Officer Communities & Social Performance

Officer Communities & Social Performance - Exploration

• Join an innovative Exploration team unlocking new opportunities throughout Western Australia
• Working closely with the Nyangumarta and Martu Traditional Owners on their Exclusive Native Title lands in the Great Sandy Desert
• Perth based opportunity | Monday to Friday | Planned & ad hoc field-time as required

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

At Rio Tinto Exploration (RTX), we are charged with ensuring successful entry for Rio Tinto into new areas, being the first in our business to engage with our community stakeholders, consulting in good faith and building enduring, positive relationships based on mutual benefit and trust.

We are looking for an Officer, Communities and Social Performance to join the Communities and Social Performance team facilitating cultural heritage and land access requirements at Rio Tinto Exploration’s Paterson Regional project.

This role is a great opportunity to engage at a grass roots level with key stakeholders (especially Traditional Owners, land councils, representative bodies and consultants) to co-ordinate and conduct cultural heritage surveys and related community engagement activities. The role offers great diversity and a supportive exploration team. You will be:

• Coordinating heritage and community field work including assisting with logistics, vehicle and heritage survey preparation.
• Building effective relationships with Traditional Owners, representative bodies, consultants, internal and external stakeholders.
• Planning of equipment, daily activities and safety requirements in the field.
• Utilising navigation devices/platforms for safety and survey planning and execution.
• Preparing and implementing Trip Plans, scheduled call-ins, Project Emergency Response plans (PERPs)
• Assisting with supervising the on-ground requirements enabling delivery of the heritage survey program, supporting teams of up to 14 people for 11 consecutive days at a time.
• Compliance activities relating to Communities & Social Performance standards, Access Agreements, heritage and other commitments.
• Assisting with heritage survey scoping, survey outcomes and related project implementation

What you’ll bring:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and others, creating and maintaining a safe workplace
• Experience in and a culturally sensitive approach to, working with Indigenous communities
• Demonstrated experience working safely both independently and as part of a team in an exploration field-based environment
• Functional use of navigation devices, GIS data management and map making skills desirable
• Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills including the ability to build relationships
• Attention to detail and an ability to problem solve
• C Class driver's license

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 & 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)

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’ll be working

Rio Tinto's Exploration group seeks to create value for the business by discovering or acquiring new mineral resources. Organised into four regional teams (Americas, Australasia, Africa-Europe and Eurasia), the Exploration group provides both a global reach and a local presence across a range of commodities including bauxite, copper, iron ore, nickel and uranium.

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

Applications close on Monday 13^th February (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).