Dear colleagues,

Welcome to our December 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! This is our final "Opportunities in Sustainability" email of 2020 but we will be resuming our normal twice-monthly schedule in January 2021!

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• PhD Scholarship Opportunity: PhD in Sustainability Science (Ghana), Lund University (Lund, Sweden) Deadline: 18 December
• PhD Scholarship Opportunity: PhD in Sustainability Science (Uganda case), Lund University (Lund, Sweden) Deadline: 18 December 
• PhD Scholarship Opportunity: PhD in Sustainability Science (Zimbabwe case), Lund University (Lund, Sweden) Deadline: 18 December 
• Programme Officer (Transboundary Water Cooperation Department), Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) (Stockholm, Sweden) Deadline: 21 December
• Part-Time Position: Junior Project Officer, Josh's Water Jobs (Remote) Deadline: 22 December
• Associate Project Officer (Science), United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) (Paris, France) Deadline: 23 December
• Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, The World Bank (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: 23 December
• Programme Management Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Nairobi, Kenya) Deadline: 23 December
• Program Officer (Urban Resilience and Nature-based Development), ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability East Asia Secretariat (Beijing, China) Deadline: 23 December
• Program Manager, Beijing Office , ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability East Asia Secretariat (Beijing, China) Deadline: 23 December
• Programme Analyst, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Nairobi, Kenya) Deadline: 25 December
• Principal Water Resources Economist, African Development Bank (AfDB) (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire) Deadline: 26 December
• Fellowship Opportunity: Research Fellow, Urban Green Infrastructure, Wageningen University & Research (Wageningen, Netherlands) Deadline: 27 December
• Senior Programme Management Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Nairobi, Kenya) Deadline: 27 December
• Team Leader (Sri Lanka & Maldives Climate Change Adaptation Project), International Water Management Institute (IWMI) (Malé, Maldives) Deadline: 27 December
• Regional Water and Wetlands Programme Coordinator for Central and West Africa, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (Dakar, Senegal) Deadline: 28 December
• Deputy Director General (Research for Development), International Water Management Institute (IWMI) (Various) Deadline: 29 December
• Program Officer (Water), Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) (Rotterdam, Netherlands) Deadline: 30 December
• Regional Forests and Climate Change Lead, Central Africa, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) (Kigali, Rwanda) Deadline: 31 December
• Senior Water Specialist, Green Climate Fund (GCF) (Songdo, South Korea) Deadline: 1 January 2021
• Senior Land Use and Forests Officer, Standards Development, The Gold Standard Foundation (Remote; Europe or Americas-based) Deadline: 6 January 2021
• Applied Researcher (Integrated Catchment Management and/or Water Resource Management), Institute of Natural Resources NPC (INR) (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa) Deadline: 7 January 2021
• PhD Opportunity: Smart monitoring technology of drinking water quality for improved private water supply management, The James Hutton Institute (Aberdeen, United Kingdom) Deadline: 8 January 2021
• PhD Opportunity: Unpicking the drivers of spatial-temporal (palaeo)hydroclimatic variation in southern Africa, University of Leicester (Leicester, UK) Deadline: 11 January
• Internship: Intern, The Green Institute (Remote) Deadline: 19 January
• Doctoral and Postdoc Fellowship Opportunities: Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa, SSRC (Various) Deadline: 1 February 2021
• Call for Applications: 2021 Keeling Curve Prize, Global Warming Mitigation Project (Various) Deadline: 10 February 2021
• Fellowship Opportunity (for African Nationals): Postdoc Fellowships, DAAD climapAfrica: Africans in climate research, Deadline: 15 February 2021
• Fellowship Opportunity: ZUKOnnect Fellowships for Scholars from Africa, Asia and Latin America, Zukunftskolleg, Universität Konstanz (Konstanz, Germany) Deadline: 24 February 2021
• PhD Opportunity: Satellite-based monitoring and management of agricultural water use, University of Manchester (Manchester, United Kingdom) Deadline: ASAP
• Water Risk Filter Officer, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) (Berlin, Germany) Deadline: ASAP
• Program Manager (Asia), Imagine H2O (Singapore, Singapore) Deadline: ASAP
• Postdoc Opportunity: “Robust River Basin Planning under Climate and Socio-Economic Changes,” ETH Zürich (Zürich, Switzerland) Deadline: ASAP
• Asia Pacific Policy Lead, Conservation International (CI) (Various) Deadline: ASAP
• Internship: Research Intern, OneWorld Sustainable Investments (Cape Town, South Africa) Deadline: ASAP
• Team Leaders for Climate Programme, Palladium (Various) Deadline: ASAP
• Internship: Earth Data Observation, RTI International (Durham, NC, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• Future Earth Network Associate, Future Earth (Boulder, CO, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• Senior Program Officer, Agriculture Innovations, Verra (Washington, DC, USA; Remote during COVID-19) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found
• Manager, Forest Carbon Innovations, Verra (Washington, DC, USA; Remote during COVID-19) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found
• Climate Change Adaptation Experts, ICF (Colombo, Sri Lanka) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found
• Remote Sensing Specialist, Forest Monitoring Tasks, GAF AG (Munich, Germany) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found

Training opportunities, courses, and calls for submissions

• Webinar: Impacts of COVID-19 and recovery packages on climate change mitigation action, RFF-CMCC-NAVIGATE (17 December, 2:00PM UTC)
• Webinar: Recommendations for Preparing Distributed Energy Resources Roadmaps and Plans, Climatelinks (17 December, 4:00PM UTC)
• Webinar: The role of air circulation and cooling demand for planning universal household electrification in sub-Saharan Africa, CMCC (21 December, 2:00PM UTC)
• 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)
• Save the Date: Discussion on the barriers and enablers to improving Southern leadership and how these lessons can inform improved design models for future programmes, Future Climate For Africa (FCFA) (19 January 2021, 3:00PM-4:30PM SAST) For queries, contact info@futureclimateafrica.org