Teaching Assistant: Scenario Developer

Teaching Assistant:  Scenario Developer 

Project: Moral Water Risk: An Interactive Platform to Explore Fairness and Trust in Water Crisis Scenarios.  Faculty: Technology Policy and Management (TPM) / Multi-Actor Systems

Duration: 4 months | 4 hours per week 

 

About the project

The Moral Water Risk project develops an interactive platform where participants explore difficult trade-offs in flood and drought scenarios: who gets protected first, how limited water is distributed, and what constitutes a fair crisis response. The platform is designed to reveal how values, trust, and perceptions of fairness shift under stress, and will be used across TU Delft courses and public engagement activities.

What you will do

• You will develop the scenario content that sits at the heart of the platform. Your responsibilities include:

• Designing short, realistic, and morally compelling "what-if" scenarios involving water scarcity, flooding, and protection dilemmas

• Ensuring scenarios are grounded in plausible hydrological and governance contexts

• Crafting decision prompts and trade-offs that surface tensions around fairness, legitimacy, and institutional trust

• Collaborating with the research team to align scenario structure with the platform's data collection goals

• Documenting scenarios in a reusable format for future adaptation

What we are looking for

• MSc student or recent graduate in Water Management, Civil Engineering, Environmental Policy, Governance, or a related field

• Background in or strong interest in water-related hazards (floods, droughts, water allocation)

• Ability to translate technical and policy concepts into accessible, engaging narratives

• Collaborative mindset and attention to detail

• Interest in ethics, fairness, and public engagement around environmental risk is a plus

What we offer

A hands-on role shaping the intellectual core of a novel research tool. You will work closely with researchers across TPM, EEMCS, and Civil Engineering & Geosciences, and your scenarios will be used in academic research, TU Delft courses (including Resilient Delta and Model-Based Decision Making), and public dialogue settings.

Interested? Contact Dr. Jazmin Zatarain Salazar at J.ZatarainSalazar@tudelft.nl