Deadline: 13-Feb-2022
The Climate Champions Youth Fellowship 2022 — led by the UN High Level Climate Champions team — will provide a platform for young people to work with the Champions and to contribute to the work on driving ambitious climate action.
The fellowship will include modules on leadership development, engagement with business, NGO and/or policy leaders, mobilisation and outreach in broader networks, opportunity for the fellows to work together as a collective and a personal capstone project. This is a paid fellowship programme.
Sectors
Fellows will join the High Level Climate Champions Team for a nine month fellowship in the following sectors:
- energy,
- finance,
- food and agriculture,
- oceans,
- communications,
- transport and
- climate resilience.
Duration
The fellowship will run for nine months from April to December 2022.
Eligibility Criteria
If you’re an early career professional, under 30, with a record of engagement or expertise in one or two of the sectors hosting the fellowship or a history of climate/sustainability advocacy and familiarity with multi-stakeholder organising, they highly encourage you to apply.
- Under the age of 30 as on April 1 2022
- Minimum five years of work experience, either in one of the fellowship sectors, climate leadership or organising
- Good communication skills
- Self-motivated and willingness to be flexible (you will be working with teams across different time zones)
- Adequate network relevant to sector-specific or climate related work
- Ability to commit minimum 16 hours a week to the fellowship
- Sufficient English language skills
- Laptop and reliable internet connectivity
- A commitment to the values of the Climate Champions to raise non state actor commitments to the global goals of the Paris Agreement
For more information, visit https://racetozero.unfccc.int/applications-open-for-climate-champions-youth-fellowship-2022/