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 RTAL's IS&T Transition, ensuring leaders, teams, and frontline users are informed, prepared, and aligned throughout a significant step‑change 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 audience‑appropriate 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 Day‑1 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 ground‑level 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, cues‑to‑act, 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 large‑scale technology, digital, or operational transformation programs.
• Strong writing and messaging skills, with the ability to translate complex technical and program content into clear, audience‑appropriate communications.
• Demonstrated capability planning and delivering multi‑channel, multi‑audience communications for complex, geographically dispersed organisations.
• Experience preparing executive briefings, leader packs, and cutover communications that support program readiness and Day‑1 execution.
• Comfortable engaging senior stakeholders and translating program sentiment into concise, governance‑ready 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 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 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.

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