Hydrogeologist

Job Description

Title: Hydrogeologist

Company Name: WaterAid Bangladesh

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Dhaka

Salary: Tk. 64000 (Monthly)

Experience:

• At least 2 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

Bachelor’s degree in Geology, Water Resources Engineering, Civil Engineering, or Civil & Environmental Engineering from a recognized and reputable university (Bangladesh or abroad). A Master’s degree in a relevant discipline is an added advantage.

• At least 2 years
• The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): NGO

Experience: Minimum of two years’ experience in water resources management, preferably involving hydrogeological assessments, groundwater mapping, water supply scheme development, and related fieldwork. Experience in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector is considered an advantage.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong understanding of hydrogeology, aquifer characteristics, groundwater resource management, water supply systems, and climate–water linkages.

• Proven ability to interpret hydrogeological data and provide technical recommendations for water supply scheme design and implementation.

• Proficiency in analytical and geospatial software such as GIS-based tools, Power BI, RockWorks; experience with hydrodynamic or groundwater modelling tools (e.g., MODFLOW, MIKE SHE, HEC-RAS) is highly desirable.

• Adequate command of Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

• Strong coordination, facilitation, interpersonal and presentation skills, with the ability to work independently and meet tight deadlines.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Bangla and English.

• Experience working with government and non-government stakeholders.

• Willingness to conduct frequent field visits, including in remote areas (up to 40%).

Contract type: Fixed Term | Full time – 37.5 hours per week

Location: WaterAid Bangladesh Country Office Dhaka, Bangladesh

About the team

Technical Team, under the Technical Services Department, provides expert guidance to implementing units on water, sanitation and hygiene interventions to ensure quality, sustainability, and compliance with standards defined by organisation. The team provides extensive support to design, implement, assess WASH interventions, and not limited to but conducting studies, research, developing technical guidelines. The team also brings innovation in climate resilient and environment friendly WASH solutions. Moreover, strategic collaboration with sector actors, academia, private sector enable the team to ensure impactful evidence-based knowledge sharing across the sector.

About the role

This role will provide critical technical expertise to ensure sustainability and resilience of WASH interventions specially water interventions and resources. S/he is expected to perform specific tasks which will contribute to specific activities or projects, focusing mostly on understanding of groundwater properties, aquifer systems, hydrodynamic systems; guiding sustainable water sourcing for drinking water supply, and protecting groundwater resources against the impacts of climate change and exploitation.

The incumbent is expected to support the country programme in conducting advanced hydrogeological assessments for developing water supply schemes, to ensure that interventions are technically sound, environmentally sustianble and socially acceptable.

In this role, you will:

• Play lead role in conducting comprehensive hydrogeological assessments to identify, assess, characterise groundwater resources across Bangladesh for developing climate-resilient drinking water supply scheme.

• Lead the development & implementation of monitoring mechanism for groundwater extraction and recharge through IoT-based systems for assessing long term viability.

• Prepare high quality technical reports on hydrpgeological assessment for internal and external stakeholders and maintain a document archive containing all relevant data, maps, files, reports.

• Contribute to developing required maps such as topographic, lithological, aquifer system, water quality, land use etc. to effectively utilise them for deleloping water supply schemes

• Support in coordinating with strategic & academic partners, government stakeholdes, consultant(s), and internal departments to derive impactful outcome from collaborative studies and research.

• Support in developing technical guidance on aquifer mapping and water safety planning, capacity building on hydrogeology and water resource management, and development of technical resources for sector actors.

• Collaborate across teams to design and implement water supply systems using hydrogeological data, provide technical inputs for developing project proposals, and quality assurance of hydrogeological components in WASH projects.

• Contribute to innovation and research by piloting new technologies for groundwater sustainability and supporting the preparation of research papers or articles for publication.

Actively assist in effective delivery of project activities assigned by the Line manager/ Director of the department.

These responsibilities will be reviewed with the line manager from time to time.