Two (Senior) Lecturers/researchers in Irrigation Engineering
Job description
The
new staff members will join the Water & Agriculture group, which is
primarily concerned with education and research in agricultural water
management for food security and sustainability. This includes
smallholder and farmer-led irrigation and the management, and
modernization of irrigation systems.
We are looking for new staff members with expertise in the field of
irrigation design and modernisation. More specific expertise is welcomed
in a variety of areas, including innovations in agricultural water use,
institutional and financial aspects of the operation and maintenance of
irrigation systems; environmental impacts of water management for
agriculture; new approaches to water management for food security and
sustainability; and irrigation performance assessment. The new staff
members will have teaching responsibilities in his/her area of expertise
and will be expected to supervise MSc and PhD students and implement
research and capacity development projects.
Requirements
- PhD degree in Irrigation Engineering, Agricultural Engineering or Civil Engineering or in a related field;
- Advanced skills in the design, management and modernization of irrigation & drainage systems;
- In-depth interdisciplinary understanding of social, institutional, technical and biophysical aspects of water management for agriculture;
- Knowledge of contemporary debates on irrigation development, water for food security, sustainable intensification of agriculture and access to water for poverty alleviation;
- Proven ability to conduct research projects and a record of peer-reviewed publications;
- Competency in project management and potential for new project and research grant acquisition;
- Experience and great affinity with university teaching, preferably at the post-graduate level;
- Affinity to working in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment;
- Excellent command of English;
- Willingness to frequently travel and work abroad for short term assignments.
Conditions of employment
IHE Delft offers an attractive, multiple choice employee benefits scheme, year-end bonus and generous pension scheme. The appointment implies entry into the Netherlands' Civil Service Pension Fund (ABP). We also offer 31 days’ leave based on a 38 hours working week.
Employer
IHE Delft
IHE Delft is the largest international graduate water education facility in the world and is based in Delft, the Netherlands. The mission of IHE Delft is to work in partnership to strengthen capacity in the water sector, to achieve global sustainable development. IHE Delft has a permanent staff of 200 of which more than 100 are academics from all over the world, while about 250 guest lecturers from academia and industry contribute to our educational programme. Each year 750 professionals (including about 200 new MSc students per year) attend courses at IHE Delft. The Institute has an international staff & student community with English as the working language.
Department
Land and Water Management Department
The Land and Water Management Department’s aims to add value to (human) managed land-water systems through monitoring, assessing, understanding and anticipating the impact of intervention and change. The Department cover a broad range of disciplinary knowledge, across the physical domains of water-landenvironment, the policy and management domains of linking information to action and decision-making, and the technology and society domains, looking at technological innovations in land and water that can support societal development.
Additional information
Additional
information can be obtained from Prof Charlotte de Fraiture, chair of
the Water and Agriculture group (c.defraiture@un-ihe.org).
Applications (in English) should respond specifically to the
requirements and should be sent before 31 January 2021 (closing date)
including curriculum vitae, statement of teaching and research
interests, motivation letter and the names and contact details of two
contactable referees (as one PDF file with your family name as the
filename), to IHE Delft, attn. Human Resource Management stating
vacancy-number 20-LWM-03.
Reactions from staffing agencies and other 3rd parties are not appreciated.
