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Opportunities in Sustainability
14 July 2021
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Dear colleagues,
Welcome to our first July 2021 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!
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Best regards,
The START team
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Jobs, fellowships, funding calls, and more
- Scholarship Opportunity: African Water Resources Mobility Network (AWaRMN) Scholarship, Intra-Africa Academic Mobility Scheme (Various) Deadline: 15 July
- Regional NBS Specialist – East Africa, Officer, Resilient Development (WCS) (Kigali, Rwanda) Deadline: 15 July
- Internship: Intern (Resilience), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (Seoul, Republic of Korea) Deadline: 15 July
- Program Manager, ICLEI (Seoul, Republic of Korea) Deadline: 16 July
- Program Officer, ICLEI (Seoul, Republic of Korea) Deadline: 16 July
- Assistant, IPCC Synthesis Report Technical Support Unit (SYR TSU), IPCC (Flexible) Deadline: 18 July
- Research Associate and Junior Research Fellow, Sikkim University (Gangtok, India) Deadline: 19 July
- Communications Assistant, Global Water Partnership - East Africa (GWP-EA) (Entebbe, Uganda) Deadline: 22 July
- African Nationals: AAS Affiliates 2021, The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) Deadline: 23 July
- Internship: Earth Observation for Water Resource Management, Space Applications Section, I, United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (Vienna, Austria) Deadline: 24 July
- Hydrological water quality mapping, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (Malawi) Deadline: 27 July
- Call for Expressions of Interest: African Research Initiative for Scientific Excellence Pilot Programme, The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) Deadline: 30 July
- Senior Energy Analyst, GreenCape (Cape Town, South Africa) Deadline: 31 July
- Research Fellow (Hydrology Geomorphology and Earth Sciences), National University of Singapore (NUS) (Singapore) Deadline: ASAP
- Internship: Intern (Land & Water), SLR Consulting (Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa) Deadline: ASAP
- Research Fellow (Hydrology Geomorphology and Earth Sciences), National University of Singapore (NUS) (Singapore) Deadline: ASAP
- Research Fellow (Water Quality), National University of Singapore (NUS) (Singapore) Deadline: ASAP
- Asia Pacific Climate Resilience Platform (APCRP) Team Leader, Chemonics (Asia, Various) Deadline: ASAP
- Senior Sourcing Manager Africa, Nature-based Solutions, South Pole (Cape Town, South Africa) Deadline: ASAP
- Senior Project Coordinator, South Pole (Mexico City, Beijing, New Delhi, Bogota, or Medellin) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found
- Internship: Intern - Water related projects, Development Alternatives (New Delhi, India) Deadline: ASAP
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Climate Resilience and Sustainability, a new interdisciplinary journal from the Royal Meteorological Society focused on understanding the implications of climate change for a sustainable environment and society, is seeking paper submissions. The journal is especially interested in submissions from authors in the Global South.
Learn more here
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Training opportunities, webinars, and events
- Webinar: Sustainable food cultures: how our appetites can transform our cities, ICLEI Africa (20 July, 12:00PM GMT)
- Webinar: The health and climate imperatives to address open burning of waste, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) (20 July, 1:00PM - 2:30PM GMT)
- Webinar: Clean Cooking Webinar: Cost-Benefit Analyses of Clean Cooking Policies and Interventions, World Health Organization (WHO) (21 July, 12:30PM - 2:00PM GMT)
- Online Course: Narrative action research for transformative transdisciplinary research, Africa Doctoral Academy (ADA) Online Winter School 2021 (26-30 July)
- Survey: Gathering of Evidence on overcoming EbA Barriers, Global Adaptation Network (GAN), Deadline: 31 July
- Online Course: An Introduction to Climate Change: Science, Politics, and Impacts, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) (16-27 August)
- Webinar: Financing the Decade of Action: progress in African cities, ICLEI Africa (17 August, 12:00PM GMT)
- Webinar: Tangible action: How local demonstration projects catalyze scaled climate action, ICLEI Africa (7 September, 12:00PM GMT)
- Training Opportunity: Train-ME Summer Schools, Nelson Mandela University, Council for Geoscience, University of Kwazulu-Natal, and Universität Greifswald (18-25 September)
- Webinar: Future-proofing urban mobility: exploring routes to resilience, ICLEI Africa (21 September, 12:00PM GMT)
- Virtual Event: Innovate4Cities 2021 Conference (11-15 October)
- Conference: XV World Forestry Congress 2021 (2-6 May 2022, Seoul, Republic of Korea)
- MOOC: NEW Certificate Course on Nature-based Solutions for Disaster and Climate Resilience, United Nations Environment Programme
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