Director, Corporate Exploration

Summary Description of Duties:

• Role Purpose: as a leader in the Corporate Exploration team to identify, discover, acquire and economically evaluate new exploration opportunities
• To execute on the Corporation’s exploration strategy
• To initiate, establish and manage exploration activities on new Corporate Exploration projects and to deliver resources and reserves that meet the Corporation’s growth objectives

Areas of responsibility:

• Lead the execution of exploration strategies on new properties to help ensure that the Corporation’s growth objectives are met
• Ranks and prioritizes exploration initiatives to ensure value for each exploration dollar invested.
• Manages the human, financial and operational resources on new Corporate Exploration projects -Responsible for generative and due diligence programs for all exploration conducted in new exploration regions.
• Formulates annual operating and capital budgets for new Corporate Exploration programs.
• Liaising and working with government agencies and officials on land and permitting issues.
• Liaison with local communities and facilitate land access agreements with surface land owners to carry out exploration programs
• Supports Corporate Development initiatives including property evaluations and recommendations, ensures the approach to evaluations is standardized and that exploration activities are effectively integrated with other department initiatives
• Prepares and presents results and data in the form of reports, maps and management presentations.

Qualifications

Skill requirements:

• 15-20 years with experience managing multi-drill exploration and evaluation projects
• Understanding of global gold metallogeny, deposit models and exploration methodology from grass-roots to feasibility evaluations
• Bi-lingual (Spanish/Portuguese/Russian/English) preferred
• Ability to understand and interpret resource block model estimations and identify quality projects from large amounts of exploration data.
• Database management skills, understanding of QAQC protocols and procedures that meet industry standards
• Ability to lead and mentor exploration staff, directing laborers and coordinating contract service providers
• Understanding of the exploration and mining landscape including mining law and competitor activity
• Knowledge of deal structures and the junior exploration environment General:
• Position based in Toronto
• Computer literate and competency with GIS/resource modeling software.

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