Ban Ki-moon Foundation Your Future in Green Jobs – Mentorship Program 2026 – YOA

Deadline: October 25, 2026

Applications are open for the Ban Ki-moon Foundation Your Future in Green Jobs – Mentorship Program 2026. The Ban Ki-moon Foundation (BKMF), supported by Dubai Cares, and in collaboration with Plan International and Unbounded Associates, is delighted to announce the launch of the third iteration of its motion-primarily based program: Your Future in Green Jobs Mentorship Program.

Designed for individuals between the ages of 14 to twenty, it builds on the data youth achieve from the Your Future in Green Jobs Online Course, the purpose of which is to attach the eagerness, pursuits, and expertise of younger individuals with significant inexperienced profession pathways.

In this program, you’ll take part in skilled workshops and obtain tailor-made mentorship from inexperienced job practitioners. Furthermore, you’ll place your self on the coronary heart of local weather motion by implementing a Changemaker Project thereby placing the talents and data you gained from the course into apply! These initiatives goal to sort out a number of of the SDGs in native communities, resulting in a greater, greener future.

Benefits

By taking part in this program, you’ll:

• Gain a deeper understanding of what inexperienced jobs are and what expertise you could pursue them
• Participate in tailor-made workshops on undertaking administration, pitching and presentation expertise, in addition to subjects resembling schooling, gender, and local weather
• Put your data into apply by designing and implementing your personal Changemaker Project with steering out of your mentor and assist from the BKMF and trainers
• Get in depth one-on-one mentorship from a inexperienced job skilled, and develop actionable subsequent steps to pursue your required profession
• Build skilled connections and advance your networking and undertaking-administration expertise.

Through a aggressive recruitment course of, 50 candidates between the ages of 14-20 from all all over the world might be chosen. They will then take part in program actions from December 2026 to June 2027 and be part of dwell workshops.

Eligibility

• Aged between 14 and 20 years previous.
• Successfully accomplished the Your Future in Green Jobs Online Course*.
• Keen motivation and confirmed curiosity in sustainable growth and inexperienced careers.
• A ardour for bringing about change at an area and international stage.
• Upper-intermediate English language expertise.
• Access to steady web connection.
• You can apply from wherever across the globe, supplied you can take part in on-line conferences.

*Don’t be discouraged by the requirement to finish the Online Course, you’ll be able to nonetheless do that earlier than the kick-off occasion! However, completion certificates will enhance your possibilities to be chosen.

Application

During the application course of, you’ll need to enter:

• Your private particulars (e.g. title, contact data, date of delivery, tackle, citizenship, schooling, language competence, brief profile description)
• Your skilled aspirations and motivation to take part in this system (e.g. discipline of curiosity and profession aspirations, challenges you’re passionate to deal with, preliminary Changemaker Project concepts, and many others.).

At the ultimate stage of the application course of, you may be prompted to connect the next:

• A portrait photograph of your self (JPEG or PNG format)
• An introduction video of your self (max 1 minute, MP4 or MOV format)
• Your CV in a easy type (non-obligatory).

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Your Future in Green Jobs – Mentorship Program.