(Senior) Water Resources Specialist
Job Vacancy | Monday, March 31, 2025
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- Reference Number 250284 Position Level TI 1/2 Department Sectors Department 2 Division Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office Location Asian Development Bank Headquarters Date Posted Monday, March 31, 2025 Closing Date Monday, April 14, 2025 11:59 p.m. (2359 Manila Time, 0800 GMT)
Join Our Mission to Foster Prosperity in Asia
Are you ready to make a lasting impact on the future of Asia and be a catalyst for positive change? We are thrilled to offer a unique opportunity to become an important part of the prestigious Asian Development Bank (ADB). At ADB, our mission is simple yet powerful: to alleviate poverty and promote sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region.
Organizational Setting and Reporting Relationship
The position of (Senior) Water Resources Specialist is assigned to the Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office (SG-AFNR) within the Sectors Department 2 (SD2). SD2 aims to deliver impactful sector strategy, initiatives, and integrated solutions that advance ADB's strategic agenda in the region. SD2, which is comprised of the Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office, the Water and Urban Development Sector Office, and the Digital Sector Office: delivers or supports sovereign, nonsovereign, and advisory operations; delivers knowledge services; supports regional departments (RDs) and resident missions (RMs) in engaging with ADB's developing member countries (DMCs); and ensures ADB's technical leadership internally and externally.
SG-AFNR leads policy development and dialogue, knowledge management, project quality assurance, sector analytic work, and loan and technical assistance processing and administration in the Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector. You will be based at our Headquarters in Manila, Philippines.
You will report to Director, Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development and will oversee technical local staff.
This is a batch recruitment to fill multiple positions and based on qualification and experience of candidates.
Your Role
As a (Senior) Water Resources Specialist, you will coordinate and communicate projects and activities in AFNR sector, and lead and/or participate in the identification, development, implementation, and administration of loan and technical assistance (TA) projects in DMCs. You will support the preparation of sector road maps, strategies, and country water action plans and guide technical, institutional and policy options in the countries and integrate them into ongoing and pipeline projects. Interventions will reflect progressive solutions and best technical judgement on the components and activities under the proposed interventions to manage risks in water resources interventions. This is to ensure effective, climate adaptive and sustainable development results. Delivery of the requirement of the position would require candidates to have skills and sub-sectoral expertise in any of or a combination of the following: coastal engineering and coastal zone management, integrated water resources management, water system management, river basin flood risk management, and flood management.
You will:
- Lead the design and implementation of water sector projects, including meeting project readiness and quality at entry requirements. Lead one-ADB team, and collaborate with relevant AFNR sector country focals and resident missions, to ensure quality project design with high readiness and timely implementation and that sector and country strategy and priorities are met.
Qualifications
You will need:
A university degree in Water Engineering, Civil Engineering, an environmental science or other related fields. Alternatively, environmental science and/or other related technical fields preferably at post-graduate level or its equivalent. At least 6 years of relevant professional experience in water resources sector. International experience working as a water resources/related field engineer at various expertise such as coastal engineering and coastal zone management, integrated water resources management, irrigated agriculture development, water system management, river basin flood risk management, and flood management, in several countries. Good knowledge of water resources development, including basin-wide approaches, nature-based solutions, flood risk management and nature-based solutions, community resilience and participation, infrastructure modernization, capacity building and institutional strengthening, integrated approaches to resource management. Strong technical skills and experience in water resources sector. Ability to contribute to reviewing designs of water resources interventions and associated rural infrastructure facilities, prepared/proposed by consultants or the government agencies, including cost estimates, implementation arrangements and other relevant technical aspects. Ability to synthesize technical, institutional, economic, social, and safeguard outputs into a coherent project design. Excellent oral and written communication skills in English. Good interpersonal skills, necessary to forge consensus among diverse stakeholders over various, and often contentious, development issues are preferred. Please refer to the links of ADB Competency Framework for Technical International Staff Level TI1 and TI2.[
Benefits
ADB offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package. The salary will be based on ADB's standards and comparator markets, taking into account your qualifications and experience.
Paid leave (including parental) Medical and health benefits Life and other insurance plans Staff development Retirement plan Housing and education allowance (if applicable) Expatriate benefits (for international staff)Additional Information
1) Multiple positions at various levels may be filled from this opening.
2) Actual position title and level will be based on your qualifications, experience and job scope that will be assigned to the selected candidates.
About Us
Asian Development Bank (ADB) is an international development finance institution headquartered in Manila, Philippines and is composed of 68 members, 49 of which are from the Asia and Pacific region. ADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. ADB combines finance, knowledge, and partnerships to fulfill its expanded vision under its Strategy 2030.
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