Dear colleagues,

Welcome to our first 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
 

• Researcher - Water Quality Modelling (Antimicrobial Resistance), International Water Management Institute (Colombo, Sri Lanka) Deadline: 11 August
• Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam nationals: Water & Climate Monitoring Specialist, Mekong River Commission (MRC) (Vientiane, Laos) Deadline: 15 August
• International Climate Change Consultant, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (Budapest, Hungary) Deadline: 16 August
• Senior Water and Sanitation Analyst, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) (Pakse, Laos) Deadline: 18 August
• Investment Operations Specialist-Water, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (Beijing, China) Deadline: 19 August
• Director, International Partnerships and Development, Climate-KIC (Preferably based in Amsterdam or London but open across EIT Climate-KIC offices) Deadline: 23 August
• Researcher - Transboundary Resources, University of Oxford (Oxford, UK) Deadline: 23 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
• 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
• Junior Project Coordinator, BalaVikasa (Various Locations, India) Deadline: ASAP
• Project Coordinator - Water Purification Program, BalaVikasa (Various Locations, India) Deadline: ASAP
• Director, Climate Finance and Science, University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON, Canada) Deadline: ASAP
• Postdoctoral Associate, Sustainable Supply Chains, MIT (Massachusetts, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• WASH Project Manager, Solidarités International (Monguno, Nigeria) 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
• Senior Sourcing Freelancer African Projects, South Pole (Location Flexible) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found
• 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

• 8th UN Summer Academy (26-30 August, Bonn, Germany) Deadline to apply: 12 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
• 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 Papers: Online Climate Conference CLIMATE2020, Integrating Mitigation & Adaptation Initiatives for a Better Management of Climate Change and Its Impacts (20-23 March 2020) Deadline for Abstract Submission: 31 August
• Call for Proposals: Nordic Climate Facility grants for innovative climate change projects, Deadline: 5 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
• Research to Action: The Science of Drawdown (Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA) 16-18 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