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Vacancies
ICIMOD is seeking dedicated team members at every level to share in our global mission. Both internally and externally, our multicultural staff and partners are our greatest asset. They provide us with a broad perspective across disciplines, and offer us localized knowledge like no other.
Current Vacancies
Application deadline: 2025-09-28
The Regional Information Service (RIS) is a new intervention under ICIMOD’s Action Area: Regional, and part of the organisation’s broader work on Regional Action and Global Advocacy. The overall objective of the RIS is to harness the power of data and rapidly evolving digital tools and technologies to improve decision-making in a way that sustains and protects lives and livelihoods across the rapidly changing Hindu Kush Himalaya region.
The Senior Intervention Manager of the Regional Information Service (RIS) will act as a thought leader in digital information services and technologies, contributing to the team and collaborating closely across ICIMOD and with its partners. This position supervises and manages the RIS team, ensuring successful delivery aligned with organisational standards, and coordinates with other teams across the organisation. The Senior Intervention Manager is accountable for the overall quality and timely execution of RIS, ensuring all components are well integrated, aligned, and mutually reinforcing. The role also includes risk management, clear communication, and coordination across ICIMOD to ensure all personnel involved understand their roles and contribute effectively as a team.
The incumbent will lead the development and delivery of ICIMOD’s Regional Information Service (RIS) in alignment with Strategy 2030 and MTAP V (2023–2026), managing a multidisciplinary team to implement components on regional data, analytics, and innovation. This includes redesigning and integrating the Regional Database System, enhancing data access and usability, developing web and mobile applications using advanced technologies, and fostering strategic partnerships to strengthen data capabilities. The role entails cross-organisational collaboration, resource mobilisation, risk management, and integration of cross-cutting themes such as GESI, biodiversity, and climate change. It also involves high-quality people management, capacity building, and implementing communication strategies to ensure information is widely disseminated, user-driven, and effectively positioned in regional and global fora.
Applicants must apply online before 28 September 2025 (11:59 PM Nepal Standard Time) through ICIMOD Vacancy Application Portal.
Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
Please note: Candidates who have previously applied for this position do not need to reapply.
Application deadline: 2025-10-12
The Hydrogeology Specialist will be responsible for supporting the delivery of results in line with the commitments ICIMOD has made in the HI-CAS Project Performance Measurement Framework, that is nested within our Strategy 2030: Moving Mountains and our Medium-Term Action Plan V (2023–2026): Embracing Change and Accelerating Impact related Results Framework 2023-26 and GESI policy 2024.
The Hydrogeology Specialist will play a critical role in advancing HI_CAS project’s springshed management component. The position will provide scientific and technical expertise in hydrogeology to guide the planning, implementation, and monitoring of springshed management. Key responsibilities include hydrogeological assessments, characterising recharge areas, developing science-based protocols for spring recharge and protection, and monitoring groundwater-surface interactions. By strengthening the evidence base and ensuring technically sound designs, the Specialist will directly contribute to sustaining springs flows and building climate resilience of target communities.
The Hydrogeology Specialist is being hired under the Integrated Climate Adaptation Solutions for the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region (HI-CAS) project at ICIMOD, funded by Global Affairs Canada (GAC) – Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD). The project aims to improve climate-resilient, nature-positive livelihoods while strengthening the leadership and agency of rural women and Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal.
The project will be implemented through the adoption of GESI responsive and locally tailored climate adaptation solutions—grounded in feminist and human rights-based methodologies—that place the rights, agency, and leadership of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) at the centre. These evidence-informed Integrated Adaptation Solution Packages (IASPs) will combine springshed management, renewable energy technologies for power irrigation systems, and agrobiodiversity practices. They will be complemented by capacity building and knowledge sharing to drive institutional policy and action and to attract sustainable investments in climate action and development, particularly in the water, energy, and agrobiodiversity sectors, with a strong focus on women’s and IPLCs’ leadership.
Applicants are requested to apply online before 12 October 2025 (11:59 PM Nepal Standard Time) through ICIMOD Vacancy Application Portal.
Under the Project: Integrated Climate Adaptation Solution for the Hindu Kush Himalaya Region (HI-CAS)
The Sustainable Settlement Specialist will contribute to delivering activities under the Settlements Intervention of Action Area: Economies. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work in diverse mountain settlements in rural and peri-urban areas across the HKH region, shaped by their unique geography, culture, and environments varying greatly in size and population, ranging from small villages or hamlets in the high mountains to hill station tourist destinations and emerging towns/cities.
Mountain settlements in the HKH are continually becoming vulnerable due to the challenges posed by haphazard and unplanned urbanisation, coupled with increasing impacts of climate change, disaster incidents, increasing youth aspirations, rural-urban migration, and rapid socioeconomic changes. The specialist is therefore expected to leverage his/her expertise to support the Settlements Intervention, overseeing its two specific components: a) Sustainable and Resilient Buildings, and b) Planned Urbanisation and Circular Economy. The position opens avenues to bridge science policy and practice through evidence-based data generation, knowledge co-creation, and context-specific technologies sharing while fostering collaboration with think tanks, researchers, the private sectors, and other relevant stakeholders to scale viable/proven solutions for a greener, inclusive, and climate-resilient development in the HKH mountains. S/He will have an excellent opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team at ICIMOD and innovate ideas for holistic and integrated mountain settlement development.
ICIMOD’s Strategic Group (SG): Resilient Economies and Landscapes works to enable the transition from conventional to green, low-carbon economies by enhancing livelihood resilience while protecting biodiversity and environmental health. The SG is comprised of two Action Areas - Economies and Landscapes. The Action Area on Economies focuses on anticipatory adaptation, sustainable livelihoods, enterprise development, sustainable tourism, renewable energy, and sustainable human settlements. Within the Action Area on Economies, the Settlements serves as a dedicated intervention for supporting and promoting resilient and sustainable practices, solutions, and policies for achieving resilience and sustainability in mountain settlements. The proposed Sustainable Settlement Specialist will be positioned within this intervention, contributing technical expertise to advance sustainable settlement solutions that align with the SG's broader goals of economic transformation and environmental sustainability.
If you have any questions related to current vacancies, the application process (including issues with the job application portal), or career opportunities at ICIMOD, please feel free to reach out to us at jobs@icimod.org. We’ll be happy to assist you.
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