Apply here to be considered for ten regional coordinator positions currently open

The Global Youth Energy Outlook is currently seeking young energy leaders to collaborate on a unique research project, which will present the perspectives of 50,000 young people around the world on what urgently needs to happen in the energy transition.

Regional Coordinators will play a critical role in defining the engagement strategy and success metrics for their region’s youth perspectives. Coordinators will engage young leaders from their own networks, Student Energy’s networks (Chapters, Leaders and Alumni), and more broadly to gather their insights for the final report.

Ten Coordinators will be recruited to represent ten regions around the world, defined by their unique energy, population, and geographic contexts. Student Energy will explore opportunities to scale up and recruit additional Coordinators in key sub-regions or geographic contexts if possible. This process will be to ensure representation from Indigenous communities, young people in rural and remote settings, and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).

The role consists of working with Student Energy’s Outlook Project Manager and Student Energy’s Research Associate to co-create a strategy for engaging your region and train support teams of citizen scientists to support you in gathering statistically significant datasets.

In addition to the research component of the role, there will be a communications component. Student Energy is working to create opportunities and provide support for  Coordinators to attend key outreach points in the lead up to releasing the final report, with space to speak about your experience leading energy discussions in their region. Key outreach points may include convenings like the Sustainable Energy for All Forum (Kigali), P4G Summit (Seoul), and COP 26 (Glasgow). More details on confirmed outreach activities that Student Energy can support will be provided in April 2020.

The commitment is approximately 5 hours per week over six months from April 1st, 2020 through September 30th, 2020. Due to the more significant commitment required for this role, a paid stipend will be provided. 

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What are the objectives of the Global Youth Energy Outlook?

Close the data gap that exists on youth engagement on energy and demonstrate how young people are thinking critically and collaboratively about pragmatic and systems-level solutions to decarbonize our energy system.

1. Increase the accountability of decision-makers to work meaningfully with young people on the energy agenda, by ensuring that the core call-to-action of the outlook is concise and gains profile, and by providing young people with a data-backed tool to hold decision-makers accountable to delivering on the youth agenda.
2. Deepen global youth engagement on energy by providing young with the tools to work with actors in their energy system and with the collective learning experience of working to gather, analyze and synthesize insights from their peers.

Accelerating the Energy Transition: A Youth-Led Approach

This week, world leaders are gathering for the UN Climate Summit, where they’ve been asked to bring plans, not speeches. At Student Energy, we couldn’t agree more. We’ve spent the past decade speaking to and working with with thousands of young people from over 100 countries, and we continue to hear that the climate crisis is not prioritized as it should be, and that young people are often not meaningfully engaged in developing and implementing climate solutions.reducing our greenhouse gas emissions at the pace needed to address the climate crisis.

We’ve also spent the past decade working to change this by empowering young people to take action on energy, because transitioning the world’s energy system away from fossil fuels is a crucial part of reducing our greenhouse gas emissions at the pace needed to address the climate crisis.

Despite coming from incredibly diverse backgrounds, young people around the world share many of the same goals and sense of urgency on the energy transition. They are calling not just for a clean energy transition, but a just and inclusive one that centers Indigenous rights, fights economic inequality, and champions ecological protection. Young people are willing to take on these complex challenges and collaborate to implement innovative solutions in their communities, but they often lack the financial support, professional networks, and accessible leadership skills development programs that are necessary to enter these new career streams.

To tackle both of these challenges simultaneously (amplifying young people’s perspectives, and addressing their barriers to taking action), Student Energy is launching two new global initiatives at the UN Climate Action Summit: 

Global Youth Energy Outlook

The Global Youth Energy Outlook is designed to be the definitive tool for understanding what today’s youth, 18 to 30 years-old, want for the future of energy, and what resources they need to help achieve this future. Focused on the energy transition through 2030, the Youth Outlook will provide a future energy scenario and include timelines, roadmaps, policy recommendations and pathways for the private and public sector to partner with young people. The Global Youth Energy Outlook will be designed from the ground up by engaging Student Energy’s global network of 50,000 youth, along with a diverse set of research partners and energy leaders.

Student Energy Leaders Fellowship

In preparing to create the Outlook, Student Energy is piloting a unique program that aims to demonstrate how young people can help accelerate the energy transition when given access to the right resources and support networks. The Student Energy Leaders Fellowship is a 10-month program that consists of two online education tracks (Energy Systems Knowledge, and Future Work Skills), paired with a group practicum project where participants will apply their knowledge in tangible energy projects in their communities. Participants will also have access to leading energy experts as mentors, and sessions with professional coaches throughout the program.

To create an environment for real systems change, we need to do things differently. Both of Student Energy’s new initiatives, Global Youth Energy Outlook and Leaders Fellowship, are built on our core principles for youth engagement:

• Accessible and Inclusive: Unlike many leadership development and accelerator programs, the Leaders Fellowship will have no cost to participate, making it more accessible to diverse groups of youth. We are also ensuring that we work in partnership with a representative body of youth to include historically underrepresented voices in energy.
• Intergenerational: Leaders Fellows will not only work with their peer groups throughout the program, but will be partnered with mentors and community partners who are established leaders in the field, to foster intergenerational, two-way knowledge exchange. The Global Youth Energy Outlook will mobilize intergenerational collaboration by offering clear, tangible pathways designed by youth for public and private actors to work meaningfully with them to accelerate the sustainable energy future.
• Youth-Led: Like all Student Energy programs, the Global Youth Energy Outlook and Leaders Fellowship are designed and implemented by and for young people.

As youth voices take center stage this week, we urge government and industry leaders to reflect on these principles and apply them to their own work.

About Student Energy

Student Energy is a global non-profit empowering young people to accelerate the sustainable energy transition through a variety of initiatives, including 40+ global university-based Chapter, a digital Energy Systems Map that reaches 2 million users annually, and hosting the international Student Energy Summit, the largest student-led energy conference in the world. SES 2019, held in July in London, UK was the sixth Student Energy Summit, with previous Summits taking place in different regions of the world ranging from Bali, Indonesia to Trondheim, Norway.

Student Energy operates on a unique youth empowerment model, which means that our initiatives are co-created with young people, for young people. Student Energy has consistently found that when young people are empowered to take action on energy and have access to decision-making spaces, they work to raise ambition through intergenerational collaboration.