Opportunities in Sustainability

20 December 2019

Dear colleagues,

Welcome to our December installment of "Opportunities in Sustainability" - our twice-monthly email round-up of relevant opportunities from and within the sustainability community delivered straight to your inbox! This is our final "Opportunities in Sustainability" email of 2019 but we will be resuming our normal twice-monthly schedule in January 2020!

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Best regards,

The START team

Job and fellowship opportunities

• Project Officer, Tracking Progress, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) (Ottawa, ON, Canada) Deadline: 27 December
• WASH Officer, Oxfam Intermón (Bria, Central African Republic) Deadline: 29 December
• Intern, Environment Affairs, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Bangkok, Thailand) Deadline: 31 December
• Climate Policy Researcher, Oeko-Institut (Berlin, Germany) Deadline: 5 January 2020
• Policy Analyst, Agriculture and Forestry, NewClimate Institute (Cologne or Berlin, Germany) Deadline: 5 January 2020
• International Program Director (Natural Resources and Climate Change), Ford Foundation (New York, NY, United States) Deadline: 10 January 2020
• Environmental Fellows Program, Harvard University Center for the Environment (Cambridge, MA, USA) Deadline: 10 January 2020
• Science Communication Fellowship, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (Vienna, Austria) Deadline: 11 January 2020
• Senior Researcher, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (London or Edinburgh, UK) Deadline: 13 January 2020
• Consultant, Design of a GEF PIF, Global Mechanism, Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) (Home-based) Deadline: 19 January 2020
• Call for Applications: Future Earth Asia Regional Committee, Deadline: 22 January 2020
• Senior Professorship in Water Governance and Policy (Water Institute), University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON, Canada) Deadline: 28 February 2020
• International Climate Protection Fellowships, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) Deadline: 1 March 2020
• Senior Climate Resilience Analyst, ICF International (Washington, DC or New York, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• Senior Vice President (Climate Change), WWF (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• Earth Hour 2020 Intern, WWF (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• Regional Director (Africa), water.org (Nairobi, Kenya) Deadline: ASAP
• WASH Coordinator, Solidarités International (Cox, Bangladesh) Deadline: ASAP
• Director, REDD+ and AFOLU, Verra (Washington, DC Preferred, Remote Possible) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found
• Manager, Nature-Based Innovations, Verra (Washington, DC Preferred, Remote Possible) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found
• Senior Program Officer, REDD+ and AFOLU, Verra (Washington, DC Preferred, Remote Possible) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found

Training opportunities, online courses, and graduate programs

• Young Scientists Summer Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (Vienna, Austria) Deadline: 11 January 2020
• Climate Change and Development Short Course 2020, School of International Development, University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) 11-15 May 2020

Calls for abstracts, proposals, and papers

• Call for Proposals: APN’S Collaborative Research for Early-Career Scientists (CRECS) Small Grants Programme, Deadline: 5 January 2020
• Call for Abstracts: Soil Science Conference of Malaysia (SOILS 2020), Deadline: 31 January 2020

Upcoming conferences and events

• NCSE 2020 Annual Conference (Washington, DC, USA) 6-9 January 2020
• ISRTC 2020: International Sustainability Resources & Technology Conference (Muscat, Oman) 10-12 February 2020
• 6th International Conference on Climate Services (Pune, India) 11-13 February 2020
• Soil Science Conference of Malaysia (SOILS 2020) (Johor Bharu, Malaysia) 7-9 April 2020
• Adaptation Futures 2020 (New Delhi, India) 27-30 April 2020
• FRIAR 2020: 7th International Conference on Flood and Urban Water Management (Valencia, Spain) 11-13 May 2020
• Dresden Nexus Conference (Dresden, Germany) 3-5 June 2020
• Sustainability Research and Innovation 2020 (Brisbane, Australia) 14-17 June 2020

START provides opportunities for training, research, education and networking that strengthen scientific skills and inspire leadership for advancing solutions to critical sustainability challenges.

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