CFAs: Climate Champions Youth Fellowship

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 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.

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.

Focus Areas

• 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

Benefits

• 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.

Eligibility Criteria

• Aged 18 – 30
• 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.

For more information, visit High-Level Climate Champions.