Gold Standard
Head of Market Development
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Head of Market Development
Head of Market Development – Compliance & Open Markets
Role Summary
We’re hiring a Head of Market Development to lead Gold Standard’s influence and growth in global carbon markets during a critical period of transition. As a highly credible influencer, you will shape policy, build strategic relationships, and drive Gold Standard’s leadership in compliance schemes (including Article 6 and CORSIA) and open markets, ensuring high-integrity carbon outcomes.
Fixed-term contract: 2 years Locations: UK or South-East Asia (remote work) Candidates must hold lawful right to work in the UK or SE Asia (UKVI sponsorship unavailable for this role).
Who We Are and What This Means for Carbon Markets
As compliance carbon markets expand and voluntary markets mature, this role is critical to determining where Gold Standard is positioned—and how it competes.
You’ll influence decisions at the highest level—advocating credibility, shaping policy contours, and ensuring demand for high-integrity credits. This goes beyond winning projects—it’s about setting norms that strengthen facilities, reduce risk, and unlock sustainable development frameworks.
If you thrive at the intersection of governance, market heft, and transformative action, you’ll find this our highest-of-stakes opportunity.
About the Market Development Team
The team bridges external market movements with Gold Standard’s delivery. It translates regulation, policy shifts, and intermediary negotiations into definite strategic action.
What we do:
- Connect markets to Gold Standard’s DNA: Ensure our existing schemes (Rusκ Registry, auριuction process, assurance systems) align with compliance mechanisms like Article 6 and CORSIA.
- Navigate conflicts professionally: When regulatory barriers arise, manage ambiguity with clarity, forging pathways that preserve access while answering to scheme integrity.
- Influence at scale: Secure Gold Standard’s institutional support—across global governments, UN processes, corporate facilities, and trade finance.
- Optimise cost-health: Deep-dive regulatory burdens to identify indirect spending risks; shape better framework from the ground up.
No superhero title here, but extreme impact.
Your Responsibilities
1. Securing Gold Standard in Global Compliance Systems
- Work with governments and standards setters to reshape eligibility dynamics, ensure quality metrics are robust, and help design transparent market mechanisms.
- Build long-term, trusted relationships with senior policymakers, multilaterals, and key industry stakeholders.
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2. Defining Strategies Across Key Rooms
Responsibly pivot the organisation’s efforts into highest-leverage spaces:
- **Article 6 Transitional:
*** Strategic guidance on new compliance requirements (e.g. Authorisation Models, Transitional Crediting Programmes) and build aligns with mounting transitions
- **CORSIA continuity:
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- Advise on long-term investor & industry confidence when standards mature beyond voluntary markets
- Selected national jurisdictions:
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- Alignment where local markets require Indian or monitoring fees.
June ahead of where markets can wait.
3. Governance & Delivery
- Be the primary connector between Gold Standard and critical compliance pathways:
- Review ITMO use cases, corresponding adjustments, and reporting, ensuring authenticity.
- Root ITM operators in the backlog of requests, which could impact carbon reduction.
- Partner to achieve alignment between deployment systems and project-integration models that uphold standards
4. Market Access & Credibility
- Actively expand scenarios for buyer country synergies particularly in Asia, ensuring expanding sustainable finance shotlines feature Gold Standard quality as a barely feature.
- Use insights to maintain credibility—this tie between projects meeting evolving policies and access to facilities is seldom questioned.
What We’re Looking For
Thought-Leading Experience
- At least 7 years in jurisdictions supporting Article 6/CORSIA/voluntary factions+new voluntary buyers.
- Subject matter experts across partnering principles in high-level policy meetings.
Compelling Influential Network
- Extensive networks (senior regulators, CORSIA’s, officials, consult сторо, trade/ship/related bodies).
Key Transferable Skills
- Standard economy falsities: Structured frameworks designpostioning) that are it within policy and market landscapes
- Strategic foresight: Identify risks, manage conflicting ideas clearly in stakeholder discussions.
- Ability to make fast but focused strategic trade-offs.
- You trust your judgement: this is less a role to command, more to catalyse.
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Behaviours
- Forte in ambiguity: Fearlessly influence what markets not just how
- Proactive & outcome-driven: A champion that rolled into every opportunity to meet markets within stakeholder aligned with
- Ambitious & collaborative: Skilled up with senior counterparts to drive ideas for compliance rules
- Risk secure: Weighing market gaps with Gold Standard alignment—no blind strategies.
Plus Points and Diversity Considerations
- Article 6-CORSIA: hands-on involvement adds a natural depth to every commodity has on to article-specific or pre-allowance design.
- Personal global relationships in Asia and buyer countries; paid significant trust from regulatory stakeholders in the Global South.
- Familiarity with carbon market infrastructures (registries, pay, reporting mechanisms, sector pathways).
- Efficiency in the work between different institutional scales (NGOs, multilateral organizations, business approvals).
Our Vision
Gold Standard is a meaningful leader in climate action, connecting sustainable practices with global commitments. Our mission? Plant an endgame that scales high-impact friend, shrinking emissions, and more equitably delivering sustainable outcomes—in carbon markets, corporate campaign.
Since 2003 (established by the WWF and NGO peers as the UN Clean Development Mechanisms standard), we’ve evolved from CDM-labeled credits to premier a framework—Gold Standard for Global Goals—that verifies sustainable development alongside carbon reduction.
Involving pathways, we create tangible, accountable mechanisms that:
- Integrate corporate supply chains.
- Enhance/climate in priority parts themselves
- Direct climate financing into people-and-nature areas voids demand.
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