Position Title: Project Director, Responsible Critical Minerals
Location: Chile or Argentina with regular travel between locations
ABOUT WINROCK INTERNATIONAL:
Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that empowers communities, expands economic opportunity, strengthens institutions, and sustains natural resources. Winrock seeks a full-time Project Director to lead an anticipated project advancing labor standards compliance and transparency in critical mineral supply chains in Argentina and Chile.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Project Director will provide overall technical, managerial, financial, and representational leadership for a cooperative agreement focused on copper, lithium, and/or silver supply chains. The position will guide strategies that reduce labor-related risks, strengthen fair and reliable mineral supply, and link improved labor standards in Argentina and Chile to resilient U.S. manufacturing.
The Project Director will lead a multi-country team and partners working with government, employers, mining and processing companies, contractors, workers, civil society, and other stakeholders, and will serve as the primary point of contact with the funder in coordination with Winrock’s Home Office.
ESSENTIAL Responsibilities:
Technical Leadership
- Lead an evidence-based theory of change linking stronger labor standards and supply chain transparency to reliable supply for U.S. manufacturers and benefits for American jobs and wages.
- Oversee technical assistance to labor and government institutions to strengthen enforcement gaps, inspectorate transparency and integrity, and risk-based enforcement in mining, refining, and processing.
- Guide assurance, due diligence, traceability, and transparency approaches aligned with international standards and U.S. manufacturer needs.
Stakeholder Engagement and Partnerships
- Maintain relationships with national and subnational labor and mining authorities in Argentina and Chile while avoiding duplication of government responsibilities.
- Engage workers, worker organizations, employers, industry associations, civil society, communities, research institutions, U.S. Government representatives, and other relevant actors.
- Manage subrecipients, contractors, and technical partners, including roles, performance, compliance, risk, and integration into project strategy.
Project Management
- Lead start-up, work planning, implementation, closeout, and orderly termination procedures if required.
- Translate strategy into sequenced work packages, milestones, targets, responsibilities, and budgets aligned across planning, monitoring, technical, and country-budget documents.
- Oversee monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning to define outcomes, verify milestones, ensure data quality, and adapt implementation.
- Ensure timely submission of high-quality technical deliverables, progress reports, economic impact narratives, financial reports, and final/closeout reports.
Financial, Operational, and Award Compliance
- Oversee budget management, country allocations, expenditures, forecasting, controls, procurement, subawards, and financial performance.
- Ensure compliance with the cooperative agreement, funder requirements, Winrock policies, and country requirements.
- Oversee recruitment, onboarding, supervision, and staff development to build a collaborative, accountable, results-focused team.
- Ensure project-funded products meet accessibility, communications, acknowledgment, records-retention, and open-licensing requirements.
Representation and Travel
