Exploration Geologist - Zambia

The role

You will design and oversee mineral field programs, from target definition through to resource expansion. You will work with a multidisciplinary team, including data scientists, and give technical guidance to field technicians.

What you will do

• Demonstrate the highest standards in health and safety, environment, and community relations in all activities.
• Collect and analyze geoscientific datasets across provinces to prospects to determine exploration potential.
• Identify, rank, and prioritize exploration targets.
• Design, budget, permit, and execute field programs, from geological mapping and sampling to large drilling programs.
• Provide technical guidance and supervision for teams of field technicians.
• Work with data scientists to design and implement analytical methods.
• Assist in local community engagement and stakeholder communications.

Required qualifications

• Strong technical knowledge of one or more ore deposit types.
• Good field skills and experience conducting field programs across a range of project stages, from grassroots prospects to advanced projects with significant drilling campaigns.
• Baseline proficiency in standard desktop software packages (e.g., ArcGIS or QGIS).
• Strong leadership skills, including the ability to motivate others and work in collaborative, interdisciplinary teams.
• Previous experience coaching and training geoscientists in leading-practice mineral exploration.
• Demonstrated commitment to high standards of health and safety in the workplace.
• A minimum of 3-7 years of experience in the mineral exploration industry.
• Fluent in English and residency within Zambia.
• A valid driver's license.

Nice to have

• Experience with sediment-hosted stratiform copper, magmatic sulfide, or lithium deposits.
• Experience in early-stage soil sampling and drill programs.
• Working knowledge of one programming or scripting language (e.g., Python, R, C/C++).
• Knowledge of geostatistics and other statistical methods for geoscientific data.
• Experience across more than one mineral system, including pegmatite-hosted mineralization.
• Experience in generative analysis, from new concepts to modeling of large datasets.
• Exposure to GIS and 3D modeling software, such as QGIS/ArcGIS, Leapfrog, Python, and/or ioGAS.

Before you apply

• Only Zambian nationals are being accepted at this time.
• All candidates must be legally authorized to live and work within Zambia.

About the company

KoBold is an AI-native mineral exploration, mine development, and technology company. Its first discovery, Mingomba, is a high-grade copper deposit in Zambia.