The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum of Afghanistan is a pivotal government institution entrusted with the responsible and sustainable management and development of the nation's valuable mineral and petroleum resources. With a vision to unlock the potential of Afghanistan's abundant mineral wealth and hydrocarbon reserves, the ministry is dedicated to fostering sustainable economic growth, environmental stewardship, and social prosperity. Aligned with international best practices, the ministry's mission is to implement policies, regulations, and procedures that encourage environmentally and socially acceptable private investments. It plays a crucial role in advancing research, exploration, development, and responsible exploitation of the country's mineral and hydrocarbon resources.

The Mining Extraction & Exploitation Quality Assurance Specialist’s responsibilities are to provide consultancy services on implementation of globally accepted standards of mining extraction and mineral resources.

The Specialist will be responsible to coordinate support services, report on improvements and issues, enhance practices, ensure safety, following extraction and production related standards and safeguarding environment.

Duties and responsibilities are, but not limited to:

• Provide advisory services to the Directorate regarding the quality assurance of mining extraction.
• Assess data from extraction processes and ensuring the optimal implementation of extraction methods in accordance with technical and professional standards to prevent mineral wastages.
• Evaluate extraction data in accordance with the terms of contract, license, technical manuals, processes and ensuring safety and environmental measures in mining
• Analyze production status reports in comparison with capacity and approved plan. Recommend corrective actions for extraction methods if any defects or problems observed in execution processes
• Provide consultancy to mining technical inspectors for ensuring the proper execution of accepted standards and methods in mining.
• Provide support for effective and efficient operation of all activities undertaken by the Directorate.
• Provide support in developing and updating relevant manuals and procedures being used by the Directorate when required.
• Support the Directorate in implementation of relevant mining extraction manuals, and procedures as per international standards.
• Support in performing assessment and evaluation of practices, and providing recommendations for improvements.
• Provide advisory support in finalizing the periodical activities reports of the Directorate and/or prepare periodic reports as required by the Directorate.
• Attend management meeting organized by the Directorate and other departments of the MoMP when required.
• Plan, develop and manage on-the-job and other required specialized training programs to enhance the capacity building of the departmental staff in discharging the responsibilities stipulated in job description.

Education and Professional Qualification:

• Academic Qualification should at least be Bachelor Degree (relevant field i.e. Mining Exploration, Extraction & Engineering and other similar fields)
• Master’s degree in relevant field is preferred
• Professional Certification in the relevant field is an advantage.

Experience:

• Having at least Master’s degree or its equivalent with 5 years of working experience or bachelor’s degree with 7 years of working experience.

Language:

• Fluency in Dari, Pashto & English (Reading, Writing, and Speaking) is must.

 
Other Skills:

• Proven inter-personal skills

• Excellent communication skills
• Good computer operating skills (MS. Office) 
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Ability to work according to tight deadlines
• Proficient at detailed report writing and presentation
• Ability to analyze bulk of data

• Please send your CV and Cover Letter to the email address below not later than 0724/2025 at 16:00pm. Please write in subject line: “Mining Extraction & Exploitation Quality Assurance Specialist./
• Note: only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.