Principal Advisor, Communities and Social Performance Reporting

Principal Advisor, Communities and Social Performance Reporting

• Manage the social performance reporting and data management requirements for the business’s annual and sustainability reporting
• Support the organisation’s commitment to meeting impeccable ESG commitments
• Increase your knowledge of Rio Tinto’s operations and build your professional network by working in a global role
• Locations - Perth, Brisbane or Montreal

About the role

Our approach to Communities and Social Performance (CSP) is to build strong partnerships based on mutual trust and respect. This includes meaningful engagement with host communities managing social, economic, environmental, cultural, and human rights impacts throughout the life cycle of our assets and delivering value to local communities and society more broadly.

Our Communities and Social Performance Area of Expertise (AoE) is Rio Tinto’s central technical CSP function. It provides support to the business to build respectful and trusted relationships with host communities and deliver sustainable improvements in social and economic outcomes. The CSP AoE works closely with CSP practitioners and leaders, in addition to related functions across the business to build technical capability, support social performance delivery, monitor and respond to emerging trends, and provide assurance and risk management. The CSP AoE works closely with HSES to maintain Rio Tinto’s management systems, standards and reporting processes.

We are looking for a Principal Advisor, CSP Reporting to join the assurance, risk, and governance stream within the AoE. The team oversees and ensures robust CSP assurance practice, well understood CSP risks and controls, and fit-for-purpose systems, standards and reporting.

We are a committed, connected and caring global team. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Manager CSP Assurance, Risk and Governance, you will:

• Manage group level social performance reporting and data management including; data collection, monitoring, trend analysis, planning and reporting
• Be responsible for data preparation for key reports including internal reporting to executive leaders
• Familiarity with sustainability reporting standards like GRI and understanding of forward looking trends
• Integrate core monitoring and control processes, including progress reporting, , resource requirements and budget management
• Develop the communication materials to support progress updates regarding CSP reporting and linked data collection improvement initiatives
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities (processes & systems) including design and development of data visualisation tools
• Lead a small team as required

What you’ll bring

• Extensive relevant experience in CSP, ESG reporting or related discipline
• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• An understanding of Communities and social performance technical discipline and the mining industry
• Experience working in the mining & resources or similar industry

• Demonstrated strong project management skills with an attention to detail
• Compliance, risk management and stakeholder engagement skills
• The ability to collaborate, develop, engage and bring out the best outcome within a team environment
• A desire to see improvements in social performance outcomes and meet requirements now and into the future
• Experience in sustainability (ESG) reporting and data analytics is highly desirable

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.

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.

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

Applications close on 9 March 2023. (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)