Technical Communications Officer

Technical Communications Officer 

Closing Date: 12pm 21st October 2025

Location: UK (remote working model) 

Are you passionate about making complex ideas accessible and driving real impact in climate action? 

 
Gold Standard is seeking a dynamic Technical Communications Officer to join our innovative Communications Team. If you thrive on translating technical concepts into engaging stories, collaborating with experts, and amplifying the impact of climate solutions, this is the role for you! 

As the bridge between technical experts and diverse audiences, you’ll help shape the future of climate action by ensuring our pioneering methodologies, requirements, and guidance reach and inspire project developers, auditors, policymakers, and more. This is a unique opportunity to combine creativity, empathy, and big-picture thinking with a deep dive into cutting-edge climate and sustainability topics. 

This role will excite a communications professional with 2 to 4 years experience, who wants to play a pivotal role in amplifying the reach and understanding of Gold Standard’s technical innovations and who is motivated by transforming complex technical information into compelling stories and practical guidance.  

If you love making the complicated clear and engaging, we would love to hear from you. 

*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: 

• Draft and edit communications materials including blogs, case studies, training content, website content, and internal updates.  
• Adapt technical material into clear, engaging language for different audiences.  
• Prepare content for newsletters, press releases, and social media based on technical inputs.  
• Coordinate the flow of information between the Technical Division and Communications Department.  
• Track and manage timelines for communications deliverables.  
• Support the development and implementation of communication strategies for technical projects and initiatives.  
• Maintain records of technical communications outputs and assist with presentations and briefing notes. 

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR: 

• A skilled communicator with a bachelor’s degree in communications, environmental studies, international relations, or a related field.  
• 2–4 years of communications experience, ideally in sustainability, climate change, or development. Experience in carbon markets is a plus.  
• Strong writing and editing skills, with the ability to simplify complex information.  
• Excellent organizational skills and resilience under pressure.  
• Familiarity with communications tools (Mailchimp, CMS platforms, Microsoft Suite).  
• Proficiency in English; other languages are an asset. 

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.