GM Communities & Social Performance

GM Communities & Social Performance

• Strategic leadership with a small global team accountability
• Acts as a thought leader bringing innovation to the CSP function for Closures
• Permanent role based in Brisbane or Perth with regular travel

About the role

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

Rio Tinto Closure (RTC) is the business that safely transforms Rio Tinto’s end of life mining, processing, and infrastructure assets. The RTC team collaborates with all parts of Rio Tinto across the asset life cycle to embed closure into the life of the asset; optimise closure execution; enhance Rio Tinto’s reputation and growth; and minimise long term liabilities and realise value. Core to this is focusing on the social outcomes at the end of our assets’ lives and their transition to next use.

RTC achieves this through collaboration with key internal and external partners, for effective development of asset closure vision, closure planning, external stakeholder relationships (Traditional owners, local communities, and Regulatory bodies) and commercial deals, coupled with delivery of closure execution through to relinquishment of the lease.

We are looking for a General Manager Communities & Social Performance to lead a small global team to build and maintain respectful and trusted relationships with the communities in the regions we work in, to deliver sustainable improvements, and social and economic outcomes. This role is a great opportunity to build on and evolve the strategies implemented to manage communities & social risks in the portfolio of legacy and closure- related work globally.

Reporting to the Global Head of Closure you will be accountable for:

• Developing and advising on strategic approaches to mitigate social risks and realise opportunities
• Ensuring that the team is achieving outcomes that are strategic, that enhance team member performance, and that ensures our Closures business is well positioned in the internal and external environments
• Maintaining leading practice guidance and providing advice and input to senior leaders on current and emerging social and human rights issues and regulatory trends
• Overseeing, monitoring and reporting of social performance to ensure quality and visibility of social incidents, complaints and grievances
• Overseeing and coaching teams on technical CSP aspects such as baseline and socio-economic impact assessments, complaints & grievances processes and social investment
• Building strong relationships with operational leadership and collaborating to achieve agreed business outcomes.
• Engaging with internal business stakeholders to lead and promote the principles of effective community engagement; the importance of establishing and maintaining social licence to operate; responsible management of land, and preservation of cultural and environmental values.
• Working collaboratively across the Corporate Relations function to achieve positive outcomes with government, media, NGOs and other stakeholders.

What you’ll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• A relevant tertiary qualification with a preferred Environmental, Social Science, CSP background
• A proven track record of managing external relations within the resources sector
• Previous experience in Closures and/ or stakeholder management
• An understanding of the impacts mining and processing activities can have on host communities, specifically on Indigenous and land-connected people
• Experience in building effective internal and external relationships and demonstrated flexibility and respect in the way they interact with all levels of the business
• A high level of cultural sensitivity and understanding coupled with a desire to improve inclusion and diversity within the business
• Experience with developing and maintaining effective relationships with key external stakeholders and colleagues at different levels of the business
• The ability to seamlessly manage competing priorities using your time and energy wisely to achieve results
• The ability to collaborate cross-functionally and understanding how to be effective in a globally matrix organisation
• The ability to think and act strategically including challenging standard practices
• Strong interpersonal skills including written and oral communication

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 will be working

Rio Tinto Closure safely transforms Rio Tinto’s end of life mining, processing and infrastructure assets by developing innovative and sustainable solutions to leave a positive closure legacy. We collaborate with all parts of Rio Tinto to focus on maximizing post operational opportunities, de-risking and reducing the scale of closure liabilities and executing existing and near-term closures at optimal cost.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Applications close on Friday 9^th July (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)