Advisor Communities

Advisor Communities

• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development

• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits

• Family friendly coastal lifestyle

About the role

We are seeking a proactive, community-focused individual to join our team as an Advisor Communities. This role is offered on a 5 days on, 2 days off, 4 days on, 3 days off roster, providing the ideal work–life balance. Based in Karratha, your key focus will be supporting the town of Wickham in its technical community and social performance activities.

Working closely with internal teams and external stakeholders, you will help shape and deliver engagement strategies, contribute to compliance processes, and support social investment initiatives.

This is an exciting opportunity to make a real impact in regional communities through meaningful engagement, event coordination, and long-term partnership development.

Reporting to Superintendent WA Communities, key responsibilities include: 

• Coordinate and support the delivery of community events and festivals, including contractor management, logistics, and communication planning to successfully close out the annual community plan 

• Contribute to the Pilbara Communities annual planning process, including stakeholder engagement scheduling and coordination. 

• Assist in developing the Annual Events Roadmap, including event themes, internal participation, and promotional materials. 

• Build and maintain strong relationships with local community groups to identify needs and respond to emerging opportunities or concerns. 

• Provide a local presence in both inland and coastal communities to deliver informal consultation and represent Rio Tinto at community forums. 

• Assist with stakeholder mapping, social risk assessments, and the execution of localised actions that support the delivery of community plans. 

• Coordinate project delivery and local partnerships, ensuring milestones are met and value is delivered through effective planning, coordination, and performance reporting 

• Foster trusted relationships between internal teams and external partners to align community engagement efforts with organisational priorities and strategic goals 

• Contribute to the successful rollout of community giving initiatives, supporting grant administration and stakeholder engagement 

About You 

You are passionate about making a positive impact in regional communities. Whether you come from a background in community development, project coordination, stakeholder engagement, or Indigenous affairs, you bring empathy, integrity, and strong organisational skills to your work.

You thrive in collaborative environments, can adapt to changing priorities, and are committed to building respectful and lasting relationships with diverse communities and stakeholders. 

To succeed in this role, you will ideally bring: 

• Experience in planning and project management, with the ability to coordinate multiple priorities and deliver outcomes. 

• An understanding of community and social performance (CSP) planning, monitoring, and reporting processes. 

• Knowledge of community and social investment, including working with funding programs and long-term partnerships. 

• A deep respect for and connection to Country, and/or experience working with Indigenous communities in a culturally appropriate way. 

• Familiarity with government relations or experience navigating government frameworks, policies, or funding. 

• Experience supporting or managing community partnership agreements, including documentation and relationship management. 

• Skills in responding to community feedback, including managing complaints, grievances, and sensitive issues with care. 

• A collaborative and inclusive approach, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

If you are excited about the role and think you have what it takes but your experience doesn't align 100% we still want to hear from you. 

We are committed to promoting diversity within Rio Tinto and as a special measure to we strongly encourage women to apply.

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 

• Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia 

• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus 

• 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, cultural leave) 

• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them 

• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more.

We are committed to elevating Indigenous voices and increasing cultural knowledge in our business. Diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together. To help you on your journey with us, you’ll also have access to:

• Specialist Indigenous Support Advisors who are always there for our Indigenous employees and available to support through any aspect of your employment

• Dedicated Indigenous Talent Program for our Operators and Tradespersons and entry level operational roles. This programme is designed to create long term sustainable careers for our Indigenous Employees to grow into leadership or technical pathways to ensure you have every opportunity to grow your career

• Indigenous leadership programs across some professional and operational roles to ensure that we are developing Indigenous Leaders

Ready to experience something unique? Come work with us.

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About Rio TintoRio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Every Voice MattersAt 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.