Principal Advisor, Social Risk

Principal Advisor, Social Risk

• Support the development of strong social performance outcomes
• Work as part of a dynamic and supportive global team in an area of high importance
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development - Perth or Brisbane

About the role

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

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.

We are looking for a Principal Advisor Social Risk to join the Systems, Standards and Assurance stream within our Communities and Social Performance Area of Expertise. This team oversees and ensures robust CSP assurance practice, well understood CSP risks and controls, and fit-for-purpose systems, standards and reporting.

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. 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 and working alongside a collaborative and diverse team, within Communities and Social Performance Area of Expertise, you will:

• Coordinate across the CSP AoE, Product Groups and Risk teams to enable the business to effectively manage social risks
• Provide technical guidance on social risk
• Support development and delivery of specific Group-level risk frameworks, systems, projects and reporting
• Support risk capability development across the Function
• Support data collation, ensuring a high-level of data integrity
• Work closely to support the CSP AoE team to deliver assurance
• Convene and support internal risk and governance workshops
• Build strong relationships with internal core stakeholders including Risk Business Partners

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety and wellbeing of yourself and your team
• A degree qualification or equivalent in a relevant field or discipline
• Compliance and assurance management experience
• Social risk & impact management experience is desirable
• Business analysis and reporting experience
• Collaborative and agile work ethic and ability to manage multiple stakeholder relationships
• Highly developed communication skills

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, you're 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 Communities and Social Performance Area of Expertise (AoE) is Rio Tinto’s Technical CSP function. It provides support to the business to build respectful and trusted partnerships with host communities that deliver sustainable improvements in social and economic outcomes. The CSP AoE works with CSP practitioners and leaders across the business to set standards, build capability, support social performance delivery, monitor and respond to emerging trends, and provide assurance and risk management. The AoE also maintains Rio Tinto’s management systems, CSP standards and reporting process.

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 Thursday the 13th of October 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)