Principal Advisor, Communities and Social

9 months ago

Brisbane, Australia Rio Tinto Full time

**Principal Advisor, Communities and Social Performance Governance**
- Help drive social performance outcomes across Rio Tinto’s global operations in line with our new business strategy
- Work as part of a dynamic team in a high priority area
- Increase your knowledge of Rio Tinto’s operations and build your professional network by working in a global role
- Build your influencing skills by engaging with asset CSP teams, across functions and with company leadership
- Join a caring leadership group, committed to your growth and development - Perth or Brisbane

Our approach to Communities and Social Performance (CSP) is to build strong partnerships based on mutual trust and respect. This includes meaningful engagement with host communities, managing social, economic, environmental, cultural, and human rights impacts throughout the life cycle of our assets and delivering value to local communities and society more broadly.

**About the role**

Our Communities and Social Performance Area of Expertise (AoE) is Rio Tinto’s central technical CSP function. It provides support to the business to build respectful and trusted relationships with host communities and deliver sustainable improvements in social and economic outcomes. The CSP AoE works closely with CSP practitioners and leaders, in addition to related functions across the business to build technical capability, support social performance delivery, monitor and respond to emerging trends, and provide assurance and risk management. The CSP AoE works closely with HSES to maintain Rio Tinto’s management systems, standards and reporting processes.

We are looking for a **Principal Advisor, CSP Governance **to join the assurance, risk and governance stream within the AoE. The team oversees and ensures robust CSP assurance practice, well understood CSP risks and controls, and fit-for-purpose systems, standards and reporting.

We are a committed, connected and caring global team. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Manager CSP Assurance, Risk and Governance and working in a challenging and exciting environment within the Communities and Social Performance Area of Expertise, you will:

- Maintain and update CSP control documentation to ensure it is risk aligned and meets the needs of the business and external expectations
- Support the awareness, deep understanding and accessibility of CSP’s standards, group procedures and guidance across the group
- Manage CSP integration into global process design and implementation to support alignment with CSP standards and expectations
- Together with the capability team, develop CSP technical guidance to support the detailed implementation of standards and procedures
- Keep abreast of international frameworks and standards and social performance requirements and ensure they are reflected within Rio Tinto standards and technical guidance; and
- Support other CSP assurance, risk and governance requirements and engage on other CSP activities and projects as needed

**What you’ll bring**
- A commitment to the wellbeing and safety of yourself and your team
- Tertiary qualifications in social sciences or related discipline
- Demonstrated expertise in communities and social performance, including diverse and complex cultural and community challenges
- Demonstrated field expertise in implementing communities and social performance standards and technical guidance
- Experience in project management and working through a networked organisation in achieving results
- An ability to simplify and communicate complex technical CSP information to various audiences
- An improvement focus and attention to detail
- Effective influencing skills when engaging with senior leaders internally and externally, including superior written and verbal communication skills

**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

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