Traditional Owner Engagement Lead

Traditional Owner Engagement Lead

• Strengthen the partnership between our operations and Traditional Owners in the Pilbara region
• Opportunity to work collaboratively across multiple teams both internal and external to Rio Tinto Iron Ore
• Perth based opportunity with regular travel to the Pilbara

Our approach to Communities and Social Performance (CSP) is to build strong relationships based on the principles of mutual benefit, 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

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

We are looking for a Traditional Owner Engagement Lead to join a collaborative team and help with the strategic direction for the partnerships between Traditional Owner Groups and key stakeholders within the Rio Tinto Iron Ore (RTIO) business.

The Heritage and Traditional Owner Partnerships team work together with our CSP team to support our engagement with Traditional Owners and provide leadership and guidance to asset teams and operational leaders on our strategic approach to heritage management and agreement implementation, ensuring adherence to our standards and commitments.

This role will support Rio Tinto Iron Ore (RTIO) to make significant improvements to the way we work with the Traditional Owners on whose land we operate. This role will play an important part in building long-term, enduring positive relationships with Traditional Owners, developing creative solutions that benefit communities and supporting RTIO’s social license to operate.

Reporting to the Lead, Traditional Owner Engagement Leads, you will:

• Build strong partnerships and trust with Traditional Owners
• Develop a framework and plan to deliver on commitments and opportunities for Traditional Owners for the long term
• Implement Traditional Owner partnership strategies and implementation plans
• Interface with other areas of our operations requiring Traditional Owner inputs and interactions
• Showcase your effective engagement and negotiation skills
• Manage governance processes for partnership strategies
• Monitor core documentation practices and ensure the quality of data
• Facilitate engagement across multiple Traditional Owner Groups and external Corporations for specified key projects

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and others, creating and maintaining a safe workplace
• Passion to build relationships with Traditional Owners and across Indigenous communities and stakeholders
• Influencing, project management, compliance, risk management and stakeholder engagement skills
• Excellent people, teamwork and communication skills
• Ability to manage complex and conflicting priorities
• It will be beneficial if you bring a knowledge of cultural heritage, approvals and environmental

Do you consider yourself a good communicator, a problem solver and possess a strategic mindset? If so, we are keen to hear from you!

People who identify as Indigenous are encouraged to apply.

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 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

You will be based at the Central Park building, located in Perth CBD with regular travel to the Pilbara required.

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 16 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand. We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore.

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 the 4^th September 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)