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Result of Service

The examine seeks to assess the potential of Rwanda to develop a mineral services and processing centre to serve nationwide, regional, and continental necessities by mobilizing throughput from different regional member States.

Work Location

Kigali and Home Based

Expected length

7

Duties and Responsibilities

(i) Review the present panorama of mineral manufacturing and processing in Rwanda by the evaluation of the assorted mineral commodity worth chains being exploited within the nation, (ii) Identify the minerals produced in Rwanda and the extent of processing and worth addition undertaken and define any aggressive benefits Rwanda possess, (iii) Identify the potential for Rwanda to improve its exploration, extraction, and processing capability by a evaluate of the coverage and institutional infrastructure supporting the minerals sector, (iv) Review administration of the mines towards guaranteeing dynamic and environment friendly mining operations for sustained manufacturing and authorized compliance with primarily security, well being and environmental necessities; (v) Develop an clever system for viewing, figuring out developments and predicting variables within the mining firms’ manufacturing course of; (vi) Assess the potential and capability for Rwanda to import particular mineral commodities from inside the East African area for native worth addition; (vii) Identify the potential of minerals produced in different neighbouring to be exported (to feed into the Rwanda worth chain) to Rwanda for worth addition in order that Rwanda turns into a part of the regional worth chain; (viii) Assess the know-how and metallurgical processes wanted to have the opportunity to deal with lower- grade ore concentrates and to extract extra steel from advanced ores, to facilitate environment friendly mining of smaller orebodies; (ix) Assess the feasibility of a mineral processing methodology primarily based on core minerals and co-products restoration (not core mineral and by-product method); (x) Determine the mineral export capability of the area/continent at present obtainable and future plans and how Rwanda can leverage on them; (xi) Carry out evaluation of ongoing and future regional/continental initiatives which may affect ( both positively or negatively) the imaginative and prescient of Rwanda to be a regional mineral processing hub and to provide you with mitigations/adaptation measures in addition to roadmap (xii) Conduct a comparative evaluation of Rwanda’s aggressive benefit vs mineral export locations of the minerals from the area for worth addition and what will be finished to improve Rwanda as most popular vacation spot; (xiii) Elaborate the competitiveness of Rwanda as a mineral processing centre within the area figuring out the important thing sources of power and recommending methods to strengthen the capability; (xiv) Outline the implications of the institution of the mineral processing centre on the minerals sector in Rwanda together with the required assist to preserve competitiveness; (xv) Carry out diagnostic evaluation for positioning Rwanda as regional mining services hub; (xvi) Organise peer studying visits to profitable hubs

Qualifications/particular abilities

Advanced University Degree (grasp’s diploma or equal) in both pure assets improvement, mining/minerals engineering, geology, improvement coverage evaluation, improvement economics or mineral economics IS REQUIRED. A primary-level University Degree together with two extra years of related expertise could also be accepted in lieu of the grasp’s diploma. A minimal of ten (10) years of related work expertise in any of those disciplines; mineral/mining coverage improvement and evaluation, improvement coverage evaluation, pure assets coverage improvement, mineral economics, mining coverage evaluation, regional integration and financial improvement coverage IS REQUIRED. Proven expertise in advising authorities and/or regional financial communities in mining coverage or mineral economics at a senior degree IS REQUIRED. Sound information and understanding of the mining coverage setting on the African continent is desired. Excellent reporting evaluation, analysis, and writing abilities is desired

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this consultancy project, fluency in English IS REQUIRED. Knowledge of the opposite is a bonus. Knowledge of one other UN Language is a bonus

Additional Information

Not obtainable.

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.