Principal Advisor, Media Relations

3 weeks ago

Perth, Australia RioTinto Full time

Principal Advisor, Media Relations

We encourage women and Indigenous Peoples to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.

  • Join a supportive and collaborative Global Media team and be valued for your strong writing skills and media relations expertise
  • Help strengthen Rio Tinto’s media relations and enhance its reputation
  • This role is based in our Central Park office in Perth, WA

Where we’re all welcome

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 who we are.

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 acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength. The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.

About the role

We’re looking for a Principal Advisor, Media Relations to work within the global media team. Working as part of a small team based in Western Australia, you’ll have extensive media relations or journalism experience and highly developed strategic communications skills. The role also works close with the broader External Communications, Communications, Investor Relations, Human Resources, and wider Corporate Affairs teams.

Reporting to the Manager, Media Relations, you will:

  • Be responsible for writing media releases as well as briefing notes for executives and managers
  • Support delivery of Rio Tinto’s global media relations strategy, with a focus on media in Western Australia, primarily supporting Rio Tinto Iron Ore division but also any other Product Group or function as necessary
  • Provide day-to-day guidance and advice on both reactive and proactive media engagements and devise strategies to best handle those matters
  • Contribute to the management of crisis communications
  • Work closely with colleagues in the broader External Communications team to ensure alignment between media, internal communications, social media and digital channels
  • Proactively work with product groups, assets, country teams and functions to ensure clear and timely engagement and communication with media
  • Build and maintain an appropriate network across mainstream, regional and business media
  • Ability to travel, sometimes at short notice, to support media activities in the Pilbara and potentially other areas of Australia
  • Support the review and implementation of Group-wide media relations policy, procedures, guidelines, and other tools (e.g. training programmes)
  • Support media monitoring and measurement activities
  • Actively keep abreast of Group strategy, initiatives, and key issues to ensure communications support takes changes into account
  • Stay up to date on industry trends, executive activity (particularly media and social media) at peer companies and relevant leading corporates to help shape strategy

What you will bring

  • Live by our values of Care, Courage, and Curiosity – ensuring our people are at the heart of our communications
  • Significant experience in media relations or communications in large companies, agencies, government departments or experience as a journalist
  • Experience in managing aspects of reputation and communications in large companies, agencies, or government departments or experience as a journalist
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrated highly collaborative behaviour and ability to derive value from the broader organisation through sharing knowledge, experience, and skills
  • Ability to produce high quality work under time constraints
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate with internal stakeholders and build effective and strong partnerships
  • A Bachelors degree in Media, Journalism, Communications, or related discipline

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
  • Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia
  • A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus
  • 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, cultural leave)
  • To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them
  • Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more

We are committed to elevating Indigenous voices and increasing cultural knowledge in our business. Diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together. To help you on your journey with us, you’ll also have access to:

  • Specialist Indigenous Support Advisors are always there for our Indigenous employees and available to support through any aspect of your employment
  • Indigenous leadership programmes across some professional and operational roles to ensure that we are developing Indigenous Leaders

Who we are 

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.

Applications close on Friday, 7th June 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

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