Principal Change Management Advisor - People Function

Riotinto; Brisbane, Perth; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Annual incentive program

Medical benefits

Salary sacrifice options

Career development support

Extensive family-friendly benefits

Share ownership plan

Discounts

Job summary

Rio Tinto is seeking a Principal Adviser Change Management to drive high-quality, people-centred change across the People Function. You will independently lead change planning, impact assessment and stakeholder analysis for medium-complexity initiatives, translating change impacts into practical adoption, learning and capability solutions.

Based in Brisbane or Perth on a 12-month fixed-term contract, you will partner with Future People, People Technology and other teams to ensure successful

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience independently leading change planning, impact assessment, stakeholder mapping, readiness and adoption activities for medium-complexity initiatives.
• Experience translating organizational, process or technology impacts into practical learning, capability and leader-enablement solutions.
• Proven ability to influence leaders, facilitate workshops and coordinate sponsors, change champions and cross-functional delivery partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead change planning, impact assessment and stakeholder analysis for People Function initiatives and programs, identifying adoption risks and practical responses.
• Develop and execute integrated change, learning and capability plans aligned with program milestones, business priorities and impacted stakeholder needs.
• Translate process, technology and organization design impacts into learning pathways, training solutions, toolkits and targeted adoption activities.
• Design leader enablement resources, including talking points, FAQs, coaching guides and practical support materials.
• Facilitate workshops and readiness activities with leaders, employees and stakeholder groups.
• Coordinate sponsors and change champion networks to build sponsorship and consistent implementation.
• Monitor readiness, adoption, learning completion and stakeholder feedback to reduce risk.
• Strengthen change maturity by improving frameworks, templates and playbooks.

Skills

Change management

Learning & capability

Stakeholder leadership

Measurement & improvement

Operating context

Job description

Rio Tinto is seeking a Principal Adviser Change Management to drive high-quality, people-centred change across the People Function. You will independently lead change planning, impact assessment and stakeholder analysis for medium-complexity initiatives, translating change impacts into practical adoption, learning and capability solutions.

Based in Brisbane or Perth on a 12-month fixed-term contract, you will partner with Future People, People Technology and other teams to ensure successful