Communities and Social Performance Business Partner
Communities & Social Performance Business Partner
The Opportunity
We are looking for a"¯Communities & Social Performance Business Partner"¯based in Perth or Residential in the Pilbara.
The Communities and Social Performance (CSP) team supports our business by building close relationships with our communities and regional towns, managing our Indigenous and local development programs, designing CSP strategies, and supporting studies and project approvals. The team also manages our Pastoral Stations and is accountable for tracking and ensuring strong CSP performance.
This role will support RTIO to make significant improvements to the way we work with the communities, including the Traditional Owners on whose land we operate. This role will play an important part in building long-term, deep and positive relationships with Traditional Owners, developing solutions and initiatives that benefit communities and support RTIO's social license to operate in the Pilbara.
What the role entails
What you will need for this role
To succeed in this role, you will have:
What's on offer
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.
Where you'll be working
Our approach to Communities and Social Performance is to build strong relationships based on the principles of mutual benefit, trust and respect. This includes the way we engage with communities and the steps we take to identify and manage social, economic, environmental, cultural, and human rights impacts throughout the life cycle of our projects, from exploration, to project development, to operation and closure.
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.
Applications close on Sunday 7 November 2021 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)
- Senior level stakeholder engagement focus
- Manage community commitments and opportunities across the Pilbara region in connection with our operations
- Build enduring and relationships between our operations and communities, including Traditional Owners and other stakeholders
The Opportunity
We are looking for a"¯Communities & Social Performance Business Partner"¯based in Perth or Residential in the Pilbara.
The Communities and Social Performance (CSP) team supports our business by building close relationships with our communities and regional towns, managing our Indigenous and local development programs, designing CSP strategies, and supporting studies and project approvals. The team also manages our Pastoral Stations and is accountable for tracking and ensuring strong CSP performance.
This role will support RTIO to make significant improvements to the way we work with the communities, including the Traditional Owners on whose land we operate. This role will play an important part in building long-term, deep and positive relationships with Traditional Owners, developing solutions and initiatives that benefit communities and support RTIO's social license to operate in the Pilbara.
What the role entails
- Building CSP management, capacity and outcomes across our assets and communities
- Supporting RTIO mining operation's strategic priorities through the implementation of long-term Community and Social Performance Plans across multiple disciplines and locations
- Building enduring community relationships and implementing processes to understand and support the management of social or cultural expectations in the towns and communities in which we operate
- Delivering strategies and programs that meet the expectations of the community, key stakeholders, our employees and our operations
- Ensuring clear and transparent communication at all times
- Regular travel across the Pilbara is required as part of the role
What you will need for this role
To succeed in this role, you will have:
- Demonstrated passion for building relationships, building deep community knowledge and striving to bring benefits through proven communication, project and risk management, and social performance
- Proven ability to build positive relationships
- Qualifications in Social Science / Community Development / Community Services / Community Engagement
- A broad background ideally with experience working in mining & resources, construction, facilities or utilities in an interfacing role
- Experience with risk identification and management
- Excellent people, teamwork and communication skills
What's on offer
- 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.
Where you'll be working
Our approach to Communities and Social Performance is to build strong relationships based on the principles of mutual benefit, trust and respect. This includes the way we engage with communities and the steps we take to identify and manage social, economic, environmental, cultural, and human rights impacts throughout the life cycle of our projects, from exploration, to project development, to operation and closure.
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.
Applications close on Sunday 7 November 2021 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)