Job Reference Number: ZCCM-117
Department: Company Secretarial
Business Unit:
Industry: Professional
Job Type: Temp
Positions Available: 10
Salary: Market Related

Job Description

The Company invites applications from suitably qualified and experienced professionals and business practitioners to be considered for appointment as non-executive Representative Directors of ZCCM-IH on some Investee Companies.

Summary of Duties and Obligations of Representative Directors

1. The   Representative   Directors will   be expected to exercise   their business judgement to act in what they reasonably believe to be in the best interest of the Investee Company and     ZCCM-IH and specifically to ensure ZCCM-IH’s investment value is enhanced and protected.
2. In discharging this duty and obligation, the Representative Directors will be expected to rely on the honesty and integrity of the Company’s senior executives, its outside advisors, auditors and also on their own experience and analysis of core business.
3. Representative Directors will be expected to attend Board and Committee meetings and to spend the necessary time needed to discharge their responsibilities. The Representative Directors will be expected to cause the receipt of the Board Packs in due before the date of the meetings to facilitate adequate preparation.
4. The Representative Directors will submit of the meetings and events attended pertaining to the Investee Company, highlighting the critical issues, outcomes, resolutions and any proposals deemed necessary.

Job Requirements

Qualifications, Experience and General Competences of Representative Directors

The requirements for one to be considered for appointment as a Representative Director include the following:

1. 1. At least an undergraduate degree from a respected university or equivalent. A Master’s or Doctoral Degree will be an added advantage.
   2.  These educational criteria will not exclude candidates who do not meet these academic criteria but have other demonstrated capabilities, including the successful establishment and management of businesses, leadership of profitable enterprises or other verifiable accomplishments that would add value to ZCCM-IH.
   3. Extensive management experience of more than ten (10) years at a Senior level. Exposure to an international environment will be an added advantage.
   4. Exposure in an international environment will be an added advantage.
   5. Ability to read, understand and offer suggestions and comments on financial statements;
   6. Demonstrate competences in strategic planning and business leadership.
   7. Self-starter with visible leadership skills and the ability to be persuasive and persevering under, sometimes, trying circumstances.
   8. Knowledge of the mining sector will be an added advantage.
   9. Have no material relationship and or conflict of interest with the Company or any of its Investee Companies.
   10. Sufficient applicable experience to understand fully the legal and other responsibilities of an independent director of a company based in Zambia.

Suitably qualified women candidates are urged to apply as due consideration will be given to them in an effort to improve representation of women on the Boards.

Duration of appointment and remuneration

The appointment will be for a period of three years. Continued representation will purely be based on results of the annual assessments of performance of the Representative Director against goals and objectives agreed with ZCCM-IH.

The Representative Director will be remunerated according to the fee structure existing at the Investee Company on whose Board he/she is appointed.

Submission of applications

Interested professionals and business practitioners should submit signed applications addressed to The Company Secretary, ZCCM Investments Holdings PLC, Lusaka with detailed curriculum vitae indicating contact telephone number or e-mail address, together with names and contact address of three traceable referees and copies of educational and professional qualifications online before 30th June 2026.

ONLY ONLINE APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED