Dear colleagues,

Welcome to our second August 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

• Understanding and advancing gender-sensitive responses to Integrated Water Resources Management, in line with SDG indicator 6.5.1, Global Water Partnership (GWP) (Remote) Deadline: 28 August
• Scholarship: Masters Scholarship for Flood Risk Management (MSc), University of Hull (Kingston upon Hull, UK) Deadline: 28 August
• Programme Manager, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (New Delhi, India) Deadline: 29 August
• Program Officer, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) (Manila, Philippines) Deadline: 30 August
• AfricaSan Ngor Commitment Monitoring Process Knowledge Management Consultancy, African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) (Remote) Deadline: 31 August
• Junior Officer ‘Urban Resilience and Climate Adaptation,’ ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability (Freiburg, Germany) Deadline: 31 August
• Officer ‘Natural Resources & Environmental Management,’ ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability (Freiburg, Germany) Deadline: 31 August
• Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor in Global Change and Environmental Sustainability, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) (Shenzhen, China) Deadline: 31 August
• Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor in Remote Sensing of the Environment, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) (Shenzhen, China) Deadline: 31 August
• Internship, Climate and Development (I), NewClimate Institute (Berlin, Germany) Deadline: 31 August
• Scientist (Environment, Climate Change & Health), World Health Organization (WHO) (Geneva, Switzerland) Deadline: 1 September
• Programme Manager (Capacity Development), Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) (Stockholm, Sweden) Deadline: 4 September
• Programme Management Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Paris, France) Deadline: 5 September
• Global Impacts of Climate Change Specialist - Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) (Santa Barbara, CA, USA) Deadline: 8 September
• PhD Opportunity: Intelligent Dynamic Flood Response and Recovery Strategy (iD-FRe2S) PhD, Cranfield University (Cranfield, UK) Deadline: 10 September
• 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 
• Consultant (Climate Strategies), South Pole (Berlin, Germany) Deadline: ASAP
• French Speakers: Assistant (e) Suivi Evaluation et Système d’Information Géographique (SIG), Winrock International (Zinder, Niger) Deadline: ASAP
• Earth Data Observation Internship, RTI International (Durham, NC, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• Team Leader (Asia Pacific Climate Resilience Platform), Palladium (India) Deadline: ASAP
• Call for Climate Experts, Palladium (Various) Deadline: ASAP
• Future Earth Network Associate, Future Earth (Boulder, CO, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• Senior Manager (Flood-Prepared Communities), Pew Charitable Trusts (Washington, DC, USA) Deadline: ASAP
• Internship, Climate and Development (II), NewClimate Institute (Berlin, Germany) 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: Reducing the Impacts of Extreme Heat: A Global Perspective, Security and Sustainability Forum (27 August 2020, 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM UCT)
• 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
• Webinar: COVID-19, debt relief, and the climate and biodiversity crises, IIED (9 September, 3:00PM - 4:00PM GMT+1)
• 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