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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Annual incentive program

Medical benefits including private健康支援

Share ownership plan

Insurance cover

Salary packaging options

Education assistance

Relocation assistance

Employee discounts

Job summary

Rio Tinto is seeking a Principal Advisor – Strategic Communications & Issues Management to shape and protect the company’s global reputation. This role requires trusted counsel on complex, high-profile matters, translating intricate information into clear narratives and strategic communications.

You will work across a global, matrixed organisation, influencing stakeholders and supporting senior leaders to make informed decisions in a rapidly changing external environment.

Qualifications

• Commitment to safety for self and team.
• Significant experience in corporate communications, corporate affairs, media relations, reputation or issues management.
• Strong strategic judgement to advise senior leaders across a global organisation.
• Excellent writing and ability to turn complex information into clear narratives and executive briefs.
• Experience with horizon scanning, media/social intelligence and reputation measurement, including digital/AI tools.
• Experience leading cross-functional communications workstreams in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Shape and protect Rio Tinto’s global reputation on key issues.
• Influence enterprise decisions and lead global communications workstreams.
• Provide trusted counsel on complex or high-profile matters to senior leaders.
• Translate complex information into clear recommendations and communications strategies.

Skills

Safety mindset

Strategic judgement

Executive influence

Writing & synthesis

Horizon scanning & analytics

Cross-functional leadership

Job description

Principal Adviser Strategic Communications & Issues Management

• Shape and protect Rio Tinto’s reputation on the complex issues that matter most to our business and stakeholders
• Influence enterprise decisions, lead global communications workstreams and strengthen reputation capability across the function
• Perth or Brisbane based opportunity, partnering with senior leaders and communications teams across Rio Tinto

We’re Finding Better Ways to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values - care, courage and curiosity - guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About the role

We are looking for a Principal Advisor – Strategic Communications & Issues Management to help shape and protect Rio Tinto’s global reputation.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced communications professional who can provide trusted counsel on complex and high-profile matters, identify emerging reputation risks and opportunities, and translate complex information into clear recommendations, narratives and communications strategies. You will work across a global, matrixed organisation, influencing stakeholders and supporting senior leaders to make informed decisions in a rapidly changing external environment.

About you

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Significant experience across corporate communications, corporate affairs, media relations, reputation or issues management, including complex or sensitive matters
• Strong strategic judgement, with the ability to advise senior leaders and influence stakeholders across a complex, global organisation
• Excellent writing and synthesis skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear narratives, executive briefs, recommendations and communications strategies
• Strong capability in horizon scanning, media and social intelligence, reputation research and measurement, including emerging digital and AI-enabled tools
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional communications workstreams and delivering high-quality outcomes in fast-moving environments

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 permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• 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

Where you’ll be working

You will be part of Rio Tinto’s Strategic Communications team, working across a globally connected communications function to identify and respond to emerging reputation issues and opportunities. Based in Perth or Brisbane, you will partner with senior leaders, communications teams and stakeholders across the business to strengthen Rio Tinto’s reputation and support informed enterprise decision-making.

About Rio Tinto

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 situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and Inclusion

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTQ+ 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.