Gold Standard Foundation is looking for a Senior Officer, Growth Delivery Team

Senior Officer, Growth Delivery Team

Closing Date: 1pm GMT on Tuesday 6th January 2026

Location: UK (work from home contract)

Level: mid-level role with 4 to 7 years relevant experience

We’re looking for a highly organised, proactive and assertive Senior Officer to act as the connective tissue across the Growth Division at Gold Standard.

This role will appeal to someone who loves bringing order, discipline and clarity to ambitious teams, someone who thrives on building processes from scratch, driving delivery, and keeping complex cross-functional work on track.

It’s an exciting opportunity to create a new function within our Growth division from the ground up, partner closely with senior leadership, and help shape how teams across our Growth division delivers on major strategic priorities, including the development of our new product suite and our organisational CRM.

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:

• Acting as the operational “connective tissue” across the Growth Division, ensuring alignment, reducing silos, and enabling the team to meet its objectives
• Leading work planning and budget management processes across the division
• Creating and implementing delivery processes, templates, workflows and reporting rhythms
• Taking ownership of the organisational CRM for the Growth team, including system setup, coordination with stakeholders, and ongoing maintenance
• Coordinating cross-functionally, including representing the Growth team in cross-organisation delivery groups
• Packaging, articulating and presenting reporting outputs, dashboards and progress updates
• Bringing structure and discipline to a high-ambition, ideas-driven team
• Supporting ad-hoc tasks (e.g., logistics for key meetings) where needed, in line with the “roll up your sleeves” culture of the team
• Helping build the function from the ground up and continuously improving systems based on what works

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

Must Have

• Strong hands-on project coordination, programme delivery or operational support experience
• Ability to build structure and processes from scratch
• Assertiveness and confidence working with senior stakeholders
• High accountability and proactive, solutions-oriented mindset
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to apply learnings and package insights clearly
• Experience working with Project Management and CRM systems (any platform; multiple is ideal)
• Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., Asana, Smartsheet),
• Clear and fluent communication in English
• Resilience and comfort operating with ambiguity
• Ability to work across teams with differing priorities
• Commitment to integrity

Nice to have:

• Experience in carbon markets or corporate sustainability
• Experience comparing or selecting CRM tools
• Programme or operations experience within NGO or private sector environments

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 correct right to work documents 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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