The UNFCCC Climate Champions Youth Fellowship 2023 is currently accepting applications. The third round of ambitious and unwaveringly upbeat Youth Fellows is now being sought by the Climate Champions Team. The initiative provides a route for young people to join the team assisting Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin and H.E. Razan Al Mubarak, the UN’s High-Level Champions for COP27 and COP28 on climate change, to help the discussions gain real-world momentum.
As a part of the Youth Fellowship program, you will work closely with the UNFCCC, the Marrakech Partnership, and the COP Presidency to mobilize non-State actors to take climate action in order to realize the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Fellowship Details:
Fellows will join the Climate Champions Team (CCT) for a seven month fellowship, placed within:
- The core Campaigns: Race To Zero and Race To Resilience;
- Systems Transformation: critical sectoral work in Energy, Finance, Ocean, Systems Tracking, and;
- Stakeholder and Policy Engagement.
The fellowship will include modules on personal leadership development, mentoring,
engagement with stakeholders, systems mapping and horizon planning, mobilisation and
outreach in broader networks including working closely with local, regional and global youth
organisations to ensure knowledge sharing and solutions exchange. There will also be an
opportunity for the fellows to work together as a collective to explore projects and outreach.
Benefit:
This is a paid fellowship programme.
Eligibility:
- 30 or under 30 years of age in 2023;
- 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;
- Sufficient 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.
Application:
Each sector has specific skills requirements; therefore, they highly recommend you to please
read the job descriptions below thoroughly before applying.
- Energy Policy Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description
- Finance Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description
- Ocean Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description
- Policy and Engagement Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description
- Race to Zero Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description
- Race to Resilience Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description
- Systems Tracking Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description
