Communications Advisor

Advisor Communications

• Role based at our Central Park office in Perth.
• Use your skills and creativity to take a multichannel approach that engages our people and communities.
• Help demonstrate our values of Care, Courage and Curiosity.
• Support our vision to be the most valued resource business and a company that puts people at our heart.

About The Role

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

We are looking for a vibrant and innovative Communications Advisor to enhance Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s communications and engagement with our Western Australian workforce and across the communities in which we operate.

This role supports the Lead External Affairs & Communications (EA&C) on wide-ranging corporate and external affairs, and internal and digital communications.

Key duties include

• Support business-wide corporate affairs and communications, including all-employee Town Hall events and webcasts, and employee and leader communications and updates.
• Coordinate an engaging monthly employee newsletter, using a creative lens to continually improve readership.
• Identify creative and innovative ways to share positive stories across our wide-ranging channels.
• Create engaging social content for closed Facebook groups and LinkedIn, as well as for other internal channels.
• Produce creative content using Canva, Adobe Suite or similar platforms.
• Manage and maintain an annual planner of business-wide events and opportunities.
• Oversee and advise on the effectiveness of our communications channels and coordinate metrics reporting.
• Support the implementation of business-wide Communications Plans.
• Identify and escalate potentially contentious issues.
• Maintain EA&C’s procedures, guidelines, templates, tools and repositories.
• Other duties, as required.

 About You

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Strong writing and editing skills, with impeccable attention to detail and accuracy.
• A track record in improving readership and engagement for newsletters, publications or socials platforms.
• A background devising creative ways to customise engaging content for different channels and audiences.
• Experience increasing engagement and membership of social media accounts (and moderating), particularly closed Facebook groups and Linkedin.
• The ability to easily adopt new communications tools and technologies and being ‘tech-savvy’ (experience with platforms such as Hootsuite, Canva, EDMs, iMovie or Adobe Suite).
• Exceptional organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and timeframes.
• Strong communication / interpersonal skills to influence stakeholders and build effective partnerships.
• A drive and eagerness to enter a high-performing, creative team.

It will be beneficial if you have experience:

• Working in corporate communications and as a journalist
• In filming

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• 18 weeks of gender-neutral and equal paid parental leave, with continued superannuation contributions whilst employees are on unpaid or half paid parental leave
• 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); and
• Local relocation packages offered for Australian residents only

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 will be working

This role is based in Rio Tinto’s Perth head office at Central Park in the Perth CBD.

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 people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Applications close on 28^th February 2023  (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)