Senior Advisor Programme Governance & Compliance

• Support legal, mandate and agreement compliance across Traditional Owner Partnerships

• Work closely with Legal, Agreement Making and cross-functional teams to monitor obligations, manage risk and support defensible decision-making

• Perth-based opportunity supporting agreement delivery, compliance discipline and trusted relationships with Traditional Owner groups and Prescribed Body Corporates

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 Senior Advisor Programme Governance & Compliance to support legal, mandate and agreement compliance activities across Traditional Owner Partnerships.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of legal, compliance and programme delivery. You will play a key role supporting the tracking and coordination of agreement obligations, mandate conditions, decision records, assurance evidence and legal risk inputs, helping ensure commitments are clearly understood, appropriately documented and delivered in line with approved positions.

Working closely with Legal, Agreement Making, Engagement, Heritage, Finance and operational teams, you will help strengthen compliance discipline, improve the quality of legal and governance records, and support consistent decision-making across a complex and evolving portfolio.

Reporting to the Manager TOP Governance & Improvement, you will:

• Support legal, mandate and agreement compliance activities across Traditional Owner Partnerships

• Monitor compliance with approved mandates, agreement commitments, governance frameworks, decision rights and escalation pathways

• Maintain accurate records of decisions, obligations, legal inputs, action registers, risk registers and issue registers

• Prepare briefing notes, decision papers, compliance updates and governance materials for leadership and legal review forums

• Coordinate reporting across agreement making, implementation, engagement, heritage, legal, finance and risk workstreams

• Maintain dashboards and trackers covering agreement obligations, mandate conditions, decision status, risks, issues, dependencies and assurance actions

• Support compliance assurance activities, internal reviews, audits and legal risk management processes

• Manage evidence, documentation and record keeping to support legal, compliance and assurance requirements

• Track assurance actions, compliance improvements and legal review actions through to completion

• Coordinate inputs from Agreement Making, Engagement, Heritage, Legal and Finance teams to support compliant agreement delivery

• Support continuous improvement of compliance tools, templates, reporting routines, legal records and ways of working

• Build trusted relationships with Traditional Owner groups, Prescribed Body Corporates and internal stakeholders to support clear, consistent and compliant outcomes

About you

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Experience in legal support, compliance, assurance, risk management, contract administration, corporate governance or programme governance within a complex organisation

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate compliance processes, legal inputs, decision records and reporting routines across multiple stakeholders

• Strong understanding of compliance frameworks, decision rights, escalation mechanisms, accountability structures and record keeping requirements

• Experience maintaining obligations registers, action tracking systems, compliance evidence and assurance records

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify compliance gaps, legal risks, emerging issues and opportunities to strengthen controls

• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to prepare briefing notes, compliance papers, legal review materials, reports and executive updates

• Strong organisational capability with the ability to manage competing priorities, confidential information and multiple compliance deliverables

• Experience working respectfully and effectively with Traditional Owner groups, Prescribed Body Corporates or diverse stakeholder groups will be highly regarded

• Continuous improvement mindset with a focus on strengthening compliance effectiveness, legal record quality and programme discipline

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 and company-provided insurance cover

• Extensive salary sacrifice and salary packaging options

• Career development and 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

• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

Where you'll be working

You will join the Traditional Owner Partnerships Governance & Improvement team, supporting legal, compliance and programme delivery outcomes across a broad portfolio of Traditional Owner agreements, commitments and initiatives.

Working closely with Agreement Making, Engagement, Heritage, Legal, Finance and operational teams, you will help coordinate compliance routines, strengthen decision-making records and improve visibility of agreement obligations, legal risk, programme performance and delivery outcomes.

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.