Senior Advisor Planning, Reporting and Projects

Senior Advisor Planning, Reporting & 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 based in Brisbane. 

About the role 

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Senior Advisor Planning, Reporting & Projects to manage the collaboration of employee communications across all product group, assets and global employee communications, so that information flows up, down and across Rio Tinto seamlessly. And build the governance, processes and reporting to enable this to happen.This role will also be the champion for measurement and insight within the employee communications function, tracking our performance each month and looking for trends and learnings to help us continuously improve. This individual will also be responsible for running the employee communications survey and other insight projects required across the team.

This is a great opportunity for an enthusiast for ever evolving trends in employee communications and a proven track record of delivering innovative strategies in employee communications.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Australia Employee Comms and Planning and Reporting this role will be instrumental in ensuring that information flows up, down and across Rio Tinto seamlessly and that we are able to track metrics and progress of comms initiatives against our desired outcomes. You will be responsible for:

• Manage Monday.com and develop and build out its capability to ensure we can see activity across Rio Tinto (going broader than Global Employee Communications) in a clear, transparent and controlled manner. 
• Air traffic control our messages and communications initiatives where we can, so it makes sense in the cadence of message flow
• Build the governance, processes and plans required to achieve clarity of message
• Manage the process, format and reporting for employee communications impact (i.e.: a measurement and insights dashboard) – at a global and a campaign level

• Manage the employee communications community of practice, working in partnership with PG,geography and functional Communications leads, to ensure a seamless communications experience for employees no matter where they are so that information flows up, down and across Rio Tinto seamlessly and with clarity.
• Work with the Senior Manager Australia Employee Comms and Planning and Reporting to build clear ways of working across Global employee communications and manage and govern Monday.com and employee communications Grid, 
• Enabling and embedding our governance and ways of working into our team
• Manage the development programme for all Rio Tinto employee communicators, so our wider community is able to stay abreast of latest trends, expertly use the tools that we have and share best practice effectively with each other to drive consistency and brilliance across Rio Tinto
• Regularly review ways of working,employee and channel insight and data to refine plans in line with opportunities. 

• Manage the agendas for the Global employee comms leadership team meetings, the EC Crowd regular get togethers and the global communications team regular team calls
• Work across global communications projects as needed and where capacity enables this
• Act as a key employee communications specialist and work closely with all members of the employee communications team 

• Work closely with the Head of Strategic Planning and Insight team, joining their regular meetings where it makes sense to, so we are joined up across our teams
• Would with all the global employee comms leadership team
• 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.
• Support and manage communications projects and campaigns as required.

What you’ll bring 

• Over 5 years of experience in managing aspects of employee communications and stakeholder engagement in large companies, agencies, or government departments.
• A demonstrated collegiate approach and proven track record of excellent teamwork with senior peers.
• Proven capability to build, lead and engage high performing teams. 
• Excellent strategic and execution capability and a proven ability to deliver results in a complex environment. 
• A record of successfully building and maintaining strong relationships with relevant stakeholder groups.
• 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. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A structured and organised thinker who is comfortable working at pace. 

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)