Principal Advisor – Community and social performance, Minerals at Rio Tinto

We are looking for a Principal Advisor – CSP, Minerals to work closely with the sites and CSP teams and CSP area of expertise to guide the CSP practice across multiple operations in the Minerals Product Group. This includes providing technical advice, supporting capability development to ultimately deliver on the CSP strategies.

This role is a great opportunity for a CSP expert to support the establishment and execution of CSP initiatives in support of Minerals sites.

Working and reporting to the General Manager CSP, Minerals

• Provide technical guidance to support the implementation of CSP strategies,
• Support the CSP compliance at site level, audit readiness and action follow up
• Oversee the systems implementations, tracking and CSP targets reporting – to site, Product group, group
• Strengthen site CSP discipline on documentation and follow-up incidents and complaints
• Provide strategic and technical advice, engaging the support of the technical CSP Area of Excellence team members as required
• Support the strategic stakeholder engagement and partnerships
• Advise on socio-economic baseline and impact assessment studies.

We are an open, connected 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.

What You’ll Bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Tertiary qualifications in related discipline
• Progressive experience in CSP, with direct operational and/or field experience and rising into a regional or global function.
• Demonstrated expertise in communities and social performance, including diverse and complex cultural and community challenges
• International experience, will be highly regarded
• Demonstrated experience in crafting and delivering strategies, and ability to drive technical excellence in CSP in regional and asset teams
• Demonstrated expertise in implementing and assuring communities and social performance standards and systems
• Experience working in the mining & metals / extractive sectors, an asset
• Languages skills English. Knowledge of French will be highly regarded.
• Multi-jurisdictional experience

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 competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience
• Annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans
• Wellbeing benefits
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental, etc)