Senior Advisor Heritage

Senior Cultural Heritage Advisor

• Be part of creating a long-lasting positive legacy
• Build strong practices in Cultural Heritage Management and Traditional Owner Engagement
• Dampier based role

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.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Cultural Heritage Advisor to lead and support our heritage programs and activities. Reporting to the Lead Cultural Heritage Management, you will:

• Lead the heritage program in your portfolio
• Set direction for and support the development of a team of Cultural Heritage Advisors
• Manage cultural heritage engagements and technical interactions with Traditional Owner groups related to heritage site management and mine development plans
• Lead project and contractor management, including the strategic direction and organisation of fieldwork and reporting
• Conduct fieldwork and community consultation including archaeological and ethnographic surveys, Traditional Owner led community projects, social surroundings programs and archaeological programs for approvals and research purposes.
• Liaise between Traditional Owner groups and the business on cultural heritage management activities to shape our mine designs and operational activities

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• A degree in Archaeology, Anthropology, Heritage Management, History or equivalent
• Demonstrated experience and technical expertise in Heritage Management, and ability to conduct fieldwork
• Experience working with Traditional Owners / Indigenous groups, in a relationship management or community engagement capacity
• Broad background working within Heritage Management in mining & resources, consulting, not for profit, Aboriginal Corporations, contract management, or similar

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 witha 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

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.

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 Friday 21^st October (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)