Specialist Communities & Social Performance

SPECIALIST COMMUNITIES & SOCIAL PERFORMANCE

• Join our global leading business offering outstanding global career opportunities
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Key role supporting land access and Communities & Social Performance outcomes
• Brisbane-based role with remote site work

About the role

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

We are looking for a Specialist Communities & Social Performance to support the business in developing and implementing land access strategies and processes for exploration project work. You will work closely with stakeholders including Traditional Owners and lead negotiations of land access, heritage and native title agreements.

This is a great opportunity for a Communities and Social Performance professional to work in role with a broad scope and great variety. Your work will vary from coordinating prospecting permits to organizing cultural heritage surveys and developing strategies for large scale exploration activities. This role will be based in our Brisbane office servicing the Northern Territory and North Queensland. Travel will be required as part of your duties.

Reporting to the Senior Advisor Communities and Social Performance and working in a dedicated Communities & Social Performance team, you will be:

• Developing and maintaining relationships with Traditional Owners, representative bodies, consultants, neighbours, community and internal/external stakeholder groups
• Developing and implementing land access strategies and related processes that support exploration project work
• Leading negotiations of land access, cultural heritage and native title agreements
• Ensuring legislative requirements in relation to exploration, mining and native title aspects of law are managed
• Conducting compliance activities relating to Communities & Social Performance standards, access agreements, cultural heritage and other commitments.
• Organising heritage surveys working with Traditional Owner groups and heritage specialists
• Managing contractual obligations under existing agreements
• Working collaboratively towards the resolution of concerns/issues/disputes raised by landholders
• Supporting the delivery of strategy, policy and standards development associated with the Communities & Social Performance area.

What you will bring

· Excellent communication skills and experience negotiating land access agreements including a good knowledge of related legislation

· An excellent understanding of land access legislation and experience developing and implementing land access strategies

· Experience in remote field work including exposure to heritage surveys

· Proven ability to work positively and in partnership with Traditional Owner groups

· Demonstrated experience in cultural heritage and native title matters including knowledge of related legislation

· Experience negotiating heritage agreements and/or cultural heritage management plans

· Ability to build strong working relationships across the business

· Experience in delivering outcomes against deadlines and reaching goal

· A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

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)

· Relocation assistance where necessary

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.

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 Wednesday, 23^rd November 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)