To help us deliver on our plan for COP30 and beyond, we are excited to announce Cohort Five of the Youth Fellowship.

Fellows will join the Climate Champions Team for a nine month fellowship, focused on one of the following areas:

• The core Campaigns: Race To Zero and Race To Resilience

• Systems Transformation: critical sectoral work in Finance, tracking signals of change 

• Stakeholder and Policy Engagement

• Strategic Communications and Events

The fellowship will include modules on personal leadership development, 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.

This is a paid fellowship programme.

Time commitment: The selected fellows will work closely with the respective sector and campaign teams during this fellowship and will be required to commit 16 hours per week.

Duration: The fellowship will run for nine months from April to December 2025

Who should apply

Are you an early- or mid-career professional, aged 18 - 30 as of 1 January 2025? Do you have a record of engagement or expertise in the thematic areas hosting the fellowship, and a history of climate or sustainability advocacy? Are you familiar with multi-stakeholder organising? If so, we strongly encourage you to apply!

Eligibility criteria

• Aged 18 - 30  on 1 January 2025

• Minimum five years of full-time work OR volunteering experience, either in one of the fellowship sectors, climate leadership or community organising.

• Ability to commit a 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

• Proficient English language skills. For some roles, certain other languages are also preferred. Please check the job description for more information.

• 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.

Applications are open!

Each sector has specific skills requirements; therefore, we highly recommend you to please read the job descriptions below thoroughly before applying.

• Strategic Communications (Events) Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description

• Finance Youth Fellow (EMDE), Climate Champions Team – Job Description

• Finance Youth Fellow (Nature), Climate Champions Team – Job Description

• Race to Resilience Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description

• Race to Zero Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description

• Stakeholder Engagement Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description

• Systems Transformation Youth Fellow, Climate Champions Team – Job Description

Click here to start your application!

While we are not able to reach out to every applicant, our team will contact you if your application is shortlisted for further rounds. The deadline for submitting complete applications is 10pm GMT on Sunday 2 March.