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.
• 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.