Applications are now open for the Paid Climate Champions Youth Fellowship 2025!

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Closing Date: 2 March 2025

Applications are now open for the Paid Climate Champions Youth Fellowship 2025!

Overview

The Climate Champions Team is now looking for its fifth cohort Youth Fellows, supporting the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions for COP 29 and COP 30.

Young people are environmental stewards of the future. Many are also leaders and subject matter experts today. The Climate Champions Team, in support of the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions, are committed to strengthening youth agency in climate action. Elevating and empowering youth voices helps drive systemic change so the Climate Champions continues to position this vital stakeholder group at the heart of its work.

The Climate Champions Team is now looking for its fifth cohort of ambitious and stubbornly optimistic Youth Fellows. The programme creates a pathway for young professionals to work within the team supporting the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions for COP29 and COP30– to drive real world momentum into the UN Climate Change conference in Belém, Brazil and beyond.

As part of the Climate Champions Youth Fellowship programme, you will help mobilise climate action amongst non-State actors to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, in close collaboration with the UNFCCC, the Marrakech Partnership and the COP Presidencies.

Fellowship Structure

To help the Climate Champions Team deliver on its plan for COP30 and beyond, the team is 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 Climate Champions Youth 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, the Climate Champions Team 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.

While the Climate Champions Team is not able to reach out to every applicant, its team will contact you if your application is shortlisted for further rounds.