Dear colleagues,

Welcome to our second August 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

Job and fellowship opportunities

• Consultancy: Research Uptake Advisor: GAGE (Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence) (London, UK) Deadline: 26 August
• Consultant for implementing the CCBA Sustainable Landscapes Rating Tool, CIFOR (Bogor, Indonesia) Deadline: 26 August
• WASH Process Engineer, Sanivation (Naivasha, Kenya) Deadline: 30 August
• Senior Programme Management Officer, UN Environment (Nairobi, Kenya) Deadline: 5 September
• Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Gibbs Land Use and Environment Lab (GLUE) (Wisconsin, USA) Deadline: 15 September
• Five new climate-related research posts, Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich (Medway, UK) Deadline: from 10 September
• Postdoctoral Fellow in extreme precipitation projection, Temperate East Asia Regional Center (TEA-START) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China) Deadline: 29 September
• Research Training Fellowship for Developing Country Scientists (RTF-DCS) (Government of India, Ministry of Science & Technology) (Various Locations) Deadline: 30 September
• Post Doc, Climate or Environmental Science, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management gGmbH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found
• Junior Project Coordinator, BalaVikasa (Various Locations, India) Deadline: ASAP
• Project Coordinator - Water Purification Program, BalaVikasa (Various Locations, India) Deadline: ASAP
• Postdoctoral Associate, Sustainable Supply Chains, MIT (Massachusetts, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• Water and Sanitation Specialist, RTI (Washington DC, United States) Deadline: ASAP
• Junior Analyst - Energy and Environment, China Policy (Beijing, China) Deadline: ASAP
• WASH Infrastructure Specialist, Splash (Kolkata, India) Deadline: ASAP
• Staff Associate, International Research Institute for Climate Change and Society (Palisades, NY, US) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found
• Policy Advisor on Adaption and Resilience, IISD (Ottawa, Canada) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found

Training opportunities, online courses, and graduate programs

• Webinar: Engaging the private sector for reaching the NDC targets 28 August
• FCFA webinar: An Embedded Researcher approach to integrate climate information into decision-making in southern African cities 29 August
• ACDI Masters (MSc/MPhil) in Climate and Development, University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa) Deadline to apply: 31 August
• Advanced Ocean Synergy Training Course, ESA (4-8 November, Crete, Greece) Deadline: 1 September
• WISER Webinar: Ten Principles for Good Co-Production in African Weather and Climate Services 4 September
• Short Course: Securing Rights in Landscapes (23-30 October, Accra, Ghana) Deadline: 9 September
• PhD Candidate Opportunity: Responsibility Arrangements in Resilience Policy for Climate Adaptation, Delft University of Technology (Delft, Netherlands) Deadline: 18 September

Calls for abstracts, proposals, and papers

• Call for Abstracts: Adapting forests to climate change: methods, tools, and projects (Toulouse, France, 19-20 November 2019) Deadline: 31 August
• Call for Abstracts: Online Climate Conference CLIMATE2020, Integrating Mitigation & Adaptation Initiatives for a Better Management of Climate Change and Its Impacts (20-23 March 2020) Deadline: 31 August
• Call for Proposals: Nordic Climate Facility grants for innovative climate change projects, Deadline: 5 September
• Call for Abstracts: Dresden Nexus Conference (3–5 June 2020, Dresden, Germany) Deadline: 30 September
• Call for Abstracts: 6th International Symposium on Knowledge and Capacity for the Water Sector (27-29 May 2020, Delft, Netherlands) Deadline: 14 November 2019

Upcoming conferences and events

• International Mountain Conference 2019 (Innsbruck, Austria) 8-12 September
• OceanObs’19 (Honolulu,Hawaii, USA) 16-20 September
• Research to Action: The Science of Drawdown (Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA) 16-18 September
• 6th East Africa Philanthropy Conference (Arusha, Tanzania) 25-26 September
• 4th International Conference on Regional Climate (ICRC) - Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) 2019 (Beijing, China) 14-18 October
• Climate Change Summit Africa 2019 (Accra, Ghana) 16-18 October
• NCSE 2020 Annual Conference (Washington, DC, USA) 6-9 January 2020
• Adaptation Futures 2020 (New Delhi, India) 27-30 April 2020