Senior Adviser Strategic Communications & Issues Management

• Shape and protect Rio Tintos external reputation by turning emerging intelligence into practical communications action.
• Build experience at the intersection of strategic communications reputation intelligence social listening and AI-enabled horizon scanning.
• Role based in either London Perth or Brisbane

Were 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

Were looking for an experienced and highly capable communications professional to join our Strategic Communications team.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Strategic Communications you will monitor and analyse the external environment identify emerging reputation risks and opportunities and help translate insights into proactive communications strategies narratives and issues responses.

This is a hands-on role for someone who combines strong judgement and analytical thinking with excellent communications skills.

You will play an important role in Rio Tintos evolving reputation intelligence capability using research media and social intelligence AI-enabled horizon scanning and emerging tools to understand shifts in stakeholder perceptions and the information environment.

Working closely with the broader communications team you will help connect intelligence with action supporting integrated communications around enterprise priorities proactive reputation opportunities and emerging issues.

What youll be doing

• Using AI-enabled horizon scanning and intelligence tools to identify and analyse emerging societal geopolitical regulatory industry and stakeholder signals that could create reputation risks or opportunities for Rio Tinto.
• Monitoring Rio Tintos reputation across traditional and emerging information environments bringing together reputation research media intelligence social listening and other sources to identify meaningful changes in how the company is understood and perceived.
• Supporting analysis of Rio Tintos visibility and representation within LLMs identifying recurring themes information gaps or inaccuracies and helping translate findings into recommendations for communications and content.
• Producing concise reputation intelligence and foresight reporting distinguishing meaningful signals from noise and translating complex external developments into clear implications and recommended actions for communications leaders.
• Supporting the Principal Advisors and senior communications leaders on significant reputation matters contributing analysis scenarios stakeholder perspectives key positions and communications recommendations.
• Working with Media Relations Content and Social Media to turn reputation insights into action including proactive stories narratives executive communications content opportunities and issues responses.
• Supporting integrated strategic communications programs around significant enterprise priorities taking ownership of defined workstreams from research and planning through to execution and measurement.
• Building strong relationships across Rio Tintos global communications network working collaboratively with Media Relations Content and Social Media product group and functional communications teams and other stakeholders.

About you

• Degree in communications or a related field.
• Relevant experience (ideally 7 years) across corporate communications corporate affairs reputation issues management or media relations.
• Experience independently delivering communications strategies or intelligence workstreams in a complex organisation with minimal guidance.
• Strong analytical curiosity and professional judgement; ability to solve complex problems and recommend practical solutions.
• Experience with media monitoring social listening research and preferably AI-enabled intelligence or LLM analysis.
• Excellent writing and editing skills including concise reporting narratives briefings and recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder engagement collaboration and prioritisation skills. Youre someone who is proactive adaptable and comfortable moving between analysis and delivery.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution your thinking and your hard work and go home knowing youve helped the world progress.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan
• Wellbeing benefits
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
• Leave for all of lifes reasons (vacation/annual paid parental sick leave)

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 Indigenous Peoples 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.