Climate Fellowship – Job Description
• Position: Climate Fellow
• Positions-10 (Socio-economic-3, Agriculture-3, Ecology-2, Water Policy and Governance-01, Hydro-geology-1)
• Organisation: Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
• Location: Pune
• Duration: 10 Months
• Application Deadline: 31st August 2026
• Start Date: 15th September 2026

About WOTR
Established in 1993, WOTR is an internationally recognised non-profit and think tank working at the intersection of practice, knowledge, and policy. Its mission is to ensure water and food security, sustainable livelihoods, and resilience for vulnerable rural communities in India. WOTR tackles the key causes of rural poverty by taking a holistic approach to rejuvenate rural communities and the ecosystems in which they live. The focus is on mobilising rural people and building their capacities to efficiently manage the land, water, and forests that surround them. WOTR has been working with rural communities in India for 3 decades now. Together with its partners,



it has touched the lives of over 6.93 million across 7124 villages in 10 states of India – Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Karnataka. It has included participants from 63 countries in training and exposure programmes.

About W-CReS:
Initiated in 2007 and set up as an autonomous unit in 2016, the WOTR Centre for Resilience Studies (W-CReS) conducts multi-stakeholder, applied research on ground-level challenges through a transdisciplinary approach. Its goal is to examine how drivers of change affect communities, uncover causal and behavioural dynamics, and identify strategies that foster socially beneficial change. W-CReS also builds capacities and informs policy and program design. It has formal collaborations with leading national and international institutions such as ICAR, IMD, and CRIDA, and works closely with civil society, companies, and governments at the federal and state levels.

📌 Fellowship (Pune)
🏢 Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
📍 Pune