Vacancy title:
Senior Mining Specialist

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Energy & Mining]

Jobs at:
World Bank

Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, April 22 2025

Duty Station:
Dar es salaam | Dar es Salaam | Tanzania

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, April 9 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Contribute towards the framing of the World Bank’s strategy and service responses to the evolving technical, fiscal, regulatory, environmental, and social challenges in the mineral sector and related areas.
  • Lead in a cross-sector context and in multidisciplinary teams on operational work and policy dialogue with countries and internally in the World Bank Group across a broad range of mineral sector issues on long-standing and emerging business lines and contribute to new business development in these areas.
  • Initial scope of work will likely concentrate on the World Bank’s ongoing mining sector financing and advisory support to countries of the Southern and Eastern Africa Region (AFE), including Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • Provide expert policy and technical advice to governments on policy, fiscal, institutional and regulatory frameworks for mineral development, processing, governance, negotiations, national economic and infrastructure linkages, and mine closures.
  • Lead on the development of innovative approaches supporting the Bank’s efforts in mining projects including adoption of approaches to decarbonize mining activities and the development of resilient supply chains for metals needed for the energy transition.
  • Take a lead role in partnering with others within the World Bank Group (including IFC and MIGA) and on joint initiatives with industry, government, NGOs, and regional institutions to implement the Bank’s broader mining agenda.
  • Conduct outreach to key stakeholders including delivering presentations to World Bank Group management, staff and a range of external audiences.
  • Maintain dialogue and internal relationships with Country Management Units in selected countries.
  • Mentor junior staff.

Selection Criteria

• Minimum of a master’s degree or higher in a mining related discipline (e.g. natural resource management, mineral economics/finance, geology, or mining, metallurgical, geotechnical or environmental engineering) from a reputable university.
  • A minimum of 8 years of broad international work experience including experience in Africa (but not limited to Africa) in the mining industry development agenda where a significant part was ideally gained in the private sector focusing on mining investment or government relations, and experience with policy, institutional, regulatory, and fiscal frameworks for mineral development projects, processing, governance, sustainability (environmental and social), mine closures, local economic development, and mining linkages to the domestic economy.
  • Demonstrated experience and knowledge of mineral regulatory and institutional frameworks; taxation; sector governance; exploration and development; mining and mineral processing; environmental and social protection; local content; community and gender linkages and mine closure.
  • Exposure to and experience in a mix of project, policy, negotiations, and planning issues in mining ideally in the public sector or in industry preferably in developing economies.
  • Results-oriented approach and proven problem-solving skills, with a strong ability to devise and manage work plans and manage a portfolio of projects ensuring delivery and results on time and within allotted resource budgets.
  • Experience of building effective working relationships and working successfully with a range of constituencies in government, mining industry and community groups, creating partnerships and gaining commitment for action.
  • Knowledge of the intersection between mining and the climate change agenda, including approaches to climate mitigation and adaption in the context of mining, greening mineral value chains and decarbonization, and sustainable extraction and processing of critical minerals.
  • Demonstrated experience of assessing macro and micro trends (economic, social or technological) that affect the mining industry as well as geopolitical trends affecting investments, supply chains, and resource governance.
  • Demonstrated ability to coordinate, participate in strategic cross-sector dialogues within the network, across countries, among a multi- disciplinary team of colleagues and other development institutions, government, and other organizations.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and/or French; a demonstrated ability to operate and collaborate effectively in a diverse team and matrix environment; and engage with the adequate levels in the World Bank Group and with Government.  Evidence of ability to communicate effectively in writing may be requested later in the hiring process.
  • Ability to mentor and manage less experienced team members and consultants within the World Bank Group.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 96

Level of Education: postgraduate degree

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