Dear colleagues,

Welcome to our second July 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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The START team

Job and fellowship opportunities

• Deadline Today! Programme Assistant (Ecosystem-based Adaptation), International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: 29 July 
• Training Specialist (IWRM), United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Remote) Deadline: 30 July
• Natural Resource Management Officer, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) Deadline: 30 July
• Environmental Engineer, The World Bank (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: 31 July
• Senior Environmental Specialist, The World Bank (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: 31 July
• Internship: Intern, Nature-Based Solutions, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (Brussels, Belgium) Deadline: 31 July 
• Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor in Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) Deadline: 31 July
• Fellowship: SN Bose Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (India) Deadline: 31 July 
• Fellowship: CSIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (India) Deadline: 31 July
• Intern, Natural Sciences Sector, Field, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (Various) Deadline: 31 July
• Professional Development Grants, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) (Various) Deadline: 1 August
• Research and Innovation Officer (Future Earth / ISE), George Mason University (Fairfax, VA, USA) Deadline: 4 August 2020
• Disaster Risk Assessment Specialist (Retainer), United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) (Remote) Deadline: 5 August
• Senior Climate Change Specialist, The World Bank (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: 5 August
• Programme Management Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Nairobi, Kenya) Deadline: 5 August
• Senior Researcher: Nature-Climate Policy Lead, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (London, UK) Deadline: 6 August
• Programme Management Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Geneva, Switzerland) Deadline: 7 August
• Associate Programme Management Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Nairobi, Kenya) Deadline: 7 August
• Environmental and Social Development Specialist, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) (Bangkok, Thailand) Deadline: 8 August
• Project Lead, Energy Policy Southeast Asia, Agora Energiewende (Bangkok, Thailand) Deadline: 9 August
• Country Project Officer, Global Water Partnership - Southern Africa (GWP-SA) (Maseru, Lesotho) Deadline: 10 August
• Principal Water Resources Management and Development Officer, African Development Bank (AfDB) (Nairobi, Kenya) Deadline: 13 August
• Principal Research Fellow (Climate and Sustainability Programme), Overseas Development Institute (ODI) (London, UK) Deadline: 14 August
• Associate Programme Management Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Geneva, Switzerland) 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
• Call for Applications: Fellow Programme, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) (Potsdam, Germany) Deadline: 23 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 
• 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
• Senior Program Manager, Verra (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found

Training opportunities, courses, and calls for submissions

• Webinar: Pushing Forward a Green Recovery: the Private Sector Perspective, Bird Life (30 July, 12:30PM GMT+1)
• Call for Book Chapters: On "Remote Sensing of Agriculture and Land Cover/Land Use Changes in South/Southeast Asian Countries" Deadline: 31 July
• Webinar: What does the Paris Agreement’s transparency framework mean for LDCs?, IIED (4 August, 11:00AM - 12:00PM GMT+1)
• 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