ADVANCED MASTER “Water for All” – OpT
To diagnose its service, develop its strategy and implement your achievements at the heart of your service and in the field
Presentation
This SPECIALIZED MASTER created in 2009 under the name of ADVANCED MASTER “Water for All” – OpT is one of the components of the AgroParisTech “SUEZ – General Management of Urban Water and Sanitation Services”.
It is aimed at Managers, high-potential executives as well as Operational or Functional Directors of urban water and/or sanitation utilities of public, private or mixed status who have been working in their department for at least 5 years..
It is also intended for any experienced professional presented by his company, its management or its supervisory authority.
It is accredited by the Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE) of Paris.
It is taught in English for session 2025-2026
The objective of this ADVANCED MASTER is to reinforce skills, progress in their function and prepare trained managers for management functions.
This objective is achieved through the development of a strategic action plan within their scope of service.
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For whom?
- Managers
- Engineers
- Executives
Training benefits
The SPECIALIZED MASTER “Water for All” – OpT is a unique training course that aims to strengthen your skills as managers of urban drinking water and sanitation services in developing or emerging countries to help you become future leaders of transformation in your company.
The training is organized to lead you towards the three following dimensions:
- Development of your managerial knowledge
- Development of your sector knowledge
- Personal transformation to become a change leader
You will have the ability to take on the dual responsibility, both strategic and operational, necessary to successfully run your department and your teams.
You will be able to :
- Ensure the definition of the strategy for your department in the short, medium and long term
- Supervise and manage the organizational, technical, human and financial means to achieve the assigned objectives
- Carry out communication and representation actions with key players in the socio-economic environment
- Conduct fundraising policy and negotiations with key financial partners
- Contribute to the definition and monitoring of the implementation of national policies on drinking water supply and sanitation at the national level and specifically in urban centres.
- Contribute to the definition and implementation of the institutional and regulatory system of the sector, including private and public operators.
Employer's profits
The manager is trained to propose and carry out the change management as soon as he returns to the company. In a management position, he or she implements his or her knowledge at the heart of his or her department and in the field to apply and share it with the teams in place.
At the end of the training he will be able to :
- make a diagnosis of the situation of the different departments
- develop strategies in conjunction with the various Operations Managers to improve the technical, social and financial situation
- apply sustainable management methods
- define and begin to initiate the dynamics of reforms at the level of its department or even of the company
Trainers
The training is provided by our expert lecturers, high-profiles speakers and academic partners in the South with at least 10 years of international experience in the field in Africa or Asia.
The SPECIALIZED MASTER “Water for All” – OpT is currently working with 1 new academic partner in the South
Institute of Technology of Cambodia
Formation
Its final objective is to provide managers with strategic and operational capacities to guarantee a quality, continuous and accessible service to the entire population of their city or even their country when the action plan they have to carry out extends over a national perimeter.
The training adapts to your professional reality by offering you a work-study program (3 months in France, 2 months abroad and then 2 weeks in France).
To be a candidate for this training course
Please download the file in the “for more information” section. It has to be properly filled by you, stamped and signed by your MD and sent back with a complete CV, an ID picture and the copy of your highest diploma by email to charlotte.armant@agroparistech.fr with in copy jean-antoine.faby@agroparistech.fr
4-step training program
Step 1: ON-LINE session starting April 21,2025 (roughly 3h per week)
Program proposed April-September 2025
- Leadership and management
- Ethics, integrity and behaviour
- Strategy and planning
- HR and change management
Step 2: Courses in Montpellier – September 29 to December 19,2025
Program through 4 thematic units (UT)
UT1: Management, Strategy and Leadership
- Leadership and management
- Ethics, integrity and behaviour
- Strategy and planning
- Organisational complexity
- Project and process management
- Negotiation
- Innovation
- HR and change management
- Health and safety at work
- Teambuilding and intercultutal management
- Communication, transparency and accountability
- Public speaking and mediatraining
UT2: Governance, Institution and Economics
- Global performance & SDGs
- Common goods & public services
- General economics and department budgets
- Financial management and 3T
- Regulaton and law
- Multi-actor governance and institutions
- Contractualisation and PPP
- Commercial and customer management
- Consultation and citizen participation
UT3: Social, environmental and territorial engineering
- Cities and socio-technical infrastructures
- Urbanisation and pro poor neighbourhoods
- Gender, vulnerability and inclusion
- Informal players and small private operators
- Corporate social responsibility
- Circular economy
- Environment, climate and carbon footprint
- Public, environmental and global health
- Crisis and risk management
UT4: Specialized unit Water OR Sanitation
Courses for WATER specialty
- Commercial issues and customer management
- Benchmarking
- Financial model and pricing
- Human resources, professions and skills
- Innovation and digital technology in the sector
- Integrated water resource management
- Environmental impact and energy
- NRW
- PPPS
- Asset management
- AFNOR
Courses for SANITATION specialty
- Commercial issues and customer management
- Benchmarking
- Financial model and pricing
- Human resources, professions and skills
- Innovation and digital technology in the sector
- Integrated water resource management
- Environmental impact and energy
- Reuse and recycling
- Non-collective sanitation
- Asset management
- CWIS
- AFNOR
- Sanitation strategy
Step 3: Immersion and case study K-OPT in Cambodia from March 23rd to May 24, 2026
One month courses at the Institute of Technology in Phnom Penh with Cambodian lecturers on the following topics:
- Leadership and management
- Ethics, integrity and behaviour
- Innovation
- HR and change management
- Geopolitics ans geostrategy
- Financial management and 3T
- Multi-actor governance and institutions
- Contractualisation and PPP
- Cities and socio-technical infrastructures
- Informal players and small private operators
- Environment, climate and carbon footprint
For Water specialty managers added topics
- Commercial issues and customer management
- Benchmarking
- Human resources, professions and skills
- Environmental impact and energy
- Non-revenue water
For Sanitation specialty managers added topics
- Commercial issues and customer management
- Benchmarking
- Environmental impact and energy
- Reuse and recycling
- Non-collective sanitation
Step 4: 2 weeks in Montpellier in September 2026
These 2 weeks will be dedicated to field trips in France as well as the presentation of your professional thesis
Residency in Montpellier
You must be a manager of urban drinking water or sanitation services, of public, private or mixed status.
You may come from a Ministry in charge of water, sanitation or hydraulics, a regulatory body or a heritage company.
You must have a BAC+5 or possibly a BAC+4.
You must have significant experience in a position of responsibility within your department for at least 5 years.
Your objective must be to improve the quality of the services offered within your entity from an operational and/or managerial point of view.
You must have the endorsement of your management to follow the training, which must have entrusted you with a mission of change management within your company.
You must have a very good level of both oral and written English.
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Testimonials
“This training is very interesting, very different from what we know academically. It’s a very pragmatic master’s degree… allowing me to learn from experiences in other countries.”
Freda BUGENYI
Manager and Senior Engineer-NWSC-Kampala (UGANDA)
Financial support
The chair can help you to find funding for your training grant (23,000 euros) or your life grant (13,000 euros).
Joint approaches can be made to the financial sponsors who work with your company.
Accreditation
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