Textile Exchange is a global non-profit driving beneficial outcomes for climate and nature across the fashion, apparel, and textile industry. We guide a growing community of brands, manufacturers, and material producers towards more purposeful production, right from the start of the supply chain.  

By 2030, our goal is to guide the industry to drive a 45% reduction in the greenhouse gas emissions within fiber and raw material production. To get there, we are keeping our focus holistic and interconnected, accelerating the adoption of practices that improve the state of our water, soil health, and biodiversity too. 

For real change to happen, everyone needs a clear path to positive impact. That’s why Textile Exchange believes that approachable, step-by-step instruction paired with collective action can change the system to make preferred materials and fibers an accessible default, mobilizing leaders through attainable strategies, proven solutions, and a driven community.  

To learn more, visit TextileExchange.org.  

Joining our team 

We are a globally distributed, fully remote team spanning over 20 countries and united by our commitment to driving positive change in the fashion, apparel, and textile industry.  

We leverage our collective strengths to tackle climate challenges and advance key environmental goals. Collaborating with farming groups, processors, brands, retailers, and environmental experts worldwide, we address critical issues shaping the future of this industry. 

Joining our team means becoming part of a cutting-edge global non-profit dedicated to amplifying impact. Textile Exchange offers competitive compensation, including paid time off, discretionary annual bonuses, learning opportunities, and more.  

Like all roles within our organization, this position is remote, reflecting our US-based yet fully global and home-based structure. Your key colleagues will be mainly based in the UK and Italy. Other direct team members are based in the US. Candidates must be available to work across European time zones.

Job Summary

The Impact Data & Measurement Analyst will support:

• The Impact Measurement Manager and Impact Data & Measurement Lead with the development of its impact measurement methodologies for our “LCA+” impact areas, through research, collaboration with internal teams and expert organizations.
• The Impact Measurement Manager with the maintenance and revisions of the Textile Exchange Climate+ dashboards. This will involve environmental impact data manipulation and modelling.
• The LCA manager with the development and release of our lifecycle assessment studies for different fibers and materials.
• Internal colleagues by providing subject matter expertise on frameworks such as SBTN, GHG Protocol, soil carbon measurement for internal colleagues as well as relevant external stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will have experience working with impact data methodologies, including methodologies for nature-related impacts, an understanding of lifecycle assessments for the textile industry and reporting frameworks such as SBTN, GHG Protocol and TNFD. The candidate does not need to have worked on developing targets or methodologies for environmental impact progress tracking, however, exposure to this would be highly beneficial.

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Support environmental impact modelling, this includes GHG, water and biodiversity modelling related to Textile Exchange’s Climate+ strategy.
• Maintain regular Climate+ progress reporting, including maintenance of dashboards (with support from Data & Technology department).
• Support efforts to identify and integrate data sources that will be used for industry impact measurement (the “LCA+ equation”). This includes identifying and addressing the industry’s key impact data gaps for fibers and materials, in partnership with relevant organizations or Textile Exchange departments.
• Support the iteration and revisions to our Climate+ Biodiversity dashboard, this will be informed by our wider Nature Strategy work and will involve the use of spatial datasets and maps.
• Support the maintenance of Textile Exchange’s Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Library and the development of Textile Exchange’s Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies.
• Support the ongoing development of the methodologies and data inputs for Textile Exchange’s Impact Tools: Materials Impact Explorer and the Fiber and Materials Matrix.
• Provide subject matter expertise into external working groups and organizations developing and evolving industry standards for target-setting; impact measurement methodologies; and impact accounting protocols, including Cascale’s Materials Sustainability Index (MSI), the GHG Protocol, Science-Based Targets for Nature, and emerging soil carbon measurement protocols.
• Ensure that you stay up to date on the landscape of impact data and methodologies relevant to fibers and materials, including industry best practices around impact accounting and measurement protocols. Help to connect/embed best practices into Textile Exchange’s programs and translate and share findings with the broader membership and industry.

Minimum Experience and Qualifications 

• 1-3 years previous experience, ideally in a role focused on impact data and/or measurement, (sustainability and/or apparel/fashion/textile industry connectivity preferred but not required).
• Intermediate modelling and analytics skills in Excel.
• Basic PowerPoint skills as a minimum.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills, including the ability to break down complex problems to implementable solutions with attention to detail.
• Able to work independently in a virtual workplace. Self-motivated and strong work ethic.
• Proficient computer skills and the ability to quickly learn new systems.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a remote working structure.
• Well-organized and able to manage multiple priorities and varying pressures to meet deadlines as needed.

