Senior Advisor Global Leadership Communications and Projects

Senior Advisor Global Leadership Communications and Projects

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion.
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development.
• Join a leading global company.
• Role could be based in Brisbane or Perth

About the role 

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Senior Advisor Global Leadership Communications and Projects who will play a critical role in managing the quarterly Leadership Matters Live events, support the regular Leadership Collective conferences, create leader packs with onward engagement and manage leadership announcements. Ensuring our communication to our leaders is clear, consistent, relevant and timely, such that key messages reach our leaders effectively, and so our leaders are empowered to effectively lead their team.

This is a great opportunity for a structured and organised thinker who is comfortable working at pace. Reporting to the Director Global Culture, Employee and Leadership Communications, you will be: 

• Supporting the development and implementation of our Employee Communications strategy by managing all our key leadership communication
• Running the quarterly Leadership Matters live virtual events, so that our leaders understand and feel connected to our performance and the levers contributing to results
• Supporting on the regular Leadership Collective Events events for our Top 700 leaders
• Manage Leader announcements, as needed
• Support on Leadership Matters, as needed
• Manage culture projects as needed to support our cultural transformation
• Support our Strategy Matters events for our top 100 leaders
• Work in partnership with our PG and functional partners, so ensure we utilise all leader focused channels to maximise impact and reach of leader messaging and communication 
• Ensure we have sharing of best practice, resource and create templates, so we use our learnings and experience most effectively across our partnering community, so leader messages and tools are embedded into our core Rio functional and group wide channels
• Building connections with our Business Partners and other teams within Communications and the wider business 
• Work and manage senior leaders as part of execution of communications
• Manage dates and cadence of our key global leader channels
• Act as an active and noisy advocate for an evolved culture in Communications (focused, expert, fun and dynamic), helping to bring team members with us as we build an effective and connected function.
• Be an enabler for brilliance across the whole function

What you’ll bring 

• At least 5 years’ experience in employee communications.
• Proven ability to manage and engage senior stakeholders.
• Ability to meet strict deadlines and to manage multiple streams of work simultaneously.
• A high level of diplomacy and the ability to manage conflict and gain consensus.
• Demonstrated highly collaborative behaviour and ability to derive value from the broader organisation through sharing knowledge, experience, and skills. 
• Extremely organised.
• A demonstrated collegiate approach and proven track record of excellent teamwork with senior peers.
• Courageous and driven to try new ways of doing things to maximise impact of channels and content.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Strong written French skills (in addition to fluency in English) for occasional translation reviews.

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive. We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities

Where you’ll be working

Corporate Relations provides expertise and advice across all aspects of communications, brand strategy and positioning, media relations and stakeholder engagement with customers, employees and civil society through to governments and the general public.  

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ 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 Wednesday the 6th of September 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)