Gold Standard Foundation is looking for an Officer, Market Intelligence

Officer, Market Intelligence

Closing Date: 1pm CEST, Tuesday 6th January 2026

Location: UK or Germany (remote working from home model)

Level: Junior role with ideally 2 to 4 years relevant work experience

Are you passionate about climate action and driven by data? Gold Standard is seeking an Officer, Market Intelligence to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of carbon markets and sustainable finance. If you thrive on uncovering market trends, delivering actionable insights, and influencing strategic decisions, this is your opportunity to make a real impact at the forefront of climate innovation.

As part of our dynamic Growth Department, you’ll provide intelligence, analysis, and advice during a transformative period for the carbon market. You’ll work closely with leadership, cross-functional teams, and external partners to ensure Gold Standard remains a global leader in high-integrity climate action.

This opportunity will excite someone who is energised by the fast-evolving world of carbon markets and climate action, along with a passion for uncovering insights from complex data and translating them into clear, actionable intelligence.

We are unable to sponsor VISAs and only candidates with the legal right to work and residency in Germany or the United Kingdom will be considered.

*Please note we reserve the right to close this role early*

WHO WE ARE:

Gold Standard is a not-for-profit organization that helps companies understand the role they should play in creating a net-zero, sustainable nature 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 delivers real impact for people and nature.

The Gold Standard Foundation was established in 2003 by WWF and 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:

• Lead the development and delivery of market intelligence to inform strategic decision-making across carbon markets and sustainability sectors.
• Manage structured reporting systems to track project pipelines and portfolio performance using internal and external data sources.
• Provide analytical support for strategic initiatives, including market assessments, competitor benchmarking, and opportunity evaluations.
• Identify and recommend high-potential markets, partnerships, and funding opportunities aligned with Gold Standard’s mission.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure intelligence outputs are relevant, timely, and actionable.
• Create compelling, data-driven insights using visualization and storytelling tailored to diverse audiences.
• Enhance organizational learning by refining tools, documenting methodologies, and building internal capacity in market analysis.
• Stay ahead of policy and market trends to maintain Gold Standard’s leadership in climate and sustainability intelligence.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• 2 to 4 years experience in market & business intelligence, including financial structuring, pricing, and competitive analysis.
• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Economics, Finance, Business, Data Analytics, Environmental Studies, or International Development) is desirable.
• Strong familiarity with market-based climate mechanisms (carbon credits, emissions reductions, certification standards).
• Experience managing and analysing complex data sets from multiple sources, delivering clear, actionable insights.
• Fluency in English.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Professional certifications or training in data analytics (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Excel advanced analytics) and/or in financial modelling, sustainable finance, or carbon markets (e.g., ICROA, GHG Protocol, CFA ESG) are desirable

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.

We are unable to sponsor VISAs and only candidates with the legal right to work will be considered.

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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