Head of Standards

1 month ago


London, United Kingdom Climate Bonds Initiative Full time

**Head of Standards**

**Reporting to: Director of Technical Development**

**Responsible for: Standards team**

**Salary: £60-70,000 per annum DOE**

**Are you a dynamic and motivated sustainability expert who can contribute to shaping our continued success?**

The Climate Bonds Standards Team defines sector specific decarbonisation pathways and identifies the levers to enable entities operating in those sectors to reach net zero.

As an excellent communicator you will be collaborating with other senior staff members and the CEO to the direction and deliverables of the Standards Team; defining the strategy and direction of the team, amplifying the work of the team, overseeing the delivery of its programme of work, establishing internal and external partnerships, and helping to secure funding to resource it.

This is a fantastic opportunity to affect real change and facilitate the financial flows that are essential to enabling all sectors of the economy to transition to a low carbon, resilient and sustainable future.

**What you'll be doing...**
- Overseeing and managing the work of the team to develop, maintain, and update technically accurate, scientifically supported, consistent, rigorously defined sector criteria.
- Leading, mentoring, and developing the Standards team, and working to amplify its work both internally and externally.
- Supervising of the three core teams (Industry, Energy, and Agriculture), producing the supporting plan to deliver their work in the agreed time frame, and planning and mobilising the appropriate resources to achieve it.
- Ensuring that robust engagement plans are designed and executed to complement and socialise the work of the teams with external stakeholders.
- Supporting collaboration with various internal teams including Certifications, Markets Intelligence, Taxonomy, and Policy to ensure the proliferation of the sector criteria throughout all Climate Bonds output.
- Management of the Certification and Standards Scheme Board.
- Contributing to funding proposals, providing technical content where necessary
- Influencing external Standards to align where possible

**Requirements**:
**We would love to hear from you if...
- You can demonstrate extensive experience in a relevant role
- You're an excellent communicator with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively at all levels with strong stakeholder management expertise
- You have strong leadership and mentoring capabilities combined with excellent organisational skills with a strong attention to detail
- You can manage, coordinate and prioritise across multiple tasks, projects, and deadlines.
- You're an excellent strategic, analytical, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills, with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound decisions under pressure.
- Based within +/-3 hours of Central European Time zone and fluent in English

**Benefits**
- Impactful responsibilities from the day you join with responsibility for your own learning curve, the role is what you make of it and the possibilities depend on you.
- Amazing opportunities for career progression and structured career development - we’ll work with you to explore your learning development and career potential
- We offer a structured and bespoke induction programme specifically suited to the team you’ll be joining and the specific role you’ll be doing. During your first few months, you’ll be given all the training you need to succeed in your role.
- An international and diverse work atmosphere
- The chance to be part of our rapid growth and play a key role in the next exciting phase of Climate Bonds Initiative journey
- Everyone that joins us is given the opportunity to undertake our signature GSS+ Bonds Training, which is recognised and certified by CPD.



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