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Work arrangement: Remote within the United States, with potential international travel throughout the Indo-Pacific
Engagement: Contingent, part-time/on-call specialist
Anticipated compensation: $150-$300 per hour, depending on qualifications and assignment, or a negotiated fixed price by work package. $300 per hour is the maximum anticipated rate.
Opportunity
Axyde Analytics is assembling a multidisciplinary expert team for anticipated U.S. government-funded project-scoping assignments involving critical minerals and international infrastructure.
We seek senior specialists with direct mining, mineral-processing, regulatory and stakeholder experience across the Indo-Pacific. The role will translate country, institutional, industrial-policy and implementation conditions into practical project-scoping and investment recommendations.
Potential assignments may involve resources, mines, processing plants, refineries, recycling facilities, battery or magnet-material facilities, enabling infrastructure or multi-country supply chains. The specialist may serve as an assignment lead, regional lead, contributor, alternate or independent reviewer.
Regional Coverage of Interest
Particularly relevant country experience includes:

• Australia
• India
• Indonesia
• Japan
• Malaysia
• Mongolia
• New Zealand
• Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Republic of Korea
• Singapore
• Thailand
• Vietnam
• Pacific Island countries

Applicants are not expected to possess equal depth across every country. They should identify the jurisdictions in which they have direct, current and decision-relevant experience.
Specialist Tracks
We are recruiting experts in one or more of the following tracks:

• Mining and mineral-processing project development
• Mining codes, concessions and mineral rights
• Environmental and social permitting
• Foreign-investment, ownership and localization requirements
• Industrial policy and downstream-processing mandates
• Government, ministry and state-owned-enterprise engagement
• Community, Indigenous and land-access matters
• Responsible sourcing, provenance and supply-chain traceability
• Political, regulatory and implementation-risk assessment
• Power, water, roads, railways, ports and maritime logistics
• Sponsor governance and institutional capacity
• Regional battery, magnet and advanced-material supply chains
• Development-finance and export-credit engagement
• U.S. commercial participation and export opportunities
• Asian- or Pacific-language technical engagement
• International field missions and stakeholder coordination

Potential Responsibilities
Depending on the assignment, selected specialists may:

• Interpret country-specific mining, investment, environmental and permitting requirements.
• Identify relevant ministries, regulators, geological institutions, utilities and subnational authorities.
• Evaluate concessions, title, land access, ownership, localization, export bans and domestic-processing requirements.
• Assess realistic approval sequences, institutional capacity and implementation timelines.
• Analyze industrial policies affecting mining, refining, batteries, magnets and advanced materials.
• Identify political, governance, security, trade and regulatory risks affecting project execution.
• Evaluate community, Indigenous, labor, livelihood and social-license considerations.
• Assess responsible-sourcing, provenance and chain-of-custody requirements.
• Evaluate maritime logistics, ports, shipping routes, utilities and regional infrastructure constraints.
• Support review of sponsors, state-owned entities, governance structures and local relationships.
• Distinguish formal legal requirements from practical implementation conditions.
• Identify country-specific information gaps and appropriate sources for validation.
• Support sponsor, government, Embassy, supplier, customer and financing-source engagement.
• Plan and support international meetings, site visits and field verification.
• Conduct or support professional discussions in relevant regional languages where qualified.
• Integrate regional findings with geological, technical, environmental, commercial and financial analyses.
• Identify realistic opportunities and barriers for U.S. companies.
• Contribute to feasibility-study or technical-assistance terms of reference, budgets and schedules.
• Prepare concise country, stakeholder and implementation findings for senior government decision-makers.
• Serve as an assignment lead, regional lead, contributor, same-region alternate or independent reviewer.

Required Qualifications
Candidates should possess:

• At least 7-10 years of directly relevant experience involving mining, mineral processing, infrastructure, regulation, investment or project development in the Indo-Pacific.
• Direct professional experience in multiple Indo-Pacific jurisdictions or exceptional depth in one or more priority countries.
• Demonstrated ability to connect country and stakeholder conditions to project feasibility, schedule, cost, risk and financeability.
• Experience engaging government agencies, state-owned enterprises, project sponsors, communities, engineering firms, investors, lenders or development institutions.
• Professional capability in an Asian or Pacific language is highly desirable.
• Strong written and verbal English-language communication skills.
• Ability to produce concise, decision-oriented analysis for senior government or commercial audiences.
• Ability to collaborate across technical, environmental, commercial and financial disciplines.
• Either U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent-resident status in the United States.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.
• Willingness and ability to travel throughout the Indo-Pacific when an assignment requires it.
• No known employment, confidentiality, intellectual-property, noncompete or conflict-of-interest restriction that would prevent participation.

Experience with critical minerals, international development, feasibility studies, industrial policy, export finance, development-finance institutions or U.S. government-funded projects is particularly valuable.
Application Information Requested
Please submit a résumé and a brief response identifying:

1. The Indo-Pacific countries in which you have direct professional experience.
2. Your strongest mining, regulatory, stakeholder, infrastructure, industrial-policy or commercial specialties.
3. Up to five representative projects, assignments or transactions and your personal responsibilities on each.
4. The government agencies, state-owned entities, stakeholder groups and commercial parties with which you have worked.
5. Your professional language capabilities.
6. Your experience leading international teams, field missions or senior stakeholder engagements.
7. Whether you can serve as an assignment lead, regional lead, independent reviewer, or a combination of these functions.
8. Your current U.S. location.
9. Whether you are a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.
10. Your availability during the next 30 days.
11. Your ability to travel internationally and any geographic restrictions.
12. Your anticipated hourly rate.
13. Any actual or potential conflicts involving governments, state-owned entities, project sponsors, mining companies, investors, lenders, engineering firms or current employers.

Engagement Conditions
This is a contingent opportunity supporting anticipated government-funded assignments. No employment, contract award, minimum workload or particular assignment is guaranteed.
Selection for an assignment will depend on contract award, country and project requirements, qualifications, language capability, availability, eligibility, conflicts, travel requirements, mutually acceptable compensation and execution of appropriate employment or consulting documentation.
Axyde may tailor and reformat selected résumés for proposal compliance without materially changing the candidate's qualifications or experience.
Axyde Analytics
Strategic minerals •Supply-chain security •U.S. industrial base