OECD - Change & Communication Lead

Principal Advisor – OECD Digital Project, Communications & Change Management

• Be part of a collaborative and high performing global project team
• 12-month fixed term permanent opportunity
• Brisbane Location working Monday to Friday with flexible working arrangements

About the role

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

As Australia is a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation & Development (OECD), 130 countries and jurisdictions, representing more than 90% of global GDP, have agreed on a new framework for international tax reform. This new regime impacts planning and decision-making across all of our assets and countries in which we have a presence.A Global project team has been established to help understand the impact, prepare for implementation and to identify opportunities for the group. We are looking for a Principal Advisor, OECD Digital Project (Change & Communications) to join our vibrant, diverse team on a contract opportunity reporting to the GM – OECD Digital Project, this role’s primary accountabilities are to: 

• Prepare a change management program to support the implementation of the new OECD digital tax measures
• Drafting communications materials, including employee communications, key messages for leaders, project updates
• Providing communications support to internal projects focused on streamlining and systemising processes.
• Strategizing change communications
• Reviewing the existing internal channels (newsletters, social media, global channels) and provide recommendations on where improvements can be made to increase employee engagement 
• This includes planning, creative thinking, and writing to deliver the right approach
• Work closely with cross-functional teams across countries, functions and hierarchies, while delivering within tight deadlines, with great quality and smooth implementation.
• Advising the Steering Committee and senior leaders with project wide messaging

What you will bring

• Tertiary qualifications in related discipline
• Experience in running large change management programs
• Effective influencing skills when engaging with senior leaders internally and externally
• Superior written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated proficiency across a wide variety of audiences and constituencies
• Strong creative copywriting skills across a range of styles including media releases, speeches and social/digital content
• Experience in developing and executing communication strategies, for proactive initiatives and to manage issues
• Extensive experience in government or business in stakeholder management
• A wealth of progressive experience in corporate and media relations
• It will also be beneficial if you have:
  • Demonstrated experience in project management and working through a global networked organization in achieving results.
  • Strong analytical and policy development skills 

What we offer 

Be recognised for your contribution and thinking, hard work, and go home knowing you have 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.

Every Voice Matters  

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. 

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.

Applications close on 12^th September 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)