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Description

 

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank consists of two entities – the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). It is a global development cooperative owned by 189 member countries. As the largest development bank in

the world, the World Bank provides loans, guarantees, risk management products, and advisory services to middle-income and creditworthy low-income countries, and coordinates responses to regional and global challenges. For more information, please visit www.worldbank.org.
Infrastructure Practice Group

Globally, one billion people live more than 2 kilometers from all-weather roads, 685 million people lack electricity, and nearly 4 billion people lack Internet access. Access to basic infrastructure services is critical for creating economic opportunities for the poor. The Infrastructure (INF) Practice Group within the World Bank is charged with developing sustainable solutions to help close infrastructure gaps in developing and emerging economies. The

INF Vice Presidential Unit (VPU) currently consists of four global practices (GPs): Energy & Extractives (EEX); Transport; Urban, Resilience and Land (URL), and Infrastructure Finance Practice (IFP). It oversees the Bank’s work across energy and transport sectors, urban development, as well as efforts to promote energy transition, low-carbon transportation, livable cities, disaster risk resilience, land management, and quality infrastructure services through public-private partnerships. Infrastructure represents around $110 billion of the Bank’s portfolio. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/infrastructure.

Extractives Global Unit Overview. The global mining sector continues to evolve rapidly in response to the energy transition and changes which include higher (i) demand for

minerals and metals needed for the energy transition and related higher commodities prices, which are affecting developing countries on both the supply and demand sides; (ii) emphasis on strengthening governance and sustainability, ensuring the benefits from mining reach the poor, mitigating environmental and social risks of mining, advancing the gender dimension of mining, protecting the rights of people affected by mining investments; and (iii) global drive on promoting resilient investments in strategic mineral value chains to enhance the resilience of the supply of metals needed for the renewable and clean sources of energy to mitigate the effects of climate change.

The Extractives Global Unit (IEEXI) falls within the Infrastructure Practice Group of the World Bank and focuses on mining. This global unit of technical experts is responsible for the design and implementation of World Bank operations and knowledge activities in mining at both – global and country levels and including the growing portfolio of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) activities.

The Extractives Global Unit has over 40 years of experience supporting policy reforms and capacity building for improved ASM practices. Last year, the World Bank and the World Gold Council launched a global initiative to support the development of sustainable

and responsible small-scale gold mining. The initiative seeks to support governments, small-scale mining entities and large-scale mining entities to find collaborative solutions to the challenges facing a well-developed and well-regulated ASGM sector. The initiative’s initial geographic scope is in West Africa and parts of the Sahel. The unit is therefore seeking an individual to coordinate and play a contributing technical role to the advancement of activities across these countries. The position will be based in Abidjan but with travel expected to neighboring countries.

Job Duties and Responsibilities. 

1. Technical and Operational Support to the West Africa and Sahel Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships Initiative (MSPI)
The

MSPI is an exciting and innovative new partnership model focused on bringing major mining companies together with governments and small-scale miners to demonstrate cost-effective small-scale mine development.  In its Phase 1 at present focuses on start up in Cote d’Ivoire with expansion foreseen in other countries across West Africa and Sahel region. The ET Consultant will coordinate the partnership across institutions and provide technical inputs to the partnership design and implementation. In particular, the ET Consultant will provide project management support to Phase 1 supporting coordination of stakeholder engagement, development of programmatic documents and resources, scoping of mine site development,

communications and establishment of regional knowledge sharing initiative. The role will have a lot of capacity building support to government officials in areas related to mine site development, environmental and social performance, geology, etc.

Duties will include:
Establishing and maintaining close relationship with government counterparts,
Participating in all meetings, travels, etc, related to the MSPI workplan,
Attending donor and partner coordination meetings and events in the region,
Providing inputs to design documents, standards, etc, being developed for the purpose of the partnership,
Writing and presenting on the work to partners (internal and external to the World Bank),
Monitoring the work in the mining areas as need

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2. Technical and Operational Support to the Emerging ASM Program in Cote d’Ivoire (CIV)
Complementary to the above, the World Bank is considering a program in support of formalizing the ASM sector in CIV. The ETC will play an important team function in contributing to the project scoping through writing, advising, researching, consulting with government and other stakeholders, and traveling within the country.

Duties will include:
Desktop and field research on ASM in CIV
Consulting with government and other stakeholders on the program’s outline
Writing briefs and other documents for management
Participating in presentations related to the program

 

Selection Criteria

 

• Masters or PHD degree with a focus

on the artisanal and small-scale mining sector and / or other mining related fields
• Minimum of 9 years’ experience in project implementation of ASM related activities in relevant client countries of West Africa and the Sahel
• Demonstrated experience of project management skills with complex partnerships
• Be familiar with available research, data and knowledge products on the ASM sector and portfolio approaches to knowledge management.
• Fluency in English and French required.

 

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