GRI is enabling a more sustainable future.

GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) is an independent, international organization that helps businesses and other organizations take responsibility for their impacts, by providing them with the global common language to communicate those impacts. Used by more than 10,000 organizations in over 100 countries, the GRI Standards remain the most widely used sustainability reporting standards globally.

GRI plays a unique role in the global drive to create a sustainable future for all. Sustainability reporting enables transparency and helps markets function more efficiently, supporting better decisions that create sustainable benefits for everyone.

How would joining the GRI Standards Division enhance your career?


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    Most widely
    used standards

    GRI creates the global common language for organizations to report their impacts – which enables informed dialogue and decision making around those impacts

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    Work with
    real impact

    GRI exists to help organizations be transparent and take responsibility for their impacts so that we can create a sustainable future

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    Personal &
    Professional Growth

    GRI is at the forefront of developing the global best practice in impact reporting and enhancing career options

By providing a comprehensive and widely applicable framework for reporting, GRI makes it possible for organizations to report on their impacts in a way that enables comparisons and creates transparency. It also supports responsible investing and targeted policymaking, paving the way
for a sustainable future.

- Eelco van der Enden, CEO GRI


The GRI Standards Division is currently a team of 26 people and is expected to double in size this year. It is a high-performing team, with high technical excellence and passion for sustainability and corporate transparency. The team works to enable any organization – large or small, private or public – to understand and report on their impacts on the economy, environment and people in a comparable and credible way.

Joining the GRI Standards Division is a tremendous career opportunity, serving as a strong platform for your time with GRI and for the future of your career. You’ll benefit from the Institute's credibility and recognition built over the past 25 years, and from the personal and professional benefits that come with being part of the team that shapes standards in the quickly evolving field of ESG/sustainability.

What else might interest you about joining the team at GRI?

You'll have flexibility

GRI supports flexible working, and also offers access to co-working spaces globally

You'll learn & grow

With the GRI Academy, you'll have free access to training and personal development platforms (with the possibility to become GRI-certified),
as well as access to mental health/wellbeing resources

You'll find balance

You'll have 36 vacation days per calendar year, in addition to public holidays

You'll be supported

GRI will make contributions to your pension and healthcare

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This search is being managed by Acre's Thaddeus Tan and Declan Murphy, in our Amsterdam office.

Diversity & Inclusion at Acre

Diversity drives innovation and accelerates businesses and enterprises toward their missions. As such, we are wholly committed to partnering with clients and candidates alike to foster a more inclusive, sustainable future for generations to come.

Acre is committed to increasing diversity and maintaining a progressive and inclusive workplace, both for ourselves and for the organisations we support. It is important to us that we offer equal opportunities in the recruitment processes that we run. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status or whether or not they have a disability.

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