Dear colleagues,

Welcome to our first 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! 

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The START team

Job and fellowship opportunities

• Deadline Today! Water Resources Manager, GCS (Rivonia, South Africa) Deadline: 17 July
• Deadline Today! Head, Sustainable Mobility Program, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability (Bonn, Germany) Deadline: 17 July
• NSF-funded Graduate Research Assistant in Hydrology, University of Colorado-Boulder (Boulder, CO, USA) Deadline: 18 July
• Communications Officer (Social media and Analytics), Wetlands International (Ede-Wageningen, Netherlands) Deadline: 19 July
• Postdoc Urban Water Management, Wageningen University & Research (Wageningen, Netherlands) Deadline: 20 July
• Technical Assistant, Global Water Partnership - Central Africa (GWP-CAF) (Yaoundé, Cameroon) Deadline: 20 July
• Consultancy: Community Based Wetland Management, The World Bank (Blantyre, Malawi) Deadline: 21 July
• Postdoctoral Research Associate (SWARM project (Impact Assessments to Support WAter Resources Management and Climate Change Adaptation for China)), University of Exeter (Exeter, UK) Deadline: 21 July
• Consultancy: Preparing a Report to Identify Potential and Innovative Financing Instruments for Drought to Make Available Related Information and Guidance for Facilitating the Access of Parties to These Instruments, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) (Remote) Deadline: 21 July
• Faculty Positions (School of Environmental Science and Engineering), Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) (Shenzhen, China) Deadline: 21 July
• Officer, Circular Development, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability (Bonn, Germany) Deadline: 22 July
• Youth Leadership Program Manager, The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) (Rotterdam, Netherlands) Deadline: 22 July
• Senior Researcher (Sustainable Solutions for Global Water Challenges), Finnish Environment Institute (Various, Finland) Deadline: 22 July
• Gender and Water Policies Consultant, United Nations World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) (Perugia, Italy) Deadline: 23 July
• Call for Applications (African Nationals): The 6th cohort of Affiliates of the African Academy of Sciences (AAS), 5 year programme Deadline: 24 July 
• Natural Resource Management Officer, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) Deadline: 30 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
• Associate Programme Management Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Nairobi, Kenya) Deadline: 7 August
• Project Lead, Energy Policy Southeast Asia, Agora Energiewende (Bangkok, Thailand) Deadline: 9 August
• Doctoral Programme: NRF Doctoral Programme, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (South Africa) Deadline: 14 August
• Call for Applications: Fellow Programme, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) (Potsdam, Germany) Deadline: 23 August
• Intern (Economic Affairs, Disaster Risk Reduction), United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) (Bangkok, Thailand) Deadline: 13 November 
• 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

• Call for Book Chapters: On "Remote Sensing of Agriculture and Land Cover/Land Use Changes in South/Southeast Asian Countries" Deadline: 31 July
• 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
• 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