Overview

Josh’s Water Jobs started in 2011 as an informal listserv of a few dozen friends and colleagues receiving a job posting every month. As the list grew in size, not only in the number of recipients but also the number of jobs, it became increasingly clear that the list was filling a gap where a website concentrating on international water jobs should have been. The more people got jobs, the more the initiative to create that website gained momentum, culminating in Josh’s Water Jobs being launched in June of 2016. The jobs found on the website are related to water and internationally focused. There are two broad categories that are highlighted, namely Water (policy, governance, law, economics, management, finance, advocacy, science, communications, etc.) and WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene). The initial phase of the website will focus on what has always been done: connecting people with jobs. What follows will depend largely on the demand of the site’s users. Initial ideas from the original listserv group reflected a movement towards enhancing the experience between jobseekers and employers along with the dissemination of information related to career development and what is going on in the water community itself.