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! 

"Opportunities in Sustainability” will now be published on Wednesday instead of Friday. You'll still receive two issues every month - only the day of the week has changed. We are open to feedback and suggestions to make “Opportunities in Sustainability" as useful as possible to you, don’t hesitate to let us know your thoughts at info@start.org.

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Highlighted Opportunity

Workshop: Learning workshop on the EPIC model for Asian Countries, EPIC-N (Asia-Pacific Adaptation Network Forum, March 2021) Deadline: 15 September

EPIC-N, in partnership with the UN Environment’s Global Adaptation Network and START, are pleased to now offer a learning workshop on the EPIC model for Asian countries, which will be held back-to-back with the Asia-Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) Forum in March 2021. This workshop will provide a unique opportunity for collaborating pairs of individuals representing municipal governments and nearby universities to gain skills on the use of the EPIC-N model to address local sustainability challenges and return home with a work plan to implement it. 

Job and fellowship opportunities

• Senior Program Officer – Nature-based Solutions, Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) (Rotterdam, Netherlands) Deadline: 13 August
• Consultant (City Liaison & Urban Water Research), World Resources Institute (WRI) (Remote) Deadline: 13 August
• Principal Water Resources Management and Development Officer, African Development Bank (AfDB) (Nairobi, Kenya) Deadline: 13 August
• Associate Programme Management Officer, P2, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) (Geneva, Switzerland) Deadline: 14 August
• Principal Research Fellow (Climate and Sustainability Programme), Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (London, UK) Deadline: 14 August
• GIS Analyst, The Rivers Trust (UK / Remote) Deadline: 14 August
• Doctoral Programme: NRF Doctoral Programme, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (South Africa) Deadline: 14 August
• Doctoral Student in Physical Geography & Ecosystem Science, Lund University (Lund, Sweden) Deadline: 15 August
• Climate Science Lead, Green Climate Fund (GCF) (Songdo, South Korea) Deadline: 17 August
• Junior Project Officer, Wetlands International (Ede- Wageningen, Netherlands) Deadline: 20 August
• Programme Management Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Geneva, Switzerland) Deadline: 20 August
• Head of the Resilient Development Program, ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI) (Bonn, Germany) Deadline: 21 August
• African Nationals (Click Link for Eligibility): Africa Fellowship Program, The World Bank (Various) Deadline: 23 August
• Call for Applications: Fellow Programme, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) (Potsdam, Germany) Deadline: 23 August
• Understanding and advancing gender-sensitive responses to Integrated Water Resources Management, in line with SDG indicator 6.5.1, Global Water Partnership (GWP) (Remote) Deadline: 28 August
• Call for Nominations: WCRP/WWRP International Prize for Model Development 2020 Deadline: 30 September
• Intern (Economic Affairs, Disaster Risk Reduction), United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) (Bangkok, Thailand) Deadline: 13 November 
• French Speakers: Assistant (e) Suivi Evaluation et Système d’Information Géographique (SIG), Winrock International (Zinder, Niger) Deadline: ASAP
• Earth Data Observation Internship, RTI International (Durham, NC, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• Team Leader (Asia Pacific Climate Resilience Platform), Palladium (India) Deadline: ASAP
• Senior Analyst (Environment & Climate Change), IPE Global (New Delhi, India) Deadline: ASAP
• Call for Climate Experts, Palladium (Various) Deadline: ASAP
• Future Earth Network Associate, Future Earth (Boulder, CO, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• Senior Manager Policy, Rare (Bogor, Indonesia) Deadline: ASAP
• Senior Manager (Flood-Prepared Communities), Pew Charitable Trusts (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• Remote Sensing Specialist, Forest Monitoring Tasks, GAF AG (Munich, Germany) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found
• Senior Program Manager, Verra (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found

Training opportunities, courses, and calls for submissions

• Webinar: Experience sharing on long-term strategies (LTS) in least developed countries, IIED (13 August 2020, 12:00PM -1:00 PM GMT+1)
• Virtual Workshop: Virtual workshop for African early career researchers on Belmont Forum Pathways to Sustainability, Future Earth (9-10 September 2020) Deadline for Applications: 17 August
• Webinar: Reducing the Impacts of Extreme Heat: A Global Perspective, Security and Sustainability Forum (27 August 2020, 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM UCT)
• Call for Abstracts: 2nd International Conference on Geography and Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development (ICGGS 2021) (21-22 January 2021, Phuket, Thailand) Deadline: 31 August 2020
• Online Workshop: INGSA Global Week of Dialogue Science Advice & COVID-19: What are we learning?, INGSA (14-17 September)
• Call for Submissions: Special Issue of Sustainability on "Environmental Policy Design and Implementation: Toward Sustainable Society" Deadline: 30 September
• Summer School: Modelling approaches for climate risk and climate change adaptions in the context of sustainable intensification in semi-arid West Africa, The Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) (Bamako, Mali) 21-28 February 2021
• EARTH SCHOOL, UNEP and Ted-Ed
• MOOC: Free online courses in Energy, Climate Policy and Diplomacy, SOAS University of London, Various
• Online course: Partnering for Change: Link Research to Societal Challenges, University of Basel and Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, Future Learn
• Online course: Planning for Climate Change in African Cities, Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies & Erasmus University Rotterdam, United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG Africa), Self-Paced