Discrete Unit Manager – Business Conduct Office

Discrete Unit Manager – Business Conduct Office

• Be a part of a capable and supportive global team with a flexible and caring work culture
• Be part of a global mining organisation where everyone is valued and respected
• Permanent role based in Perth or Brisbane

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Discrete Unit Manager reporting to the Chief Business Conduct Officer. In this role you will be responsible for leadership, supervision, and overall responsibility for the Discrete Unit Team globally. The Discrete Unit Team is a newly created team that will facilitate holistic end to end support, care, resolution, and healing for people impacted by harmful and disrespectful behaviours (including sexual harassment, sexual assault, discrimination, racism and other behaviours).

At Rio Tinto, we value Everyday Respect, and we are striving to eliminate disrespectful and harmful behaviours from our business. While our culture evolves and our preventative programs progress, we know that true culture change takes time and that for the time being, our team will ensure our employees have access to care, support and wellbeing offerings that are people centric, and trauma informed.

You will work with various stakeholder groups across all levels of the organisation to promote the rights and address the needs of anyone impacted by harmful and disrespectful behaviours. This includes impacted people, those accused, witnesses, bystanders, leaders, human resources, and others. You will have excellent communication and people skills and the ability to network and build relationships. You will also demonstrate resilience, a focus on self-care for both you and your team and the ability to navigate sensitive discussions. You understand the importance of systems and processes to drive consistency and efficiency and you can demonstrate your ability to identify, drive and deliver improvements. You must display exemplary and unquestionable personal integrity and have the ability to take a firm but fair stand, displaying enthusiastic persistence when solving complex issues.

Are you a strategic thinker with an authentic and values-based approach? Are you passionate about helping others succeed through mentoring and coaching? If so, this is a wonderful opportunity for you to make a real difference and to contribute to a caring and people centric response to resolving misconduct concerns. 

You will be responsible for:

• Leading and developing a global team of support specialists (internal and contractors)
• Raising awareness and visibility of the Discrete Unit, and options and support available.
• Ensuring end to end advice, support, care, resolution, and healing is facilitated in accordance with the Rio Tinto trauma-informed, people centric Discrete Unit processes and always conducted to the highest standards including confidentiality, respect, and empathy.
• Collaborating effectively with a variety of internal stakeholders within our business units, product groups and functions in relation to the Discrete Unit processes with a focus on continuous improvement, best practice and eradicating these behaviours from our business.
• Working effectively with other members of the Business Conduct Office adopting a one team approach, to continually improve, gather feedback, and deliver best practice processes
• Coaching and empowering leaders to appropriately respond in a professional and people centric way.
• Managing, setting expectations, and reviewing performance of external service providers, negotiating and monitoring spend, standardising letters of engagement and maintaining a budget
• Gathering evidence-based insights, data and analyses around harmful and disrespectful behaviours and working with the BCO Reporting and Governance Team to develop strategies to address emerging issues identified with the relevant business and functional areas.
• Working with the Ethical Strategist to ensure the Discrete Unit services meet and exceed best practice and respond in a timely manner to changing societal expectations.
• Contribute to discussions to identify organizational and environmental factors relevant to findings and to assist the business with the Corrective and Preventative Action process and as it relates to ongoing risk mitigation and process optimization strategies
• Pro-actively contribute to the ongoing development of the Discrete Unit processes, capture of organisational learnings, stakeholder engagement and feedback loop
• The delivery of measurable outcomes and improvements

 About you

To succeed in this role, it is preferred you will have:

• Strong academic background (eg Degree in Social Sciences and/or Assistance, Human Resources, Psychology, Social Work or other Social Sciences)
• Strong understanding of case management, care and/or mental health
• Be a subject matter expert on how to manage and respond to harmful and disrespectful behaviours for Rio Tinto, with deep experience around care and case management and counselling.
• Understanding and experience in delivering frontline change management in a matrixed organisation
• Deep capacity for empathy and respect
• Deep knowledge of trauma informed care principles
• Significant experience in leading teams, preferably global teams
• Demonstrated working knowledge of legal requirements as they relate to concerns of harmful and disrespectful behaviours including Whistleblower protection laws, data privacy obligations, work health safety legislation and other relevant requirements
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Knowledge of internal control frameworks
• Excellent organisational skills including time management and record keeping

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 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)

Where you will be working

You will be part of a global team forming the Rio Tinto Business Conduct Office. The mission of the Business Conduct Office is to provide a trusted, caring and human centred response to disrespectful and harmful behaviours, and other behaviours, and to empower Rio Tinto to eliminate misconduct by sharing the learnings, recommendations and outcomes of our investigations and response. We contribute to an effective business integrity compliance program across the Rio Tinto Group to ensure all employees and third parties working on behalf of Rio Tinto, conduct business in an ethical and compliant manner within all countries where we operate.

Complying with Rio Tinto’s code of conduct (The Way We Work), policies and standards as they relate to business integrity and workplace conduct are key priorities of our team. The BCO team also has responsibility for Rio Tinto’s Whistleblower program known as myVoice and investigations globally.

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.

Every voice matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTQI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from diverse 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 valued.

Applications close on Friday 27 January 2023. (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.