Senior Researcher Officer - Water Management

Job Description

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI), a CGIAR Research Center is looking for a competent, self-motivated, and dynamic candidate to join as Senior Researcher Officer ? Water Management.The general scope of work required from the Senior Research Officer- Water Management will be carrying out water management studies for monitoring, management and protection of water and water resources in different hydrological and environmental settings. The incumbent will develop, calibrate, and validate the model, including sensitivity analysis and documentation of the various modeling application at different spatial scales. They will contribute to the research activities, including literature reviews, field data collection, analytical work, policy analysis, and coordination with stakeholders and project partners in the water and climate sectors. They will also organize project-related events, workshops, training, and fieldwork involving various stakeholders. They will also contribute to writing donor reports and research publications.GENERAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESThe main responsibilities will include:

• Assist in collecting the hydrological and hydrogeological variables from the national and international data archives.
• Work with specifically-designed computer modelling packages to assess the most effective methods of managing available water in a river basin.
• Process meteorological, snow, and hydrologic data to analyse the changes in water flows brought up by changes in land use, environmental factors and crop irrigation.
• Pre-process the primary data in the different image processing software to calculate and audit the water resources system.
• Assist in parameterizing the hydrological models to allow the development of flood forecasting and drought management strategy.
• Assist in calibrating and validating various hydrological models for different land use and climate change scenarios.
• Analyzing the collected datasets for computing the changes in water storage on different Spatio-temporal bases.
• Estimate water yields, taking into account the utilization of water in a specific natural drainage area.
• Assess the relationship between rainfall, run off, soil and plants to map the systematic changes in water demand and supply considering the climate shifts for catchment to basin scale.
• Assist in determining the amount of water that can be allocated for domestic, agricultural, industrial and environmental purposes to sustain the ecosystem.
• Assist in organizing different stakeholder meetings and disseminating the results at different levels.
• Be part of the research team during fieldwork, participating in interdisciplinary research activities, including data collection, processing, and analysis, in the thematic issues such as policy, institutions, water governance and water management.
• Contribute to building positive relationships with the government, civil society and other stakeholders.
• Provide support to organizing meetings, dialogues and workshops for the project.
• Assist in preparing high quality project reports according to project timelines.
• Provide support in preparing project-specific communication materials.

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