Dear colleagues,

Welcome to our first January 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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Job and fellowship opportunities

• Deadline Today! Climate Change Editor, Reuters (Various) Deadline: 10 January
• Deadline Today! International Program Director (Natural Resources and Climate Change), Ford Foundation (New York, NY, United States) Deadline: 10 January 2020
• Deadline Today! Chief Operations Officer, OneWorld Sustainable Investments (Cape Town, South Africa) Deadline: 10 January
• Deadline Today! RRC-In-Charge, Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) (Jabalpur, India) Deadline: 10 January
• Deadline Today! 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
• Ruckelshaus Fellowship, Meridian Institute (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: 12 January
• WASH Officer (Emergency Response), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (Harare, Zimbabwe) Deadline: 12 January
• Student Assistant for the Climate Policy Team, Climate Analytics (Berlin, Germany) Deadline: 12 January
• Senior Researcher, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (London or Edinburgh, UK) Deadline: 13 January 2020
• Principal Water Resources Economist, African Development Bank (AfDB) (Abidjan, Ivory Coast) Deadline: 15 January
• Associate Programme Management Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Geneva, Switzerland) Deadline: 16 January
• Junior Policy Analyst (Resilience, Adaptation to Climate Change and Water), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (Paris, France) Deadline: 19 January
• Junior Environmental Economist (Resilience, Adaptation to Climate Change and Water), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (Paris, France) Deadline: 19 January
• Postdoctoral Fellow (Impact Evaluation), International Water Management Institute (IWMI) (India or Nepal, Various) Deadline: 19 January 
• Consultant, Design of a GEF PIF, Global Mechanism, Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) (Home-based) Deadline: 19 January 2020
• Senior Environment Expert for Advisory Support to SIIDCUL, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (Uttarakhand, India) Deadline: 21 January
• Call for Applications: Future Earth Asia Regional Committee, Deadline: 22 January 2020
• Senior Project Manager, United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) (Bangkok, Thailand) Deadline: 26 January
• Water Stewardship Manager, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) Deadline: 31 January
• 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
• Senior Program Officer (Climate), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: ASAP

Training opportunities, online courses, and graduate programs

• Young Scientists Summer Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (Vienna, Austria) Deadline: 11 January 2020
• Webinar: Seasonal Forecasting & Risk Management (SECLI-FIRM) 15 January 11AM UTC
• 30th Course in Climate Time Series and Risk Analysis (Bad Gandersheim, Germany) 17-21 February, Deadline to Register: 31 January
• Climate Change and Development Short Course 2020, School of International Development, University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) 11-15 May 2020

Calls for abstracts and applications

• Call for Abstracts: Soil Science Conference of Malaysia (SOILS 2020), Deadline: 31 January 2020
• Call for Applications: Keeling Curve Prize, Deadline: 10 February

Upcoming conferences and events

• OECD-PLACARD Conference: Adapting to a changing climate in the management of wildfires (Paris, France) 16-17 January
• ISRTC 2020: International Sustainability Resources & Technology Conference (Muscat, Oman) 10-12 February
• 6th International Conference on Climate Services (Pune, India) 11-13 February
• Soil Science Conference of Malaysia (SOILS 2020) (Johor Bharu, Malaysia) 7-9 April
• Adaptation Futures 2020 (New Delhi, India) 27-30 April
• FRIAR 2020: 7th International Conference on Flood and Urban Water Management (Valencia, Spain) 11-13 May
• Dresden Nexus Conference (Dresden, Germany) 3-5 June
• Sustainability Research and Innovation 2020 (Brisbane, Australia) 14-17 June