Advisor Indigenous Talent

Indigenous Talent Advisor

• Be the difference – identify, engage, and support Indigenous talent to join Rio Tinto
• Permanent fulltime opportunity in a collaborative team environment
• Perth or Pilbara based with opportunity for adhoc travel to site and regional and remote communities

Our approach to Communities and Social Performance (CSP) is to build strong partnerships based on a relationship of mutual 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.

Our approach is to build strong partnerships based on a relationship of mutual 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.

Reporting to the Superintendent Indigenous talent within the Indigenous Talent & career readiness team we are seeking an Indigenous Talent Advisor to engage with Indigenous talent and increase our Indigenous participation across Rio Tinto Iron Ore. Responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the integration of Rio Tinto’s Indigenous Participation Strategy initiatives facilitated by the Indigenous talent team.
• Work closely with the Iron Ore business to review Indigenous participation and support activities at an asset-level alongside key stakeholders.
• Engaging with communities and community-based organisations (Prescribed Body Corporates, Job Active Networks, VTECs, schools/education partners) to conduct targeted community engagement and sourcing activities.
• Connecting with non-Government organisation partners to identify local Indigenous talent and transition them into the RTIO talent pipeline.
• Face to face candidate engagement/career coaching conversations.
• Providing support to our hiring leaders regarding culturally inclusive recruitment practices and processes.

What you’ll bring

• Commitment to creating and maintaining a culturally safe workplace.
• Proven experience in stakeholder engagement, project management and business improvement.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• An understanding of current human resource processes and practices, Indigenous participation and people strategies and their implementation.
• Experience in managing multiple stakeholders (internal and external), commitments and conflicting demands.
• Flexible and adaptive approach to fluctuating workloads and priorities.
• Ability to develop relationships at all levels of the organisation.
• Effective influencing skills and strong analytical/problem solving skills.
• Experience working with Indigenous people and communities.
• Experience supporting candidates with career pathways and recruitment processes.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, thinking and 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 and salary packaging options.
• Career development and 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 witha 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. 

Every Voice Matters

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.

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

Applications close on Monday, 17 October 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).