Specialist Communications and Engagement

5 months ago


Perth, Australia Rio Tinto Full time

**Specialist Communications and Engagement**
- Values matter here
- Use your skills and creativity to craft communications to engage our people
- Perth based Monday to Friday with flexible work arrangements

**About the role**

**Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.**

Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s **Resource Development** team is currently recruiting for a **Specialist Communications and Engagement** to provide communications expertise and deliverables to the General Manager, management team and leaders, and to ensure leaders are aligned on priorities and messaging, whilst liaising with the External Affairs and Communications teams.

Reporting to the **General Manager Resource Development**,with a dotted line to the **Senior Advisor Communications**, key accountabilities for this position will be to:

- Develop, coordinate and distribute team and OTS specific communications and engagement activities that support key business priorities
- Ensure effective distribution of content via various channels, including up and across the matrix organisation
- Develop team-based communications action plans and ensure a regular drumbeat of communications
- Implement communication strategies that promote positive engagement amongst the workforce
- Liaise with other business areas and contractors to support team activities
- Identify positive stories that can be shared within OTS, all of Iron Ore and/or externally to enhance the reputation of the team and Rio Tinto Iron Ore
- Support the leadership team to identify and escalate potentially contentious issues and develop strategic communications and engagement to manage risks
- Provide strategic and tactical communications and engagement advice and assistance to leaders
- Monitor, report and evaluate communications and engagement impact on driving key divisional priorities
- Maintain regular liaison with External Affairs and Communications team and the broader Iron Ore communications network to ensure alignment, and leverage content and best practice
- Ensure appropriate alignment of Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s strategy with team communications.

This is a permanent position working Monday to Friday out of the Rio Tinto Central Park building offices in the Perth CBD. There will be flexibility to work from home on occasional days and ad hoc travel to site in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

**About you**

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

- Strong communication/interpersonal skills with ability to influence stakeholders and build effective partnerships
- Demonstrated background in providing strategic advice in communications
- Ability to support events and engagement opportunities with the workforce
- A drive and eagerness to develop
- Ability to work autonomously, drive outcomes and meet action plans
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office skills
- Current C class drivers’ licence
- Related industry exposure desirable
- Experience in filming, photography and video editing well regarded.

**What we offer**
- A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
- Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
- 18 weeks of gender-neutral and equal paid parental leave, with continued superannuation contributions whilst employees are on unpaid, or half paid parental leave
- 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); and
- Local relocation packages offered for Australian residents only

**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.

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own a world-class, integrated network of 17 mines, four independent port terminals, a rail network span



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