Employment
Integrated water management
Technical Inspector – National Water Supply and Sanitation Council
Kasenga Hara, Zambia
“Completing the MIWM definitely contributed to my recent promotion. It has also broadened my spectrum and empowered me to interact with other sector players and contribute intelligently on water issues when I represent my institution on inter-agency committees etc.”
Knowledge Sharing and Monitoring Facilitator for the Pacific IWRM Project – Consultant for the Applied Geoscience and Technology Division of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SOPAC/SPC), Suva, Fiji
Kelly Hines, USA
“My current position is a direct extension from my third semester internship through the MIWM course. The IWC professors and staff have been wonderful mentors and resources to lean on and learn from as I step back into the professional world in this new capacity.”
Programme Development and Monitoring and Evaluation Associate – UN Habitat, Pakistan
Shafaq Masud, Pakistan
“The IWC Masters helped me understand what integration means. As I take on various types of work, the basic concepts, tools and methods taught in the MIWM program serve as a ready reference for implementing tasks effectively with greater understanding.”
Water Resources Manager – Government Department of Water Resources, Vanuatu
Erickson Sammy, Vanuatu
“The MIWM improved my knowledge and skills in working in a collaborative manner, as well as applying the concepts to practice.”
Research
Programs Manager (Research - public policy and WASH) –Kabano Research and Development Centre, Uganda
Robert Apunyo, Uganda
Research Assistant – Institute for Sustainable Futures, Australia
Janina Murta, Mozambique
“The MIWM complemented my background in environmental engineering by providing me a better understanding of the social, governance and institutional dimensions of sustainability from a water management perspective. It opened up doors for the type of employment I was looking for.”
Engineering
Commissioning Engineer – Proactiva Medio Ambiente, Peru
Vincent Guézingar, France
"The Masters program made me realise that water infrastructures are just part of the response to water issues. I feel that I now have the skills to work in Water Strategic Planning and propose real integrated solutions, instead of just imagining putting water utilities here and there."
Water Engineer – Origin Energy, Australia
Richard Kok, Malaysia
“The program provided me the opportunity to enhance my engineering career and get into the water industry. It provided me ample water management skills and water engineering knowledge and helped to encourage problem solving from an integrated perspective.”
Policy and planning
Source Water Protection Planner – Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Canada
Jennifer Arthur, Canada
“Canada is on the cusp of some broad-sweeping policy change to the way it approaches water management, and having the MIWM degree certifies that I am prepared to be involved and to ensure that these changes are approached from an integrated perspective.”
Superintending Hydrologist – Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Kenya
Antony Mwenje, Kenya
“I intend to have an impact on policy with particular respect to on-going water reforms, especially in the newly created administrative units in the country, where decentralisation of water resources policy, regulation and management is key.”
Governance
IWRM-Water Governance Officer and part-time Lecturer at Polytechnic University of Mozambique (UDM) – National Directorate of Water, International Rivers Office
Ronaldo Inguane, Mozambique
“This Masters has enabled me to take on significant national consultancy work which I could not have done before. For instance, I have been working for the UN Conference (UNCSD Rio 2012) and a WHO UN-Water Initiative, and I have frequently been invited to give academic talks in national universities on water sector reform.”
Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH)
WASH-Microfinance Project Coordinator – WaterSHED Asia
Jeff Goldberg, USA
“I began working in my current position as direct result of my thesis / industry placement in the MIWM. The experience was incredibly enriching. I am now leading the design of longer term study, which will help to inform the wider WASH sector about the viability of using microfinance to improve WASH coverage in low-income settings.”
