IWMI Regional Researcher Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs

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IWMI Regional Researcher Jobs 2024 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs.

IWMI Ethiopia looking for “Regional Researcher”.

Applicants with a PhD Degree may apply on or before 10th April, 2024.

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) is a non-profit international water management research organisation under the CGIAR with its headquarters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and offices across Africa and Asia. Research at the Institute focuses on improving how water and land resources are managed, with the aim of underpinning food security and reducing poverty while safeguarding the environment.

The IWMI has published a job vacancy announcement on 25th March, 2024 for qualified Ethiopia’s to fill in the vacant post of Regional Researcher to be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

IWMI Job Vacancy 2024

Duties and Responsibilities:

Provide core expertise in water systems modeling for the implementation of research-for-development projects.
Conduct research to enhance understanding of various issues related to water systems and their interconnections with food, energy, and the environment.
Under the Digital Innovation for Water Secure Africa (DIWASA) project, contribute modeling expertise to develop Water Accounts and utilize Earth Observation data for water availability and scarcity indicators.
Develop and apply models for constructing decision support systems (DSS).
Integrate hydrologic models and water allocation models like WEAP or HEC-ReSIM for comprehensive water system modeling.
Design and conduct research to address critical knowledge and policy gaps in integrated water resources management.
Establish and maintain core modeling competence (suite of models, database, and applications) to support IWMI’s research-for-development activities.
Develop and apply methodologies to assess the impacts of climate change on water-food-energy-environment systems.
Gather, interpret, and apply hydro-meteorological, socio-economic, and other relevant data for modeling water-energy-food-environment systems.
Customize/adapt existing modeling and decision support tools to fulfill project requirements.
Utilize and integrate geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing tools, methods, and datasets to model water resource availability and management.
Merge field and remote sensing data to develop and execute models and tools depicting surface water and water budget for river basins.
Collaborate within multidisciplinary teams to achieve project objectives, generate new research ideas, and develop proposals.
Cultivate relationships with key IWMI partners and identify potential new partners in climate-smart water resources management and modeling of water systems in a changing climate.
Facilitate internal and external collaboration among researchers, stakeholders, and project partners.
Produce journal articles, blogs, policy briefs, research reports, and conference papers to disseminate research findings and insights.

Position in Organization:

Job Title: Regional Researcher
Duty Station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Application Deadline: 10-APR-2024

Minimum Requirements:

Education:

PhD in hydrology, water resources management, or a related field coupled with 3 years of relevant post-doctoral experience OR; a Master’s degree in the aforementioned fields coupled with a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.

Work Experience:

Experience in modeling hydrological problems and water systems.
At least 2 years of experience conducting water accounting assessments for multiple river basins across Africa.