Deadline: 6-Aug-22
The Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) has announced the applications for its Fellowship that focuses on water insecurity in the Mekong Region is providing a 12-month fellowship hosted at the SUMERNET Secretariat in Bangkok, Thailand.
The fellowships are intended for young and early-career (not older than 35 years) Mekong Region citizens with researcher and/or practitioner backgrounds from the countries of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
One of the focuses of SUMERNET 4 All interventions is to improve capacity of young and early career professionals in the fields relevant to SUMERNET areas of work: multistakeholder engagement, research, communications and project management (including monitoring & evaluation).
Objectives
- To strengthen knowledge, capacity and skill of young Mekong citizen researchers, development practitioners, those interested in communications and media work, and graduate students.
- To help deliver credible, gender inclusive, human rights-based, conflict-sensitive, and poverty-reducing research, practice and communications related to water insecurity in the Mekong Region.
- To strengthen the partnership and networking opportunities between their institutions of origin with the SUMERNET Steering Committee, SUMERNET Secretariat and other SUMERNET member institutes. Young professionals or graduate students from the member institutes of SUMERNET will be given higher priority for this grant.
- To enhance a sense of ownership for the early career researchers, development practitioners, communication or media people, or graduate students towards SUMERNET as a regional research network.
Components
- This fellowship call seeks applicants interested to work under Component:
- Multistakeholder engagement and/or Component
- Research for Policy and Practice.
- This call is looking to recruit two fellows who will closely work with the Coordinator for Component 1 and Component 2.
Funding Information
- The SUMERNET 4 All Fellow will receive a monthly allowance of SEK 7,500 (approximately US$ 750) to cover basic living costs and accommodation while residing in Bangkok, Thailand plus standard/economic level Alternative State Quarantine (ASQ) costs, basic health/travel insurance, and relevant direct costs (return flight and transit accommodations) plus internet/communication costs. For the duration of their fellowship, SEI will arrange a Thailand visa and work permit fees to enable the fellow to legally live and work in Thailand.
- The duration of this grant is 12 months. There is a possibility to extend the fellowship for another term of 6-12 months dependent on the evaluation of the candidate’s work and with the agreement of all parties concerned (SUMERNET fellow, SUMERNET Steering Committee, SUMERNET Secretariat, and also if relevant, the candidate’s home institution).
Requirements
- Required
- Candidate is a citizen of one of the Mekong Region countries (Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam) and is not older than 35 years at the start of the fellowship.
- Holds at least a bachelor’s degree and/or is in the process of obtaining Master’s or PhD degree in the subjects relevant to the S4A programme of work.
- At least 2 years of work experience in a field related to the S4A programme of work.
- Available to commit to a 12-month full-time period of stay in Thailand based with the SUMERNET Secretariat in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Proficiency in English language along with their native language in the Mekong Region.
- Preferable
- Candidates who submit proof of previous work showing that they have relevant qualifications and skills or are recommended by individual who is a member of SUMERNET or institution who is affiliated to SUMERNET as current or previous partners will be given priority in the selection process.
- Candidates with relevant work experience, education, and skills relevant to Component 2 (Research for Policy and Practice) and/or Component 1 (Multistakeholder engagement) will be given priority in the selection process.
For more information, visit https://sei.submittable.com/submit