International Consultant to develop a mineral services and processing centre

Result of Service

The study seeks to assess the potential of Rwanda to develop a mineral services and processing centre to serve national, regional, and continental requirements by mobilizing throughput from other regional member States.

Work Location

Kigali and Home Based

Expected duration

7

Duties and Responsibilities

(i) Review the current landscape of mineral production and processing in Rwanda through the analysis of the various mineral commodity value chains being exploited in the country, (ii) Identify the minerals produced in Rwanda and the extent of processing and value addition undertaken and outline any competitive advantages Rwanda possess, (iii) Identify the potential for Rwanda to enhance its exploration, extraction, and processing capacity through a review of the policy and institutional infrastructure supporting the minerals sector, (iv) Review management of the mines toward ensuring dynamic and efficient mining operations for sustained production and legal compliance with mainly safety, health and environmental requirements; (v) Develop an intelligent system for viewing, identifying trends and predicting variables in the mining companies’ production process; (vi) Assess the potential and capacity for Rwanda to import specific mineral commodities from within the East African region for local value addition; (vii) Identify the potential of minerals produced in other neighbouring to be exported (to feed into the Rwanda value chain) to Rwanda for value addition so that Rwanda becomes part of the regional value chain; (viii) Assess the technology and metallurgical processes needed to be able to handle lower- grade ore concentrates and to extract more metal from complex ores, to facilitate efficient mining of smaller orebodies; (ix) Assess the feasibility of a mineral processing methodology based on core minerals and co-products recovery (not core mineral and by-product approach); (x) Determine the mineral export capacity of the region/continent currently available and future plans and how Rwanda can leverage on them; (xi) Carry out assessment of ongoing and future regional/continental projects that might impact ( either positively or negatively) the vision of Rwanda to be a regional mineral processing hub and to come up with mitigations/adaptation measures as well as roadmap (xii) Conduct a comparative analysis of Rwanda’s competitive advantage vs mineral export destinations of the minerals from the region for value addition and what can be done to enhance Rwanda as preferred destination; (xiii) Elaborate the competitiveness of Rwanda as a mineral processing centre in the region identifying the key sources of strength and recommending strategies to strengthen the capacity; (xiv) Outline the implications of the establishment of the mineral processing centre on the minerals sector in Rwanda including the required support to maintain competitiveness; (xv) Carry out diagnostic analysis for positioning Rwanda as regional mining services hub; (xvi) Organise peer learning visits to successful hubs

Qualifications/special skills

Advanced University Degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in either natural resources development, mining/minerals engineering, geology, development policy analysis, development economics or mineral economics IS REQUIRED. A first-level University Degree in combination with two additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of the master’s degree. A minimum of ten (10) years of relevant work experience in any of these disciplines; mineral/mining policy development and analysis, development policy analysis, natural resources policy development, mineral economics, mining policy analysis, regional integration and economic development policy IS REQUIRED. Proven experience in advising government and/or regional economic communities in mining policy or mineral economics at a senior level IS REQUIRED. Sound knowledge and understanding of the mining policy environment on the African continent is desired. Excellent reporting analysis, research, and writing skills is desired

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this consultancy assignment, fluency in English IS REQUIRED. Knowledge of the other is an advantage. Knowledge of another UN Language is an advantage

Additional Information

Not available.

No Fee

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.