Senior Adviser, Employee Communications (fixed term contract)

Senior Adviser, Employee Communications

• Be part of a global Corporate Communications & Reporting team
• Key role supporting the head of Global Communication and senior stakeholders
• 2 year fixed term contract (with possibility of extension), London, UK. Local UK Contract

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We’re looking for a passionate communicator and creative thinker to join our team and help us get critical messages to our global workforce in a meaningful and impactful way. If you’re great with people, tech-savvy and able to quickly learn and leverage tools and technologies for maximum impact, we’d like to hear from you.

This is a two-year fixed term contract in an intermediate level role that promises variety, a fast pace and plenty of challenges. You’ll be part of a small, committed and supportive global team and you’ll be working with corporate content, senior stakeholders and global projects.

About the role

As a Senior Adviser, Employee Communications, you will provide efficient and effective support and advice in the delivery of communications and change to drive a strong culture and employee advocacy.

Reporting to the Principal Adviser, Corporate Communications and Reporting, you will:

• Provide hands-on, specialist communications planning, support and delivery of key, strategic communications going to all employees and/or leaders, in collaboration with your colleagues in the broader Corporate Communications team
• Co-ordinate, draft/edit and deliver Group employee publications such as the Leader Connect e-newsletter
• Plan, shape and deliver messaging and supporting materials (eg videos, infographics) for Group-wide performance communications, including quarterly, half-year and full-year communications to employees, working closely with the heads of Group Communications, IR and Media Relations
• Manage and support London hub communications, including liaising with key stakeholders, writing, editing, logistics planning, and participation in London business resilience team and town hall meetings
• Cultivate key relationships with IR, Media Relations, CoSec and other stakeholders in addition to the broader communications network
• Support teleconference events, videos and other communications for Group executives and the Board when engaging with employees and leaders
• Prepare, format, test and distribute company-wide announcements and monitor metrics
• Support CE awards programmes and coordinate with broader employee communications network
• Develop innovative solutions and approaches, leveraging Group employee communication channels
• Propose process improvements to communications delivery
• Support metrics and monthly reporting
• Manage external vendors and agencies as required, and ensure alignment with Group communications and brand standards and requirements
• Coordinate translations
• Work with IS&T to manage and maintain certain distribution lists used for communications channels
• Monitor our internal Group Corporate Communication mailboxes

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, writing, journalism, public relations or other related field.
• Passionate communicator who is a creative thinker to help us get critical messages out in a meaningful and impactful way.
• 3-8 years of experience in similar role and in corporate communications principles and practices
• Tech-savvy and able to quickly learn and leverage tools and technologies for maximum impact.
• Ability to deal with multiple and different stakeholders
• You thrive on variety – that is producing communications materials on different topics and subject matter – and can cut through complexity, transforming technical and corporate content into engaging and effective communications.
• Ability to prioritise, successfully balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders, and you are a team player, reliable and committed to excellence.
• Eager to learn, take on new challenges and thrive in a global team environment.

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.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ 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.