At the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow. A nonprofit international development organization founded in 1971, Pact works on the ground in nearly 40 countries to improve the lives of those who are challenged by poverty and marginalization. We serve these communities because we envision a world where everyone owns their future. To do this, we build systemic solutions in partnership with local organizations, businesses, and governments that create sustainable and resilient communities where those we serve are heard, capable, and vibrant. Pact is a recognized global leader in international development. Our staff have a range of expertise in areas including public health, capacity development, governance and civil society, natural resource management, poverty, fragile states, monitoring and evaluation, small-scale and artisanal mining, microfinance and more. This expertise is combined in Pact’s unique integrated approach, which focuses on systemic changes needed to improve people’s lives.
Department
Mines to Markets (M2M) - Pact’s Mines to Markets Signature Initiative assists mineral-dependent communities to gain lasting benefits from the more sustainable use of the natural resources around them. Pact takes an integrated approach to its work in the mining sector: we link mining to livelihoods, governance, health, environment, and the strengthening of local, regional and national institutions. The M2M program is currently active in eleven countries, working with all scales of mining from large scale industrial operations (LSMs) to individual Artisanal and Small-scale Miners (ASMs) and their communities, in remote areas. For more information on current and some past projects at www.pactworld.org/mining.
Position Overview
Pact’s Mines to Markets (M2M) program spans projects around the world (currently in 13 countries). Pact’s M2M program addresses many challenges related to the mining sector’s governance and contribution to economic and social development. This spans issues including working conditions, responsible sourcing, livelihoods, equitable employment opportunities, informal mining, workers’ organization/representation, local capacity development, gender equity, mining’s impact in local communities, and child labor. Such issues are central to Pact’s portfolio of projects in southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, for which the M2M STM will drive program design and technical direction and provide quality assurance for project reporting.
Elevated scrutiny from the news media, advocacy groups, and other international organizations of child labor and other human rights abuses in the copper-cobalt (2C) supply chain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has prompted a surge of interest in Pact’s M2M program by a range of donors and prospective donors. Such scrutiny has also contributed to maintaining interest in supporting Pact’s programming related to child labor in mining in the nearby tin, tungsten, and tantalum (3T) supply chain, where Pact implements the traceability and due diligence system, the International Tin Supply Chain Initiative (ITSCI), for conflict-free minerals.
Pact’s work addressing child labor in the 3T supply chain has fostered a promising application of an integrated development approach. The Watoto Inje ya Mungoti (“Children out of Mining”) project, for example, has used economic empowerment, education, governance, and capacity-building interventions to promote the sustainability of the initial child protection interventions. This suite of interventions is necessary to reduce child labor in mining over the long term since, together, they more fully address the normative, governance, and economic causes of child labor. Child labor in mining can therefore be an entry point to improving human, institutional, and economic development in mining communities. This contextual premise recognizes that, while mining may be the unsustainable use of non-renewable resources, the sector can afford communities lasting benefits across the above dimensions if properly managed, and thus enable their full participation in a wider range of sectors as the economy diversifies.
This approach, in conjunction with the evolving responsible sourcing agenda, has led the portfolio to expand into the formalization of artisanal and small-scale mining in addition to interventions for large-scale mine operators (LSMs) to strengthen human rights, their engagement with mining communities, and transform their relationships with ASM activities into socially and commercially constructive ones. Such interventions are focused on developing the capacity of mine operators, cooperatives, and regulators to work together to make ASM safer, more transparent, more professionalized, and meet ambitious international responsible sourcing goals.
The M2M Senior Technical Manager - ASM Formalization, Responsible Sourcing, and Child Labor in Mining will be responsible for harnessing the interest of prospective donors and initiatives in addressing the above set of issues to build integrated programs that improve the economic opportunities for mining communities and promote a more responsible and equitable mining and minerals sector. The M2M STM will have strategy, program design, business development, donor relationship, communications and project management responsibilities.
D.C. location preferred, Worldwide locations condsidered.
Key Responsibilities
A: Programming in the DRC:
B: Capacity-building of local technical team
C: Global programming:
Other duties as may be required
Basic Requirements
D.C. location preferred, Worldwide locations condsidered.
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At the heart of Pact is the promise of a better tomorrow. The promise of a healthy life. Of a decent livelihood. Of sustainable natural resources that benefit communities. Now more than ever in its 42-year history, Pact is helping millions of people who are poor and marginalized discover and build their own solutions and take ownership over their future.
Pact enables systemic solutions that allow those who are poor and marginalized to earn a dignified living, be healthy, and take part in the benefits that nature provides. Pact accomplishes this by strengthening local capacity, forging effective governance systems, and transforming markets into a force for development.
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