Senior Exploration Geologist - Zambia

The role

You will generate exploration targets and design and oversee field programs, from target definition through to resource expansion. You will work with data scientists and senior technical advisors, and help make the investment case for acquisitions and field programs.

What you will do

• Demonstrate the highest standards in health and safety, environment, and community relations in all activities.
• Collect and analyze geoscientific datasets to 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 across project stages, from grassroots prospects to advanced projects with drilling campaigns.
• Baseline proficiency in standard desktop GIS software such as ArcGIS or QGIS.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to work in collaborative, interdisciplinary teams.
• Experience coaching and training geoscientists.
• Demonstrated commitment to high standards of health and safety in the workplace.
• A minimum of 10 years experience in the mineral exploration industry.
• Fluent in English.
• Residency within Zambia.
• A valid driver's license.

Nice to have

• Working knowledge of one programming or scripting language such as Python, R, or C/C++.
• Knowledge of geostatistics or other statistical methods for geoscientific data.
• Experience across more than one mineral system.
• 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, or ioGAS.

Benefits

• Hands-on exposure to exploration projects around the world.

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, and it runs exploration programs in eight countries.