Senior Water Expert

about 2 years ago
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At Waterplan we work in long term water security within the context of climate change adaptation. Waterplan is a fast ...

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Job Description

Due to continued growth, we are looking for several Senior Water Experts to join our team. 

You will be working in a fully remote distributed team across multiple disciplines at a science-oriented company and you will do this hand in hand with co-Founders José Ignacio Galindo, CEO - and Nicolas Wertheimer, CSO. Chief Science Officer at Waterplan is world-renowned hydrologist Jay Famiglietti.

Waterplan is seeking experienced Consultants to collaborate in the Professional Services Department. The Professional Services Department is a great complement to our SaaS product and allows our customers to get insights and findings when reviewing their facility data in our platform. The Professional Services Department will contribute with the definition of scenarios to show to our clients and provide clarity on actions that can be implemented in order to reduce risk. As an experienced consultant, you will also contribute your leadership, client relationship, and technical consulting skills to support the growth of Waterplan's business and client base.

About the opportunity:

  • Scaling Water Knowledge & Data, from PDFs and static reports, to an automated SaaS water platform
  • Generating applicable water innovation for the long-term 
  • Join an organization with smart, driven co-workers who care about water resources, and their co-workers, and who welcome new ideas
  • Accelerating the transition to a water-secure world 

This opportunity will be conducted Full time.

About your core focus:

  • Developing Professional Services Department

Coordinating cross-functionally to ensure the Delivery of the professional Services. The Professional Services team conducts amongst others: Alliance for Water Stewardship certifications, Volumetric Water Benefit Accounting, Source Water Vulnerability Assessment, Basin Diagnostics, Risk Assessments. 

  • Customer Success

Get introduced to the Waterplan’s client portfolio. Participate in recurring check-in meetings with Waterplan Risk Portfolio companies, performing strategic product reviews, helping the clients interpret their facilities data in our Software as a Service Platform. Understand and apply good data management principles to help provide technical output in a meaningful way which helps to support a non-technical understanding of our work. Provide technical guidance and inputs to our portfolio clients and review deliverables.

Additional activities:

  • Collaborating with the Companies Revenue Goals

Assist senior Revenue Managers in identifying and pursuing potential business opportunities with existing and new clients. Help develop proposals for clients, including methodological approach and description of tasks, budgets and team structures. 

  • Collaborating with the Product Team. 

Provide feedback to the product team based on insights identified through interactions with Waterplan Portfolio companies, focused on product development & identifying new product features.

Skills and Qualifications

  • Proficient in English
  • A Master’s degree in Hydrology, Geology, Civil Engineering, or other natural resource areas.
  • +15 years Experience as a Water Resource Management Consultant or similar positions
  • Have profound expertise in more than one of the following fields: Gas&Oil, Mining and Lime Kiln, Data Centers, Water Treatment Chemicals, CPG, Nature Based Solutions.
  • Recognized technical water services expert and an established reputation in the marketplace, including positive reputation.
  • Good understanding of the private sector’s water needs and priorities and ability to advise the executive- and board- level representatives on water-related issues, risks, opportunities, strategies, targets and action plans.
  • Ability to multitask and work in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment with a goal-oriented approach

We are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and that candidate may not meet every one of our listed qualifications. Lived experience may count towards the preferred qualifications.

Do you want to contribute towards solving one of the most important issues of our generation?

At Waterplan we work in long-term water security within the context of climate change adaptation.

Waterplan is a fast-growing startup in the Climate Tech Space that develops a SaaS platform for companies to manage water availability in their facilities.

The platform combines companies' operational data with local water satellite imagery to provide a real-time financial assessment of water risk. Based on that, it offers tailored mitigation and adaptation opportunities, from conventional infrastructure to nature-based solutions.

By showing companies the business case for mitigating water risk, Waterplan will accelerate their transition to a world where companies are incentivized to save more water, abate the discharge of polluting effluents, conserve watersheds and preserve shared value.

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and a lot of drive, we want to get to know you! 

Our values: Think long term, Iterative excellence, Thoughtful discussion, Make others successful.

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