Preferred Experience and Qualifications 

• 1-3 years of direct experience in Life Cycle Assessment methodology preferred.
• Skills and/or experience using GIS software preferred.
• Experience working in the apparel/textile industry preferred but not required.
• Experience working with nature-related methodologies preferred but not required.
• Familiarity with Scope 3 (value chain) emissions accounting preferred but not required.

Employment Package

 •   Reports to: Manager, Impact Measurement
 •   Full-Time Position, 40 Hours a Week
 •   Location: Virtual/Remote
 •   Annual Salary Range: $56,000 – $66,000 USD
 •   To be filled as soon as possible (start date to be agreed between both parties).
 •   Our salary structures are location-agnostic, ensuring equal pay for the same role, irrespective of location. Final employment offers are determined based on the role, candidate experience, education, and other relevant factors, but not on location. Offers will be presented in the local currency of the candidate’s permanent residence. Benefits are tailored to the region of the candidate’s permanent residence and align with Textile Exchange’s regional employment packages.
 •   To see if we hire in your country and for more information, please visit: https://remote.com/country-explorer

How to Apply   

Please apply here with your resume and a cover letter. 

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis as they are submitted. Early application submission is strongly encouraged.    

If you have any pressing questions after completing your application, and meet the qualifications, please contact recruitment@textileexchange.org. 

Textile Exchange is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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We are looking for someone who is excited to be part of an organization doing standards in an innovative way – unifying systems, embedding outcome-focused criteria, and co-creating change with stakeholders. The CSSO will help lead the strategic transformation of our standards into a globally credible, science-informed, and regionally grounded framework that supports producers, enables brand accountability, prioritizes usability through user-centered systems, and drives measurable progress on climate, nature, and livelihoods.

While leading the Standards department, the CSSO will work in close collaboration with our Executive and Senior Leadership Teams to ensure the standards system is not only technically credible, but also practical, regionally adaptable, and aligned with stakeholder needs. This includes driving regional rollout strategies and managing implementation risk across diverse geographies and production systems.

Textile Exchange is not just a standards body, we also house one of the sector’s leading impact data and thought leadership teams, a dynamic engagement department working with 700+ members, and a growing network of producers, civil society actors, and technical experts. As part of this ecosystem, the CSSO will ensure our standards system serves as a driver of transformation across the full value chain – from Tier 4 producers to global brands.

As a senior leader reporting to the CEO, the CSSO will be responsible for maintaining the credibility, scalability, and global relevance of the standards system, while ensuring strong risk management, outcome alignment, and regional responsiveness in a rapidly evolving global context.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Vision

• Strengthen the long-term vision and direction for Textile Exchange’s unified, outcome-oriented standards system.
• Serve as the internal and external champion for standards credibility and integrity, scientific rigor, practical application, and measurable climate and nature outcomes.
• Ensure alignment with organizational strategy and our initiatives, including impact, policy, and engagement objectives.

Standards System Oversight

• Oversee the development, maintenance, and refinement of raw material and supply chain criteria, integrating both practice-based and outcome-based approaches.
• Oversee the assurance and certification system, including protocols, auditor oversight, and grievance mechanisms.
• Advance traceability and chain of custody systems, with a particular emphasis on digital traceability solutions that enhance transparency while reducing friction and unnecessary barriers to entry for supply chain actors.
• Oversee the strategic transformation of how chain of custody is designed and implemented to balance system robustness with practical accessibility, especially in complex or resource-constrained settings.
• Govern a robust and transparent claims system and develop pathways for mutual recognition with aligned standards.
• Ensure that claims and assurance models are responsive to stakeholder needs and regulatory trends, while reinforcing system integrity and trust.

Regional Rollout & Implementation

• In partnership with the engagement team, provide strategic leadership and guidance for regional rollout strategies of standards adoption—ensuring contextualized implementation across geographies, while supporting regional teams and partners in building capacity, engaging local stakeholders, and advancing accessible certification models.
• Integrate learnings from pilots, audits, and producer feedback into continuous system improvement.

Risk & Integrity Management

• Ensure risk management across all areas of the standards system that aligns with our organization wide risk management strategies.
• Identify and mitigate operational, reputational, and compliance risks, in alignment with ISEAL best practices.
• Ensure standards development remains fit-for-purpose through structured review, revision, and governance processes.

Organizational Integration & Collaboration

• Partner with the Climate & Nature Impact leadership to embed scientific and impact-aligned metrics in the standards system.
• Collaborate with the Engagement & Partnerships leadership to ensure stakeholder needs, motivations, and barriers are reflected.
• Contribute to strategic planning, communications, and leadership alignment as a key member of the senior leadership team.

