Our 2025 Youth Fellowship is live! Find out more and apply here: 2025 Youth Fellowship

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Careers

Join our global team of working across regions and sectors.

Core Values

Unite behind the science: we commit to make the changes scientists tell us are needed.

Build upon the incredible work to date: we will cross-fertilize and amplify the work of the many heroes who have already committed so much to addressing climate change.

Take into account different ideas and perspectives: we’re willing to be challenged and to challenge, we look for the best in people and the best, most sound and most credible ideas, wherever they come from.

Practice stubborn optimism: we recognize the scale of the problem, combined with an absolute determination to build our way out.

Seek progress not perfection: all of us can be criticized and many of those best able to advance this issue are currently the biggest causes of it. We can’t allow cynical greenwashing, but all who are serious about tackling climate change positively will be welcomed.

Be humble and generous: we keep our egos in check and work together for the good of the whole.

Open Roles

Pro Bono Secondment Opportunity: Water Lead

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) Finance Analyst

Strategic Communications (Events) Youth Fellow

Finance Youth Fellow (EMDE)

Finance Youth Fellow (Nature)

Race to Resilience Youth Fellow

Race to Zero Youth Fellow

Stakeholder Engagement Youth Fellow

Systems Transformation Youth Fellow

Accelerating ActionCareers

The UN Climate Change High-Level Champions hold a unique mandate under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): to mobilise businesses, investors, cities, regions and civil society and act as a bridge between non-state actors and national governments to reach the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Meet them here

Each HLC is appointed by the COP presidencies and serves for a term of 2 years. In 2020, the then serving HLCs established the Climate Champions Team (CCT), to help HLCs deliver on the mandate. Fast-forward to 2024, the CCT is a global team of 85 FTE staff approximately 50% based in regions traditionally underrepresented in global climate action.

The work of the CCT is anchored in a five year plan welcomed by Parties at COP26. It sets out objectives and details of the tools employed to achieve them, across six key functions for the work of the Climate Champions Team for the period 2021 – 2025. Key pillars in our work include the global campaigns Race to Zero and Race to Resilience, and related action frameworks that are all in delivery of the science-based 2030 Climate Solutions. 

We are now looking to fill a number of key roles in the team to maintain the momentum and further accelerate climate action leading up to COP30 and beyond.

The links below set out descriptions of the roles which are currently open. Please check back regularly for updates.