Call for Mentors and Supervisors: King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme Climate Resilience Fellowships 2026 – YOA

Deadline: March 15, 2026

Applications are open for Mentors and Supervisors of the King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme Climate Resilience Fellowships 2026. The King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme Climate Resilience Fellowships, impressed by His Majesty King Charles III, will present professionals engaged on the frontline of local weather adaptation from throughout the general public sector, civil society, and the personal sector in Commonwealth SIDS with an accredited one-yr skilled growth programme targeted on local weather adaptation follow.

The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) is in search of educational supervisors and skilled mentors to assist Fellows finishing a sensible, office-primarily based utilized challenge as part of a postgraduate certificates in local weather adaptation follow in Commonwealth Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The postgraduate certification is being delivered as part of the KCFP.

Academic supervisors can be college-primarily based local weather adaptation-targeted lecturers. Professional mentors will be leaders inside NGOs, authorities companies, or personal organisations working inside local weather adaptation follow. The supervisors and mentors will assist prime quality, scholar-led local weather adaptation initiatives in Commonwealth SIDS by offering professional steering, guaranteeing alignment with National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), and flagging potential dangers, finally serving to college students to design and ship regionally related options that strengthen resilience to local weather impacts.

Funding

• Successful candidates will obtain GBP 200 honorarium.

Eligibility

Supervisors

• To be eligible for this publish as an educational supervisor you have to be employed at an ACU member college.
• The best candidate ought to have a analysis background within the following classes or related:
  • Climate science
  • Adaptation planning
  • Environmental coverage
  • Earth and environmental sciences
  • Disaster danger discount
  • Renewable vitality
  • Community-based adaptation

Mentors

To be eligible as an expert mentor, you have to be an worker of a registered organisation or registered as self-employed. Ideal mentors ought to mix geographic and cultural perception, technical experience, and sensible expertise and place-primarily based experience. For instance:

• Practitioners – professionals from NGOs or authorities companies implementing National Adaptation Plans (NAPs); personal sector leaders in sustainable agriculture, water safety, or inexperienced infrastructure.
• Local and indigenous – neighborhood leaders or elders with experience in conventional useful resource administration, coastal resilience, and nature-primarily based options; representatives from indigenous organisations lively in local weather advocacy.
• Cross reducing profiles – neighborhood leaders or elders with experience in conventional useful resource administration, coastal resilience, and nature-primarily based options; representatives from indigenous organisations lively in local weather advocacy.

Application

Applicants are inspired to familiarise themselves with the application requirements earlier than beginning the application type. Applications have to be submitted by 15:00 UTC on 5 March 2026.

Shortlisted candidates can be requested to take part in a distant interview by way of a digital assembly platform in March 2026. 

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For extra data, go to KCFP Call for Mentors.