Build your climate career where it matters. In Southeast Asia.

The Climate Career Accelerator is a 4-week professional development program designed to help you understand the climate sector, map your skills to real roles, and become part of the region’s growing climate workforce. It is not a motivational course. Rather, it’s a training one, built for real hiring conditions and real career transitions.

Learn how climate work is emerging across industries, what roles are in demand, and how to position yourself without starting from zero.

90%

average satisfaction rate

96%

feel supported by the Jobs that makesense team

90%

would definitely recommend the program

📚 What the program is

A structured, cohort-based learning experience focused on Southeast Asia’s climate job landscape. One module per week. Practical content. Region-specific context. Clear career pathways.

Choose your path

Self-paced

👉🏻 Fully online and accessible across the Asia Pacific

👉🏻 Weekly modules featuring tools, interviews, and sector insights

👉🏻 Complete the programme anytime within a 4-week window

👉🏻 Certificate upon completion

Cohort-based

👉🏻 Self-paced learning with added structure and guidance

👉🏻 Fully online and accessible across the Asia Pacific

👉🏻 Weekly modules featuring tools, interviews, and sector insights

👉🏻 Open to 20+ new members every cohort

👉🏻 Two live sessions to kick off and wrap up the programme

👉🏻 Interactive community channel for coaching, feedback, and planning casual meet-ups

👉🏻 Access to a growing professional alumni network

👉🏻 Certificate upon completion

This program is for you if…

🌱 You’re transitioning from other fields who want to enter climate work without starting over

👥 You’re a mid-career professionals whose roles are becoming climate-relevant

🚀 You’re a professional in marketing, tech, finance, operations, engineering, research, or policy who want to understand where their skills fit

🛣️ You’re already in sustainability who need clearer pathways, context, and direction

📚 You’re an employer exploring climate upskilling for their teams

You’ll gain…

🌞 A clear view of how the climate sector operates in Southeast Asia

📚 Insight into emerging roles, required skills, and real hiring practices

⚙️ Tools to translate your existing experience into climate-relevant applications

📂 A climate-ready CV and positioning guidance based on current market needs

⭐ A concise personal pitch for interviews, panels, and networking

🙌🏻 A regional peer group and growing professional community

🖌️ Structured support that helps you move forward with clarity instead of guesswork

If you are exploring climate roles, preparing a transition, or clarifying how your current skills apply, this program gives you a grounded understanding of the sector, practical tools, and a clear path into Southeast Asia’s climate workforce.

📚 About the program

The programme is designed to be simple and flexible. Each week takes just ~3 hours, which you can complete anytime that works for you.

All the course material can be accessed online and is best suited to accommodate participants across Southeast Asia and the Asia Pacific as it is highly contextualized to this region.

For those who prefer to go through the program with a dedicated cohort, please see the upcoming cohorts for you to join:

February 9 to March 6, 2026 (Deadline for registration 11:59PM SGT on January 30, 2026)
March 9 to April 3, 2026 (Deadline for registration 11:59PM SGT on February 27, 2026)

🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Meet Your Guides

Learn from Southeast Asia's Climate Practitioners

Each module features live exchanges with professionals working across energy, finance, adaptation, circularity, technology, policy, and more.

They share how hiring works, what skills they look for, and how real roles are evolving inside the region’s climate transition.

📋 Program Structure

The Climate Career Accelerator is a 4-week learning and transition framework built for Southeast Asia’s climate workforce.

Prepare to engage with masterclasses, practitioner interviews, practical exercises, and other features to support your career in the climate space. The entire course content is designed to help you understand the sector, position your skills, and move toward climate roles without starting from scratch.

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Week 1: Understanding the SEA Climate Sector

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Week 2: Identifying Your Role and Transition Path

Gain a solid understanding of the climate sector in Southeast Asia by exploring its key industries, the wide range of organizations involved, and the real impact they create.

🎙️Expert Interviews

Hear directly from leaders and practitioners working in green enterprises, NGOs, ESG consulting, philanthropy, and more. Their firsthand stories will offer practical perspectives on the sector’s diversity and evolving opportunities.

🎒Practical Exercise

Map your climate career vision with a step-by-step framework and uncover the organizations and impact models that truly match your values and goals.

Discover the wide variety of roles within the climate sector, and challenge common misconceptions about career paths, compensation, and working conditions.

🎙️Expert Interviews

Hear inspiring career transition stories, both bold pivots and gradual shifts, from professionals who have successfully brought their expertise into the climate space.

🎒Practical Exercise

Define your personal Ikigai, assess your career priorities, and draft of your ideal climate-aligned job description.

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Week 3: Positioning Yourself for Climate Hiring

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Week 4: Turning Insight Into Action

Get insider guidance from leading climate recruiters on how to position yourself, create a values-driven CV, and build a strong personal narrative to support your career transition.

🎙️Expert Interviews

Hear from HR professionals on what makes candidates stand out, and get expert advice on personal branding and career strategy from coaches specializing in climate and impact-driven recruitment.

🎒Practical Exercise

Optimize your CV for the climate sector, craft a compelling career transition story, and map out a shortlist of organizations that reflect your values and aspirations.

Design a clear and strategic approach to your job or training program search. Learn how to network effectively within the climate sector and set up a structured follow-up system to maintain momentum and motivation.

🎙️Expert Interviews

Hear from networking experts and professionals who successfully entered the climate sector from scratch through creative, non-traditional pathways.

🎒Practical Exercise

Build your personalized application tracker, craft impactful outreach messages, and develop a concrete action plan and timeline to guide your next steps.