Young Professional - Climate Resilience

Young Professional- Climate Resilience

Contract type: Temporary Engagement for One (1) Year Engagement | Full time – 37.5 hours per week

Location: WaterAid Bangladesh Country Office Dhaka, Bangladesh

Salary: Monthly Allowance BDT 30,000, Cell phone allowance, Festival allowance BDT 30,000 for completed tenure and Health Insurance for self.

Change starts with water. Change starts with you.

Every day, millions of people live without clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. WaterAid exists to change that – for everyone, everywhere. Join us, and your energy will help unlock people’s potential and create a fairer future.

About WaterAid

We’re a global federation driven by one vision: a world where everyone, everywhere has clean water, sanitation and hygiene by 2030. Powered by our values of Respect, Accountability, Courage, Collaboration, Integrity and Innovation, we work alongside communities, partners and supporters to make change happen.

About the team

The Climate Resilience Programme of WaterAid Bangladesh aims to improve access to water and sanitation services with promotion of safe hygiene practices among the targeted underprivileged people living in different climate vulnerable areas in Bangladesh. Under the interventions, WaterAid also works with schools and healthcare centers in the respective project areas to improve their WASH services including influencing respective local government institute (LGIs), youth, utility agencies, relevant actors, civil society organization, and stakeholders as appropriate. The team is headed by Programme Lead-Climate Resilience.

About the role

The Young Professional (Climate Resilience) will support the integration of climate resilience in WASH programmes by assisting in technical design reviews, field monitoring, and policy rollouts. The role includes preparing reports, developing monitoring tools, supporting partner capacity building, and providing cross-team technical inputs. This position offers a valuable opportunity for early-career professionals to gain hands-on experience in climate resilience and development programming.

In this role, you will:

• Technical Design & Review – Support in developing and reviewing WASH-related designs, structural drawings, BoQs, and estimations, including stocktaking of all project-level technical documents.
• Quality Assurance – Conduct field monitoring at all project stages (pre, during, post-construction) to ensure adherence to standards, identify deviations, and provide corrective feedback.
• Policy & Compliance Support – Assist in rolling out Water Quality, Construction Health & Safety, QPS, and related policies at project level, while identifying partner engineers’ capacity-building needs.
• Monitoring & Reporting – Develop site monitoring tools/checklists, coordinate with Programme Officers/Experts, and prepare technical reports, progress updates, and donor submissions.
• Programme & Organizational Support – Provide technical inputs to the Climate Resilience team and other programmes, while sharing additional responsibilities as required from the organization side.

The responsibilities outlined above may be subject to periodic review and revision in consultation with the line manager.

To be successful, you will need:

Education: Fresh Graduates with a bachelor’s degree in civil or environmental engineering or relevant subject or faculty with good academic results throughout the academic career. Post graduation will be preferred.

Desired attributes:

• Strong technical knowledge on Civil engineering drawing, construction, estimation, writing and copy-editing skills.
• Good technical understanding of different WASH technologies and their implications.
• Good presentation and communications skills both in English and Bangla.
• Ready to undertake extensive field visits outside Dhaka
• Maximum age of 26 years as of January 1, 2025.

View the full job description here

Closing date: Applications close 05:00 PM BD time on September 08, 2025. Interviews may be scheduled on a rolling basis, and the role may close earlier if a suitable candidate is found.

How to apply: Click Apply to upload your CV and cover letter

Our Benefits

As a global organisation, WaterAid is committed to creating an environment where you can thrive and be yourself at your very best. Alongside our inspiring mission and meaningful work, we offer a range of benefits tailored to each country’s context and policies. These will be shared during the process.

Our People Promise

We will work with passion and focus to make sure everyone everywhere has clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. WaterAid is a place of purpose – where people have a real commitment and shared responsibility for the impact we have. We are a global community with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, motivated by inspiring, stimulating work. We are determined to be a place where people feel safe and able to contribute their voice and truly live our values.

Equal Opportunities

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, beliefs, customs, traditions, ways of life and status. This includes, but is not limited to, race, ethnicity, caste, colour, gender, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, disability status, neurodiversity, age, marital and family status, sexual orientation and gender identity, health status, place of residence, economic and social situation.

Safeguarding

We are committed to protecting everyone we come into contact with. We have a zero- tolerance approach to abuse of power, privilege or trust across our global work, and to any form of inappropriate behaviour, discrimination, abuse, bullying, harassment, or exploitation. Safeguarding the people and communities we work with, our staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks (which can include counterterrorism, safeguarding and criminal records checks).

Together, we’ll change the world through water.

Join us and be part of the change!