• Help create a long-lasting positive legacy
• Strategic opportunity within a newly established team
• Apply your broad social performance expertise
• Perth based with ad-hoc travel

Our approach to Communities and Social Performance is to build strong relationships based on the principles of mutual benefit, trust and respect. This includes the way we engage with communities and the steps we take to identify and manage social, economic, environmental, cultural, and human rights impacts throughout the life cycle of our projects, from exploration, to project development, to operation and closure.

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Senior Advisor, Strategy and Performance to join our Rio Tinto Iron Ore (RTIO) Communities and Social Performance (CSP) team to contribute to the development of CSP strategies and play a lead role in improving RTIO’s processes, policies and performance across a range of CSP areas such as social impact, human rights, regional economic development and consultation and engagement.

This role will work closely with Rio Tinto’s global CSP Area of Excellence (AoE) on these areas and provide guidance to the wider business.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Lead CSP Strategy and Performance within the CSP team, you will be:

• Supporting the implementation, review and evaluation of the 5-Year CSP Strategy for RTIO.
• As part of the strategy, delivering clear plans and priorities for CSP activity, and developing KPIs to track overall performance and enable continuous improvement.
• Working closely with CSP Area of Expertise to foster two-way knowledge sharing, including cascading CSP thought leadership through the function and operating as a subject matter expert on social performance.
• Leading projects to define best practice and uplift RTIO performance on key CSP capabilities/priorities such as social impact and risk assessments, human rights, regional economic development, social investment, stakeholder engagement etc.
• Conduct social scans to measure societal expectations around CSP & Life of mine (LoM) issues.
• Act as a thought leader, bringing innovation to the function, facilitating a culture of knowledge sharing and best practice

What you’ll bring

Previous experience within the resources sector is not a requirement. We appreciate experience gained from other industries such as not-for-profit organisations, consultancies, corporates, government and international bodies. Ideally, you will have:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• A genuine desire to make a difference to the way we work with communities and the impact we seek to have
• Relevant tertiary qualification
• Broad experience and technically strong within key areas of CSP
• Strong strategic thinking, project management and stakeholder engagement experience
• Research and analytical capability
• Experience working with Indigenous stakeholders and regional communities

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Company provided insurance cover
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers –generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium –the world’s first to be certified “responsible” –helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you’ll be working

Working Monday to Friday, you can base yourself at our head office in Perth CBD with the option to work remotely (from home). There will also be a requirement to travel from time-to-time.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome –they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

Applications close on Monday, 13th of December 2021 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).