External Leadership & Representation

• Represent Textile Exchange at events, global coalitions, policy forums, and technical working groups as well as with key stakeholders including standards organizations and assurance providers.
• Cultivate strategic partnerships that advance harmonization, mutual recognition, and shared impact outcomes.
• Engage funders, media, and stakeholders to advocate for Textile Exchange’s role in enabling system transformation.

Team and Organizational Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team that reflects the organization’s values and strategic priorities.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative culture that supports innovation, accountability, and professional growth.
• Promote alignment and integration with other departments (Climate and Nature, Engagement, Communications, Strategy, and Operations) to deliver results across the organization’s three core functions: Impact, Engagement, and Standards.

Qualifications & Experience

• A minimum of 10+ years of senior leadership in sustainability standards and systems, with a preference for experience in raw materials, agriculture, or land-based sourcing.
• Demonstrated experience working with or within organizations that operate across complex stakeholder landscapes – including producers, brands, governments, NGOs, and civil society.
• A strong understanding of ISEAL codes, climate/nature metrics, and multi-stakeholder governance.
• Experience with regional implementation and risk-based system rollout.
• Proven experience overseeing digital traceability platforms and the evolution of chain of custody frameworks.
• Ideally has worked with recognition frameworks and has experience with incentive or premium programs.
• Strong track record of managing multi-disciplinary, global teams.

Strategic & Leadership Skills

• Proven experience developing and executing strategy across functions, particularly in alignment with impact, policy, and stakeholder engagement goals.
• Systems thinker with strong integration skills and the ability to guide coherent cross-departmental implementation.
• Adept at navigating complexity, balancing scientific rigor with practical applicability.
• Collaborative, with a strong ability to influence and align stakeholders internally and externally.

Personal Attributes

• Mission-driven and passionate about creating meaningful, measurable change in the global textile industry.
• Committed to equity, inclusion, and co-creating solutions with global stakeholders.
• Credible and thoughtful communicator with strong facilitation and representation skills.

Key Attributes

• Visionary and systems-oriented.
• Practical and context-sensitive.
• Data- and impact-informed.
• Collaborative and inclusive.
• Courageous and transparent in decision-making.

About Textile Exchange

Textile Exchange is a global non-profit driving beneficial outcomes for climate and nature across the fashion, apparel, and textile industry. We guide a growing community of brands, manufacturers, and material producers towards more purposeful production, right from the start of the supply chain. 

By 2030, our goal is to guide the industry to drive a 45% reduction in the greenhouse gas emissions within fiber and raw material production. To get there, we are keeping our focus holistic and interconnected, accelerating the adoption of practices that improve the state of our water, soil health, and biodiversity too. 

For real change to happen, everyone needs a clear path to positive impact. That’s why Textile Exchange believes that approachable, step-by-step instruction paired with collective action can change the system to make preferred materials and fibers an accessible default, mobilizing leaders through attainable strategies, proven solutions, and a driven community.  

To learn more, visit TextileExchange.org.

Joining our team 

We are a globally distributed, fully remote team spanning over 20 countries and united by our commitment to driving positive change in the fashion, apparel, and textile industry.  

We leverage our collective strengths to tackle climate challenges and advance key environmental goals. Collaborating with farming groups, processors, brands, retailers, and environmental experts worldwide, we address critical issues shaping the future of this industry. 

Joining our team means becoming part of a cutting-edge global non-profit dedicated to amplifying impact. Textile Exchange offers competitive compensation, including paid time off, discretionary annual bonuses, learning opportunities, and more.  

Like all roles within our organization, this position is remote, reflecting our US-based yet fully global and home-based structure. Candidates must be flexible to work across all time zones as needed.

Employment Package  

• Reports to CEO
• Full Time Position, 40 Hours a Week  
• Location: Virtual/Remote
• Annual Salary Range: $190,000 – $240,000 USD
• To be filled as soon as possible (start date to be agreed between both parties).
• Our salary structures are location-agnostic, ensuring equal pay for the same role, irrespective of location. Final employment offers are determined based on the role, candidate experience, education, and other relevant factors, but not on location. Offers will be presented in the local currency of the candidate’s permanent residence. Benefits are tailored to the region of the candidate’s permanent residence and align with Textile Exchange’s regional employment packages.
• To see if we hire in your country and for more information, please visit: https://remote.com/country-explorer 

How to Apply 

Please apply here with your resume and a cover letter. 

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis as they are submitted. Early application submission is strongly encouraged.    

If you have any pressing questions after completing your application, and meet the qualifications, please contact recruitment@textileexchange.org. 

Textile Exchange is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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Textile Exchange is a global non-profit driving positive impact on climate change across the fashion and textile industry. It guides a growing community of brands, manufacturers, and farmers towards more purposeful production from the very start of the supply chain.
 

By 2030, its goal is to guide the industry to achieve a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions within fiber and raw material production. Its focus is holistic and interconnected, accelerating the adoption of practices that improve the state of our water, soil health, and biodiversity too.
 

For real change to happen, everyone needs a clear path to positive impact. That’s why Textile Exchange believes that approachable, step-by-step instruction paired with collective action can change the system to make preferred materials and fibers an accessible default, mobilizing leaders through attainable strategies, proven solutions, and a driven community.
 

At Textile Exchange, materials matter. To learn more, visit TextileExchange.org.

Working at Textile Exchange

We work remotely with a team located in 20+ countries. We are a diverse group committed to harnessing the strengths of the global textile industry to accelerate change toward climate and other key environmental goals. We work collaboratively on important environmental issues around the world by working and interacting with farming groups, processors, brands, retailers, and environmental experts in the textile and fashion industries around the world. We offer an opportunity to join a cutting-edge global environmental nonprofit and to help strengthen the impact of our organization. 


Job Summary

The temporary Assurance Communications Associate supports the Assurance team by providing administrative assistance to team members. This includes coordinating internal and external communications, as well as drafting and proofreading documents. The Associate aids the Assurance team across core activities to help ensure a consistent and credible assurance program for Textile Exchange Standards. The ideal candidate is curious, self-motivated, helpful, and highly organized. Success in the role will depend on attention to detail, resourcefulness, and professionalism. Strong English communication skills, both written and verbal, are required for this role. 

Textile Exchange is a US-based, remote-working organization with a global team.  This position will be based in the USA
and occasional work will be expected outside of normal working hours for calls with people in other parts of the world.

Duties and Responsibilities  

Document Content Reviews and Preparation 

• Support on document formatting and proofreading text for grammar, structure, and style
  in accordance with approved guidelines and SOPs.
• Support with presentation creation, formatting, and proofreading.
• Support with document creation/drafting, including coordinating necessary approvals.
• Support on transferring drafted content into formal templates and preparing files for publication.
   

Coordinating Communications with Assurance Providers

• Support communications with assurance providers via email, letters, and online communities (e.g. Textile Exchange’s “The Hub”).
• Draft and coordinate reviews/approvals of outgoing Assurance communications such as letters, forms, and website content, using prepared templates where available.

Supporting the Assurance Communications and Systems Team

• Support on coordinating virtual meetings, calls, webinars, and meetings with assurance stakeholders (both internal and external) as well as notetaking.
• Assist with the tracking and management of information about assurance providers in various systems, including data entry (e.g. SharePoint, Salesforce).
• Work proactively to give key reminders of upcoming activities and priorities to the team, including cross-departmentally where needed.
• Support the team with routine tasks as required.

Minimum Experience and Qualifications   

• Based in a North American time zone; preference for central or eastern time zones, with flexibility to communicate with multiple time zones outside of standard working hours.
• Ability to work remotely/from home.
• Ability to work autonomously in a flexible, yet fast-paced culture and complex organizational structure. 
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, including strong skills in Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Strong proficiency in English, with excellent grammar and writing skills, particularly for technical writing.
• Strong communications skills, including the ability to engage and collaborate respectfully and effectively with team members across the globe.
• Ability to synthesize and present complex information in a simple, meaningful way.
• Detail-oriented, logical, systematic, methodical, and highly organized, with an excellent eye for detail and passion for problem solving.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the understanding of discretion and confidentiality.
• meeting deadlines and sharing progress regularly. Comfortable with ambiguity and changing direction/priorities.
• Strong work ethic and self-motivated.

• Strong team player.
• The ability to stay calm under pressure, while maintaining a sense of urgency and efficiency when appropriate.

Preferred Experience and Qualifications  

• Additional language(s).
• College/University degree (B.A. or B.S. or equivalent).
• Knowledge of styles and advanced formatting features of Microsoft Word.
• Experience with Salesforce, ClickUp, and Sharepoint.
• Previous experience working in international context, scheduling across multiple time zones.
• One to two years of certification body, supply chain, or textile industry experience.
• Previous experience working with or knowledge of Textile Exchange standards.
• Previous experience in online and/or in-person customer service.

Employment Package  

• Reports to: Manager, Assurance Communications and Systems
• Full Time Temporary Position, 32-40 Hours a Week
• Location: Virtual/Remote, preferred to be based in a central or eastern North American time zone  
• Hourly Range: $27-$31
• Start Date: As Soon as Available
• Duration: 6 months

How to Apply  

Please apply here and include the following:

• Resume  
• Cover Letter  

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis as they are submitted. Early application submission is strongly encouraged.   

If you have any pressing questions after completing your application, and meet the qualifications, please contact recruitment@textileexchange.org. 

Textile Exchange is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. 

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