Corporate Counsel, Strategy & Development, Rio Tinto

• Part -Time Opportunity to work for a global mining organisation
• Regional responsibilities working with a dynamic team
• Permanent part-time role based in Perth or Brisbane

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

We are looking for a permanent part-time Corporate Counsel who will provide legal support and strategic advice to the Rio Tinto Exploration based in Australasia. This role is part of the Strategy & Development Legal team, which provides support to business units globally including Rio Tinto Exploration, Rio Tinto Closure, Strategy and Corporate Development.

Rio Tinto Legal plays a key role in executing core business strategy and provides legal services and expertise of the highest standards to the Rio Tinto Group, at a corporate level as well as in support of activities on the ground.

This role is a great opportunity for a highly motivated individual, reporting to the Corporate Counsel Strategy & Development and involves:

· Provision of timely and commercially focused advice and assistance in managing the legal aspects and risks of the regional Exploration team's business objectives, including new country entry and stakeholder engagement strategies, new projects or legacy sites, joint ventures and partnerships, acquisitions/divestments, changing government regulation, anti-bribery legislation, management of critical incidents

· Drafting and negotiation of arrangements with third parties including joint venture agreements, earn-in agreements, sale and purchase documentation, access arrangements and corporate structuring

· Support with permitting, tenure, approvals and access issues

· Pro-actively leading or supporting in warden's court matters, dispute resolution and litigation (major litigation will be handled by the Rio Tinto Litigation team)

· Cost effective management of external legal resources

· Awareness of material internal business developments relevant to legal issues affecting exploration

· Maintaining awareness of, and advising on, relevant external legal developments

· Developing and maintaining close working relationships with the Regional Exploration team members, Strategy & Development legal team, members of the Rio Tinto Legal, Governance and Ethics team globally as well as related functions

What You'll Bring

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

· Post qualification experience as a legal practitioner in a relevant area of law or industry in Australia

· Comprehensive written and verbal English skills

· The ability to work independently and to use your internal and external network to supplement your own skills and expertise where needed

· Strong problem solving, strategic and analytical capability, as well as commercial acumen

· Effective time management and personal organisational skills

· Demonstrated ability to develop strong relationships

· Excellent communication and collaboration skills

· Strategic decision making with a demonstrated ability to influence and negotiate

Where You'll Be Working

Rio Tinto's Exploration group seeks to create value for the business by discovering or acquiring new mineral resources. Organized into four regional teams (Americas, Australasia, Africa-Europe and Eurasia), the Exploration group provides both a global reach and a local presence across a range of commodities including bauxite, copper, iron ore, nickel and uranium.

What we offer

· Be recognised for your contribution - our 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.



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.

So if this sounds like you and the opportunity you are looking for, apply now.

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.