Associate, Technical Delivery Department
Closing Date: 5th September 2025
Location: UK (remote working)
The Gold Standard Foundation has an exciting role in our newly created Technical Delivery Team, designed to strengthen and support our teams within the Technical Division (Standard Development Management; Assurance Review Management; Corporate Frameworks; & Accreditation Oversight Management)
As an associate, you will report directly to the Head of Technical Delivery, helping to streamline processes, improve the Technical division’s efficiency, and enhance collaboration across the organisation. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact on how our technical teams operate and connect with other divisions at Gold Standard.
We’re looking for someone with ideally 1–3 years post degree experience in project coordination, programme delivery, operational support, technical support or economics. If you’re naturally analytical, highly organised, and eager to contribute to a mission-driven organisation, we’d love to hear from you.
Please note we reserve the right to close this role early
We are unable to sponsor VISAs and only candidates with the legal right to work in the UK without restrictions will be considered.
WHO WE ARE:
Gold Standard is a not-for-profit organisation that helps companies understand their role in creating a net-zero, sustainable future and provides tangible ways for them to contribute. This includes investments in their value chains, carbon credits, and other mechanisms for high-integrity climate action that deliver real impact for people and nature.
The Gold Standard Foundation was established in 2003 byWWFand other international NGOs as a best practice standard to ensure projects that reduced carbon emissions under the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) also delivered sustainable development benefits. Today, our standard, ‘Gold Standard for the Global Goals’, allows climate and development initiatives within carbon markets, corporate supply chains, and sustainable finance to manage, measure and maximise their impacts toward the Net Zero ambition of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.
WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:
• Support the coordination of technical project timelines, deliverables, and resource allocations across workstreams.
• Track day-to-day execution of technical programmes and escalate bottlenecks or delivery risks to the Head of TDO.
• Proactively manage and coordinate the schedules of the CTO and Directors in the Technical team, ensuring calendars are kept up-to-date, and conflicts are minimised.
• Assist in preparing documents, coordinate briefing papers and presentations for executive meetings, and ensure the CTO has the necessary materials.
• Assist in tracking budgets and financial forecasts for technical projects, providing input for cost tracking and reporting.
• Support procurement and vendor engagement processes under supervision, ensuring proper documentation and tracking of deliverables.
• Maintain databases, templates, trackers, and project management tools to ensure consistency and accessibility of project information.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, project management, economics or a related field.
• Ideally 1–3 years post degree experience in project coordination, programme delivery, or operational support.
• Experience in technical, climate, sustainability, or non-profit sectors is an advantage.
• Experience in using project management tools (e.g., Asana, MS Project, Smartsheet) and data analysis software (e.g., Excel, Power BI) is desirable.
• Strong analytical, coordination, and communication skills.
WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU:
• All Employees are entitled to 30 days of holiday, pro-rated for part-time Employees.
• Remote Working Contribution for remote workers
• Home office set up allowance
• A mission-driven organisation working at the leading edge of climate and sustainability.
• Rewarding work in a dynamic non-profit environment.
• A collaborative workplace within a multicultural team.
• An ambitious, agile and flexible environment.
OUR VALUES:
Pioneering - We focus on those that have the most promise to contribute to our vision and mission, bringing them to market with the requisite planning and resources.
Rigorous - We build on our reputation for quality and rigor with more robust measurement of outcomes, stronger safeguards and greater impact across the Sustainable Development Goals. Our objective is to make rigor simpler and more achievable at scale.
Collaborative - We work with key partners who share our goals and complement our strengths. Our partnership strategy aims to move beyond working opportunistically as a delivery partner in favor of collaborating in long-term strategic synergy.
Transparent - We were established to bring confidence, trust, and accountability to carbon markets. We will continue to take strides to improve transparency in our own processes, in the broader market and in non-market mechanisms
EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Gold Standard provides equal opportunity for all job applicants and employees and is committed to providing a work environment free of discrimination. We are dedicated to an inclusive culture, and we strive to create a workplace where teams of people with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, perspectives, ideas and experiences work together.
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