UNFCCC CLIMATE CHAMPIONS YOUTH FELLOWSHIP 2024 FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS (PAID FELLOWSHIP)

Applications are now open for the 2024 UNFCCC Climate Champions Youth Fellowship. The Climate Champions Team is now looking for its fourth cohort of ambitious and stubbornly optimistic Youth Fellows. The programme creates a pathway for young professionals to work within the team supporting the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions for  COP28 and COP29 – H.E Razan Al Mubarak and Ms. Nigar Arpadarai – to drive real world momentum into the UN Climate Change negotiations.

Working closely with the UNFCCC, the Marrakech Partnership, and the COP Presidencies, you will mobilize climate action among non-State actors to fulfill the objectives of the Paris Agreement as part of the Youth Fellowship program.

Application Deadline: 10 April, 2024

Fellows will join the Climate Champions Team for a seven month fellowship, focused on:

• The core Campaigns: Race To Zero and Race To Resilience
• Systems Transformation: critical sectoral work in Finance, tracking signals of change 
• Stakeholder and Policy Engagement
• Strategic Communications

Modules on systems mapping and horizon planning, mentoring, stakeholder engagement, mobilization, outreach in larger networks, and close collaboration with local, regional, and international youth organizations to facilitate knowledge sharing and solution exchange will all be covered during the fellowship. The fellows will have the chance to collaborate as a group to investigate initiatives and outreach as well.

Are you an early- or mid-career professional, aged over 18, but aged 30 or under 30 as of 1st January 2024? Do you have a record of engagement or expertise in the thematic areas hosting the fellowship, and a history of climate or sustainability advocacy? Are you familiar with multi-stakeholder organising? If so, we strongly encourage you to apply!

Eligibility criteria

• 30 or under 30 years of age as on 1 January 2024 (minimum age to apply is 18 years)
• Minimum five years of full-time work or volunteering experience, either in one of the fellowship sectors, climate leadership or organising
• Ability to commit minimum 16 hours a week to the fellowship
• Strong 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
• Proficient English language skills
• Your own laptop and reliable internet connectivity
• A commitment to the values of the Climate Champions Team to raise non-State actor commitments to the global goals of the Paris Agreement

Fellowship Benefits

• This is a paid fellowship programme

Time commitment: 

• The selected fellows will work closely with the respective sector leads during this fellowship and will be required to commit 16 hours per week.

Duration: 

• The fellowship will run for seven months from June to December 2024

Available Opportunities

• Communications (Visual Media) Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description
• Finance Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description
• Race to Resilience Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description
• Race to Zero Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description
• Stakeholder Engagement Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description
• Systems Transformation Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description

For More Information and to apply for the UNFCC Climate Champions Youth Fellowship. Visit the UNFCCC CLIMATE CHAMPIONS YOUTH FELLOWSHIP 2024 FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS’ official website.

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