UNFCCC CAPACITY Fellowship Programme 2025 in Bonn, Germany – YOA

Deadline: March 23, 2025

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat is now accepting purposes for the Capacity Award Programme to Advance Capabilities and Institutional Training in one Year (CAPACITY) Fellowship Programme 2025. The CAPACITY Fellowship goals to construct native skilled experience and improve the capability of Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to handle local weather change challenges.

This programme affords mid-profession professionals, already employed in authorities roles in SIDS or LDCs, the OPPORTUNITY to work and obtain coaching inside the UNFCCC Secretariat in Bonn for one 12 months (as much as two years). Fellows are chosen on a person foundation, with the understanding that the event and coaching they endure can be utilized inside the context of their home group, in the end strengthening its capability to deal with local weather change points.

The fellowship goals to:

• Support the local weather change efforts of growing international locations beneath the UNFCCC, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement.
• Promote bilateral and multilateral cooperation on local weather-associated issues.
• Strengthen institutional capability in growing international locations, empowering them to have interaction successfully in international local weather motion.

Vacancies:

Thanks to funding from the Governments of Italy and Portugal, the UNFCCC secretariat is happy to announce three new CAPACITY Fellowship vacancies: 

• Transparency
• Means of Implementation Division
• Adaptation Division

Benefits

• Work in a various, multicultural and interdisciplinary surroundings.
• Gain a deeper understanding of the UN system and the worldwide local weather change governance course of.
• Develop sensible abilities in their space of experience.
• Benefit from impactful coaching and excessive-high quality mentorship.
• Contribute to modern analytical work on international local weather challenges.

The CAPACITY Fellowship Programme affords a transformative expertise that equips fellows with the instruments, abilities, and networks to drive significant change in their home international locations’ local weather motion efforts.

• The month-to-month stipend together with allowances is EUR 4500
• The UNFCCC Secretariat will organise the return journey to Bonn

Eligibility

The Fellowship Programme is open to people who’re

• Currently employed in a governmental organisation (nationwide, regional, provincial or native) together with academic establishments, analysis institutes and ministries.
• A nationwide of an eligible LDC and SIDS nation (UN member international locations solely).
• Maximum of 40 years of age on the deadline of Fellowship Opportunity discover.

Other necessities

• Proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Knowledge of one other UN official language.
• This Programme isn’t supposed for college kids, nor to supply help for a sophisticated diploma, akin to fieldwork for a PhD diploma.
• The secretariat values inclusiveness, range, and gender fairness.

Application

Candidates from SIDS and LDCs, whose {qualifications} and expertise match what we’re on the lookout for,
ought to use the net application system accessible.

You could also be invited for evaluation of your technical/skilled data. If profitable, you can be invited for the ultimate stage of the choice course of, which consists of an interview to evaluate the abilities and aptitudes required to efficiently carry out the capabilities of the put up.

Click here to apply.

For extra info, go to UNFCCC.