King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme Climate Resilience Fellowships 2026/2027 for Mid-career professionals (Fully Funded)

Application Deadline: 30 June 2026 at 16:00 UTC

Applications at the moment are open for the 2026 King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme Climate Resilience Fellowships. 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 public sector, civil society, and personal sector in Commonwealth SIDS with an accredited one-year skilled improvement programme targeted on local weather adaptation observe. 

This fellowship will assist the long-term resilience of Commonwealth SIDS to local weather change by way of:

• Strengthening the capability of mid-career professionals in Commonwealth-based SIDS to virtually tackle the present and future local weather adaptation challenges of their home nation 

• Providing a collaborative platform for the testing and implementation of local weather adaptation options for SIDS 

• Developing a cross-sectoral and worldwide community of local weather adaptation professionals, working collectively to face challenges and embrace Opportunities 

• Enabling and making certain ongoing efforts for inclusive local weather adaptation by way of centring gender, equality, and inclusion and native and indigenous communities. 

To do that, the Fellowship will contain participation in a solutions-focused, sensible one-year skilled improvement programme in local weather adaptation observe that’s grounded within the contributors’ real-world experiences. 

Requirements

• Mid-career professionals (throughout any sector) working in a local weather adaptation practice-related position.
  • Mid-career is outlined as 5-15 years of direct or associated expertise to local weather adaptation observe (or equal) – not job title.  
  • Applicants will need to have a deliberate dedication to 10-20 years of more and more accountable roles inside this area.

• Applicants should be employed at an organisation registered in an eligible nation with a contract as much as at the least February 2027. 

• Applicants should be residents of or have refugee standing in an eligible nation.

• Applicants’ everlasting home should be in an eligible nation. 

• The following international locations are eligible: 

Africa 
Mauritius, Seychelles 

Asia  
The Maldives   

Caribbean and Americas  
Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago   

Pacific  
Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea PNG, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu  

Benefits

A completely funded one-year blended coaching programme, guided by skilled facilitators and mentors, together with the next core components:

• An 18-week on-line coaching course (February-July 2026), involving reside workshops, self-study, assignments and the next modules:

• • Climate literacy
  • Inter-sectoral collaboration 
  • Influencing coverage 
  • Climate finance 

• One five-day in individual residential in Jamaica (June 2026)

• A five-month workplace-based utilized studying mission (August-December 2026)
• The alternative to amass the sensible instruments wanted to answer and construct long-term resilience towards the present local weather disaster with close to rapid impact 

• Access to a digital Community of Practice for shared-problem fixing and data trade
• Candidates will undertake the course whereas persevering with their employment. We are actively progressing in the direction of formal accreditation, with the aim of providing a Postgraduate Certificate that displays the rigour and worth of the programme. 

Course Details

Week 1 – Orientation 

Week 2-5 – Climate literacy 

• Week 2 – Introduction to Climate Literacy and the Climate Emergency 

• Week 3 – Climate Change – Physical Basis, Projections, and Climate Information 

• Week 4 – Climate Impacts and Risks for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 

• Week 5 – Communicating Climate Change and Engaging Communities 

Week 6 – Break 

Week 7-10 – Inter-sectoral collaboration 

• Week 7 – Systems and Errors of the Third Kind 

• Week 8 – Thinking in Systems, Changing the Status Quo, and Decolonising Development 

• Week 9 – Moving from Linear to Circular, Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration 

• Week 10 – The Role of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Inter-sectoral Planning 

Week 11 – Break 

Week 12-15 – Influencing coverage 

• Week 12 – Global Policy Context for Climate Change Adaptation 

• Week 13 – National and Sub-national Policies and Institutions 

• Week 14 – Gender Justice in Climate Action 

• Week 15 – Indigenous and Local Knowledge Solutions 

Week 16 – Break 

Week 17-20 – Climate finance 

• Week 17 – Sustainable Financial Instruments 

• Week 18 – Sustainable Finance in Project Evaluation 

• Week 19 – Fintech in Climate Financing 

• Week 20 – Climate Finance Regulation and Supervision 

Week 21-23 – Break 

Week 24 – In-person residential (collaborative design for utilized studying initiatives) 

Week 25-45 – Workplace-based utilized studying mission (participant-defined and –led) 

Week 46 – Submission of mission report 

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme Climate Resilience Fellowships