Dear colleagues,

Welcome to our first November 2020 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

• Programme Management Assistant, United Nations Environment Programme (Geneva, Switzerland) Deadline: 13 November
• Internship: Economic Affairs, Disaster Risk Reduction, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) (Bangkok, Thailand) Deadline: 13 November 
• Director (Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability), Pacific Community (SPC) (Noumea, New Caledonia) Deadline: 15 November
• Table Mountain Water Source Partnership Project Manager, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) (Cape Town, South Africa) Deadline: 15 November
• GEF International Waters (Project Development and Program Management) Specialist, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (Bangkok, Thailand) Deadline: 15 November
• PhD Opportunity: Urban Flood Monitoring and Forecasting Using State of the Art Computational Intelligence, Coventry University (Coventry, United Kingdom) Deadline: 15 November
• Internship: Investments in resilience and social capital: shifting the resourcing, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) (Stockholm, Sweden) Deadline: 16 November
• Internship: Advancing evaluation of gender and social equality outcomes in WASH, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) (Stockholm, Sweden) Deadline: 16 November
• Technical Specialist (International Consultant), United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (Dakar, Senegal) Deadline: 17 November
• Research Fellow (Climate, Sustainability and Inequality), Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) (Stockholm, Sweden) Deadline: 18 November
• Internship: Climate Intern (Global Development Policy and Learning Team), InterAction (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: 18 November
• Consultant: Consultant to design the “Youth & Young Water Professionals Platform of South Asia,” Global Water Partnership - South Asia (GWP-SAS) (Remote) Deadline: 20 November
• Programme Associate, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (Geneva, Switzerland) Deadline: 20 November
• PhD Opportunity: PhD Position in monitoring and modeling groundwater recharge across heterogeneous environments, University of Western Australia (Perth, Australia) Deadline: 27 November
• Programme Management Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Bangkok, Thailand) Deadline: 29 November
• Programme Management Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Nairobi, Kenya) Deadline: 29 November
• Fellow, Resources for the Future (RFF) (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: 30 November
• Programme Advisor, UNEP-DHI Centre (Hørsholm, Denmark) Deadline: 30 November
• Programme Management Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Paris, France) Deadline: 6 December
• PhD Opportunity: Regional assessment of the resilience of water supplies and environmental resilience, University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom) Deadline: 11 December
• Asia Pacific Policy Lead, Conservation International (CI) (Various) Deadline: ASAP
• Internship: Research Intern, OneWorld Sustainable Investments (Cape Town, South Africa) Deadline: ASAP
• Consultant: Climate Strategies, South Pole (Berlin, Germany) Deadline: ASAP
• Team Leaders for Climate Programme, Palladium (Various) Deadline: ASAP
• Internship: Intern (Lean, Design & Systems Thinking Research, Global Restoration Initiative) World Resources Institute (WRI) (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• Internship: Earth Data Observation, RTI International (Durham, NC, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• Future Earth Network Associate, Future Earth (Boulder, CO, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• Remote Sensing Specialist, Forest Monitoring Tasks, GAF AG (Munich, Germany) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found
• Manager, Remote Sensing and GIS, Bluesource (Remote or San Francisco, CA, USA) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found
• Postdoc Opportunity: Postdoc/Research Assistant in Ecological Modeling, The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (Laxenburg, Austria) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found

Training opportunities, courses, and calls for submissions

• Virtual Event: “Nature's Place in the Race,” Race to Zero Dialogues, Nature4Climate and IUCN (13 November, 11:45AM UTC)
• Webinar: The Climate-ADAPT Adaptation Support Tool: Practical experience and usage for policy, planning and decision making, CMCC (18 November, 11:30AM - 12:30PM UTC)
• Virtual Event: Wiki4Climate climate change edit-a-thon, Future Climate For Africa and Climate & Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) (24 November - 1 December)
• Call for Proposals: Postgraduate Scholarship: Catalyzing Climate Finance for the Southern African Development Community, Southern Africa Climate Finance Partnership (SACFP), Deadline: 30 November
• Call for Proposals: Request for Proposals on Food Security and Nutrition, The African Academy of Sciences (AAS) Deadline: 4 December
• Call for Partner Cities: Climate Smart Cities Challenge, Teknikföretagen, Viable Cities, UN-Habitat, Smart City Sweden, and Vinnova, Deadline: 22 January 2021
• Webinar: How to facilitate effective meetings on disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation, PLACARD Interchange (Self-Paced)
• 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)