Principal Advisor, Responsible Sourcing (Human Rights)

Principal Advisor, Responsible Sourcing (Human Rights)

• Join a talented, caring and collaborative team, committed to achieving positive social outcomes and personal and professional growth and development
• Opportunity to engage and influence internally and externally 
• Rio Tinto hub-based location: Brisbane or Perth 

About the role

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

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, Responsible Sourcing to join our global CSP AoE team to advance Rio Tinto’s human rights due diligence across its value chain. Reporting to the Chief Advisor, Strategy and Human Rights, this is a great opportunity for a dedicated professional seeking to build their human rights experience in a global company. You will be:

• Helping develop and implement our responsible sourcing strategy
• Working with our businesses globally regarding human rights in the value chain including the supply chain
• Supporting the implementation of the Human Rights governance framework as it relates to responsible sourcing, including risk and assurance processes and reporting systems
• Raising internal awareness, and contributing to the development of training materials for a range of stakeholders 
• Monitoring emerging human rights and responsible sourcing trends 
• Contributing to the company’s CSP and human rights reporting including the Modern Slavery Statement
• Supporting the company’s participation in human rights benchmarking and responsible sourcing initiatives (with a focus on social and human rights related issues)
• Liaising with multiple functions to support third party due diligence on human rights amongst other responsible business conduct issues 

What you’ll bring

A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Knowledge of responsible sourcing and human rights
• Experience developing and/or leading responsible sourcing programs
• Global experience, preferably in the extractive sector
• Strong collaborator and team player
• Advanced communications, influencing and mediation skills
• Values driven, high integrity

What we offer

With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting. We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. 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’ll be working

Our approach to Communities and Social Performance (CSP) is to build strong partnerships based on a relationship of mutual trust and respect. This includes the way we engage with communities and the steps we take to identify and manage social, economic, environmental, cultural, and human rights impacts throughout the life cycle of our projects, from exploration, to project development, to operation and closure.

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 Friday 9 September 2022. (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.