Dear colleagues,

Welcome to our first October 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

• Programme Officer (IWRM) International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (Colombo, Sri Lanka) Deadline: 12 October
• Project Manager China, Agora Energiewende (Berlin, Germany) Deadline: 13 October
• Senior Ecosystems Management Specialist, Green Climate Fund (GCF) (Songdo, Incheon City, South Korea) Deadline: 13 October
• Project Manager, International, Energy Data and Modelling, Agora Energiewende (Berlin, Germany) Deadline: 13 October 
• Head of Project (Integrated Water Resource Management & Rural Livelihoods), Welthungerhilfe (El Fasher, Sudan) Deadline: 13 October
• Research Associate (SDGs), Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) (Bangkok, Thailand) Deadline: 16 October
• Intern, Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) (Groningen and/or Rotterdam, Netherlands) Deadline: 20 October
• Project Manager, United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) (Bangui, Central African Republic) Deadline: 20 October
• Research Officer (Sanitation Learning Hub), Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (Brighton, United Kingdom) Deadline: 23 October 
• UEA John Innes Foundation Fellow in Sustainable Development, University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) Deadline: 23 October
• Senior Policy Advisor for Climate, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: 24 October
• Collaborative Water Planning Project Manager, Harney County Watershed Council (Home-Based / Remote) Deadline: 25 October
• Africa Oceans Strategy Director, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) (Mombasa, Kenya) Deadline: 31 October
• Senior NKE - Water Quality Expert (International), Niras (Kenya) Deadline: 1 November
• Team Leader (International), Niras (Kenya) Deadline: 1 November
• Senior Expert Consultant to co-author/co-edit the 2nd edition of the Global Land Outlook, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Home-based) Deadline: 1 November
• Call for Applications: Fellowships for Women, Faculty for the Future 2020 - 2021, The Schlumberger Foundation (Various Locations) Deadline: 7 November
• PhD Fellowship Opportunity: Food Technologies and Food Security, University of Colorado Boulder (Colorado, USA) Deadline: 1 December
• Intern, Environment Affairs, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (Bangkok, Thailand) Deadline: 31 December
• International Climate Protection Fellowships, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) Deadline: 1 March 2020
• Junior Analyst - Energy and Environment, China Policy (Beijing, China) Deadline: ASAP
• Specialist (Environmental Resilience), World Economic Forum (WEF) (New York, NY, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• WASH Infrastructure Specialist, Splash (Kolkata, India) Deadline: ASAP
• Climate Adaptation & Resilience Specialist, S&P Global (London or New York, Various) Deadline: ASAP
• Research Assistant (part-time 20 hours per week) Risk and Resilience (RISK) Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (Vienna, Austria) Deadline: ASAP
• Staff Associate (Climate), Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia University) (Palisades, NY, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• Policy Advisor on Adaption and Resilience, IISD (Ottawa, Canada) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found
• Post Doc, Climate or Environmental Science, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management gGmbH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Deadline: Until Suitable Applicant is Found

Training opportunities, online courses, and graduate programs

• MOOC: Free Environmental Justice MOOC, Future Learn, Begins 14 October
• Mini e-course: How to review IPCC Assessment Reports - webinars and guidance for climate experts, Future Climate for Africa (FCFA), 15 October and 22 October 14:30-15:25 CEST
• Training Course: Science Communication - Communicating to non-scientists (University of Nairobi, Chiromo Campus, Nairobi, Kenya) 28-31 October
• Training Workshop under ICAR-HRM Programme on “Advances in Simulation Modeling and Climate Change Research towards Knowledge Based Agriculture”, Centre for Environment Science and Climate Resilient Agriculture (CESCRA), Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) (New Delhi, India) 13 November - 3 December
• Landscape Governance Course 2020, Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation (Scholarships available) (Wageningen, Netherlands) 30 March-10 April 2020, Scholarship Application Deadline: 15 October
• Climate Change and Development Short Course 2020, School of International Development, University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) 11-15 May 2020

Calls for abstracts, proposals, and papers

• Call for Session Proposals and Abstracts: Adaptation Futures 2020 (27-30 April 2020, New Delhi, India) Deadline: 31 October 2019
• Call for Abstracts: 6th International Symposium on Knowledge and Capacity for the Water Sector (27-29 May 2020, Delft, Netherlands) Deadline: 14 November 2019
• Call for Session Proposals: Sustainability Research and Innovation (SRI2020) (14-17 June 2020, Brisbane, Australia) Deadline: 15 November

Upcoming conferences and events

• 4th International Conference on Regional Climate (ICRC) - Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) 2019 (Beijing, China) 14-18 October
• Climate Chance Summit Africa 2019 (Accra, Ghana) 16-18 October
• NCSE 2020 Annual Conference (Washington, DC, USA) 6-9 January 2020
• ISRTC 2020: International Sustainability Resources & Technology Conference (Muscat, Oman) 10-12 February 2020
• Adaptation Futures 2020 (New Delhi, India) 27-30 April 2020
• FRIAR 2020: 7th International Conference on Flood and Urban Water Management (Valencia, Spain) 11-13 May 2020
• Dresden Nexus Conference (Dresden, Germany) 3-5 June 2020
• Sustainability Research and Innovation 2020 (Brisbane, Australia) 14-17 June 2020