Manager – Assurance Review Management

Manager – Assurance Review Management (Energy)

Closing Date: 31st January 2025

Location:  Germany, United Kingdom or India (remote)

The Gold Standard Foundation seeks a highly motivated individual to join our Standard development and Innovation team. It is a full-time position responsible for leading the assurance review of our projects with a focus on mitigation solutions under the Energy scope. The position reports to Director – Assurance Review Management.

This is a remote position  (India, Germany, UK).

WHO WE ARE:

Gold Standard is a standards body and thought leader that promotes the best that can be achieved in climate and development projects. It 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:

• Take the lead in managing project reviews aiming for GS4GG certification. This includes exciting projects within the GS4GG energy scope, such as renewable energy (RE), community services, waste management, engineered removals, and beyond.

• Bring your expertise to the table by contributing to GS's innovative digitization initiative for assurance solutions.

• Drive stakeholder engagement by leading discussions with the advisory committee on assurance matters, and gather valuable feedback from project developers, industry experts, and other key stakeholders.

• Build and manage strategic relationships with subject matter experts to continually improve and bring innovation to assurance process.

• Innovate and contribute to the development of cutting-edge ideas, concepts, and proposals for activities related to standard expansion and assurance processes.

• Foster a high-performing team for project review and assurance. Provide training, supervise, and mentor junior staff, while managing a pool of subject matter experts to ensure top-notch project quality reviews.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• 7+ years of demonstrated experience of certification or third-party auditing systems and in-depth knowledge of how they are managed, carbon project development or carbon/sustainability standards.

• Degree in environmental science/ engineering/ management or relevant discipline.

• Experience working on projects related to energy processes, preferably in renewable energy generation, household energy efficiency, waste management sectors and industrial energy efficiency. Experience in engineered removal is a plus.

• Understanding of emission reduction/ avoidance process, monitoring and verification techniques including application of technologies.

• Understanding of carbon accounting frameworks of IPCC and GHG Protocol.

• Prior experience in standards setting/ methodology development would be an asset.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work with a range of staff based all around the world.

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.

Keywords

Assurance ReviewManagementEnergyRenewable EnergyWaste ManagementCarbon ProjectSustainabilityStandard DevelopmentInnovationStakeholder EngagementSubject Matter ExpertsProject QualityRemote WorkingHome Office