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Senior Mining Specialist
Posted on Sep 23, 2026
At the World Bank Group (WBG), you’ll join a diverse, global community working across cultures, disciplines, and borders to address the world’s most pressing development challenges. With 1.2 billion young people reaching working age in the decade ahead, the challenge of job creation has never been greater. Through partnerships across 145 countries and more than 182 offices worldwide, we work with governments, private sector, development partners and other stakeholders to invest in people, strengthen markets, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that generate more and better jobs and improve lives. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org The WBG Infrastructure Vertical provides public and private solutions to operational teams and clients across the WBG to produce scalable impact. Its mandate is to deliver knowledge for impact to support the WBG to achieve its goals in support of our mission. The Infrastructure VPU’s objectives in driving outcomes include replicating and scaling effective solutions, enhancing thought leadership and innovation, and delivering timely knowledge to client teams. For more information: https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/infrastructure The INF VPU’s Metals and Minerals (M M) Department of the WBG (KIMDR) is responsible for the implementation of the WBG’s M M Global Strategy. A core focus of this strategy is the implementation of country partnerships (or compacts). Those partnerships’ key objective is to unlock the potential for economic transformation and development in mineral resources rich countries, by enhancing beneficiation in countries along minerals value chains (exploration, processing and refining). One of those units houses the Metals and Minerals, Policy and regulation (KIMPR). The objective of KIMPR is to provide technical advice and support on cutting-edge policy, analytical work, and investment lending preparation and implementation for government clients, often resulting in financing to support developing countries transform their natural resource wealth into sustainable, resilient, and inclusive economic development, consistent with climate mitigation goals. Duties and accountabilities: The selected candidate will be based in the World Bank’s country office in Conakry, contributing to the design and implementation of World Bank operations and knowledge activities in the metals and minerals sector primarily in Guinea, but with growing geographic focus on West Africa with time: • Lead the dialogue on the mining sector in the Republic of Guinea (Guinea) on behalf of the WBG. The initial scope of work will involve: a.Maintain dialogue and external relationships with Government of Guinea and other sector stakeholders with an objective to lead the development of a new WBG-Guinea country compact. This will include leading early preparation amongst a multi-sectoral team to design comprehensive sector assistance under such compact, especially focusing on policy and regulatory reform, and investment origination along the minerals value chain. b.Providing cross-support to WBG teams across the Simandou corridor as well as other mineral development initiatives supported by the WBG. c.Providing supervision over the Guinea Natural Resources, Mining and Environmental Management Project’s mining component, with up to US$40 million activity financing dedicated to mining sector development with a focus on mining policies, institutions, governance, and economic integration. d.Partner with other WBG teams on joint initiatives with industry, government, NGOs, and regional institutions to implement WBG’s broader mining infrastructure agenda. This includes working closely with WBG private sector focused investment teams on their opportunities in Guinea. • Under the close guidance and supervision of the KIMPR West Africa focal point, serve as the region-based senior specialist and contribute to the implementation of WBG’s M M Global Strategy by providing expert policy and technical advice to governments in the wider region, including Mauritania Burkina Faso, Liberia and other countries. Activities include advising governments on policy, fiscal, institutional and regulatory frameworks for mineral development, processing, governance, negotiations, national economic and infrastructure linkages, and mine closures. • Work across the AFW region and with time may also include the following tasks: a.Collaborating with WBG global and regional teams and lead related policy advisory or “upstream” work. b.Lead technical discussions across various thematic areas relevant to mining sector development, including institutional development, regulatory reform, data management, permitting, artisanal and small-scale mining, and environmental and social considerations. c.Monitor and follow up on ongoing World Bank-supported initiatives related to the impact mitigation hierarchy, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards, and carbon markets insofar as it relates to the mining sector. d.Advise on mining sector alignment with country-level ESG commitments and consult with government counterparts and private sector stakeholders on best practices for their effective implementation. e.Participate in and lead policy dialogue and reform processes in the mining sector. f.Lead analytical work that informs strategic planning and territorial development in key mining regions. g.Contribute to the integration of infrastructure planning as a key consideration of mineral development with a particular focus on mineral value chain enhancement. h.Lead the development of investment-related platforms and initiatives in collaboration with national and regional partners.