Senior Adviser Communications & Change Management

• Fixed-term role (6-12 months)
• Work in a flexible work environment where we prioritise a healthy work/life balance
• Location: Brisbane Hub on Charlotte Street
  

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are currently seeking a Senior Adviser Communication & Change Management who will lead the regional communications agenda for RTALs IS&T Transition ensuring leaders teams and frontline users are informed prepared and aligned throughout a significant stepchange in technology ownership. The role brings clarity structure and consistency to how the transition story is told across executive forums regional teams and operational sites and coordinates proportionate change support where needed.

Operating through influence and strong stakeholder engagement the role works closely with the Transition Performance lead regional teams and workstream owners to deliver timely targeted and audienceappropriate communications across Pacific Operations. It reports to the Manager Communications Pacific Operations and is embedded within the Transition team (Planning & Performance Finance) and plays a central role in shaping a positive transition experience for all impacted people.

Key Accountabilities

• Own the transition communications plan including messaging architecture cadence audience segmentation and alignment to key program milestones and governance horizons.
• Develop and deliver leader engagement and enablement materials executive briefings leader packs talking points and FAQs that make transition impacts clear and equip leaders to communicate confidently.
• Prepare and coordinate deployment and cutover communications ensuring sites support teams and frontline users are informed and ready ahead of Day1 and key transition milestones.
• Maintain a stakeholder map and engagement plan tracking audience needs sentiment and readiness and surfacing communication or adoption risks into transition governance.
• Establish feedback loops (listening sessions site forums pulse checks) to capture groundlevel sentiment refine messaging and surface emerging issues early.
• Coordinate sequencing and messaging across the Transition team Finance BP workstream leads and regional teams to maintain consistency and avoid regional drift.
• Design and coordinate proportionate change interventions where required (leader talking points cuestoact readiness checklists) working with regional OCM specialists for local delivery.
• Track and report on communications effectiveness and readiness indicators linking insights to portfolio governance and benefits reporting.
  

Relevant Skills and Experience

• Experience in communications roles within largescale technology digital or operational transformation programs.
• Strong writing and messaging skills with the ability to translate complex technical and program content into clear audienceappropriate communications.
• Demonstrated capability planning and delivering multichannel multiaudience communications for complex geographically dispersed organisations.
• Experience preparing executive briefings leader packs and cutover communications that support program readiness and Day1 execution.
• Comfortable engaging senior stakeholders and translating program sentiment into concise governanceready insight.
• Working knowledge of change management principles sufficient to design proportionate interventions and coordinate with OCM specialists.
• Comfortable operating through influence in matrixed environments; experience working alongside finance delivery or procurement partners is an advantage.
• Relevant background in communications public relations change management or organisational development; formal change management certification is an advantage but not required.

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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 cant do it on our own so were 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 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.