Assistant Technical Specialist_Water Resources

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and execute hydrological and hydraulic modelling projects, including riverine flood, urban flood, flash flood, flood forecasting, sediment transport, river basin management, and irrigation planning studies.
  
• Develop, calibrate, validate, and optimize numerical models using industry-standard platforms, including:
  
• HEC-HMS
  
• HEC-RAS (1D/2D)
  
• MIKE Suite
  
• SWMM
  
• TUFLOW
  
• RIBASIM
  
• CROPWAT
  
• Other industry-standard modelling frameworks
  
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to multidisciplinary water resources teams to deliver innovative, accurate, and high-quality technical solutions.
  
• Apply advanced analytical techniques, including AI/ML, remote sensing, geospatial analytics, and data-driven modelling for water resources planning and flood forecasting.
  
• Develop flood risk assessments, flood mitigation strategies, flood inundation maps, early warning systems, and decision-support tools.
  
• Lead river basin management, watershed management, reservoir operation, irrigation planning, and climate resilience studies.
  
• Review technical deliverables and ensure compliance with international standards, best practices, and quality assurance procedures.
  
• Prepare and review technical proposals, methodologies, reports, presentations, and client deliverables.
  
• Lead client engagement, technical discussions, proposal presentations, project reviews, and stakeholder consultations.
  
• Support business development through technical inputs, proposal preparation, and strategic client engagement.
  
• Mentor junior team and contribute to technical capability development within the Water Resources team.
  

Qualifications & Experience

• Master's or Doctoral degree in Water Resources Engineering, Hydrology, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, or a related discipline.
  
• 5-7 years of professional experience in hydrological and hydraulic modelling, flood risk assessment, river basin management, irrigation planning, and water resources engineering.
  

Core Technical Expertise

• Integrated River Basin Management (IRBM) and Water Resources Planning
  
• Hydrological and Hydraulic Modelling
  
• Riverine, Urban and Flash Flood Modelling & Forecasting
  
• Flood Risk Assessment, Floodplain Management and Flood Mitigation
  
• Irrigation Planning, Canal Hydraulics and Command Area Development
  
• Watershed Management and Reservoir Operation Studies
  
• Sediment Transport, River Morphology and River Engineering
  
• Climate Resilience, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
  
• GIS, Remote Sensing, Hydro-informatics and Decision Support Systems (DSS)
  
• AI/ML and Data-driven Water Resources Modelling
  

Technical Skills

• Hydrological & Hydraulic Models: HEC-HMS, HEC-RAS (1D/2D), MIKE Suite, SWMM, TUFLOW
  
• River Basin & Irrigation Planning: RIBASIM, CROPWAT
  
• GIS & Geospatial: ArcGIS, QGIS
  
• Programming & Analytics: Python, R, or similar analytical tools (preferred)