Corporate Affairs Business Partner

7 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Rio Tinto Full time

**Corporate Affairs Business Partner - Africa**
- Great opportunity to work for a pioneering organisation at the forefront of mining.
- Join a global network and diverse team where people are encouraged to offer unique perspectives and build knowledge and connections.
- This role is a great opportunity for a strategic, enthusiastic, caring and resilient leader who is passionate about providing a high level of leadership, support and guidance.
- Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, with flexible working arrangements available.

**About the role**

**_ Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs._**

We are looking for a **Corporate Affairs Business Partner - Africa **to lead the delivery and implementation of strategic communications and stakeholder engagement across a broad range of activities relevant to our Africa portfolio, which are collectively associated with the media and communications area within the Minerals product group. This role is a great opportunity for a strategic, enthusiastic, caring, and resilient leader who is passionate about providing a high level of support, and guidance to our African businesses. Working closely with the Global Media, Brand, Communities, and External Affairs teams, as well as with site-based Corporate Affairs team, to ensure consistent, effective, impactful, and quality communications delivery both internally and externally.

Reporting to the **Chief Communication Officer and External Affairs Officer - Minerals**, the scope of the role will consist of (but not limited to) the following:

- Development of the communications strategy for each of our African assets/projects that aligns to business strategy, including strengthening our social license to operate.
- Develop and deploy strategic, tactical and crisis communications to manage reputational risk and ensure the successful delivery of business priorities.
- Manage and effectively leverage external platforms (conferences and industry engagements) to promote Rio Tinto’s profile and reputation across our Africa portfolio.
- Partnering with operational and functional leaders and teams, and key stakeholders, both internally across the Group and externally to deliver effective communications reputational outcomes.
- Building change and transformation communications to support commercial development, employee engagement, project deployment and productivity outcomes.
- Providing communications’ input and advice to our African assets on effective communications approaches, messages, channels, and audience engagement, including engaging and preparing senior leaders for external opportunities
- Travelling to site to understand context, challenges and opportunities and importantly, to build relationships with on-site leadership and corporate relations teams.
- Liaising closing with teams within the global Corporate Relations functions (Media & Digital, Brand and Reputation, and Corporate Communications and Employee Engagement, External Affairs and Communities) in delivering the functions global objectives in the Africa region.

**What you’ll bring**
- Experience working in Africa.
- An MBA degree, Masters in international affairs or equivalent
- Atleast 8 to 10 years of proven extensive tactical and strategic communications, external affairs or media experience or other relevant and transferable skills (e.g. law, strategy).
- Experience in working in a large complex organisation with a remote/regional workforce, preferably in extractives.
- French language skills as well as Private sector experience will be an added advantage.
- Exceptional leadership skills with a demonstrated safety commitment and performance
- Ability to build relationships at all levels of seniority, collaborate and influence outcomes with stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in multicultural team environments.
- Ability to communicate and influence complex and strategic ideas effectively - both verbally and in writing - in English
- Innovative and creative thinking
- Exceptional analytical problem-solving skills to maximise business opportunities and align to strategic priorities.
- Willingness to travel, including to sites as required.

**Every Voice Matters**

**About Rio Tinto**

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and metals company. Our focus is on finding, mining and processing the Earth's mineral resources in order to maximise value for our shareholders. Everything we do is done with the future firmly in mind, so our employees are rewarded with opportunity, an open and diverse culture, and a responsible working environment in which they can go further.

Rio Tinto’s Minerals product group provides materials essential to a wide variety of industries, ranging from supporting the agriculture industry to renewable energy and electric vehicles. We produce high-grade low impurity iron ore pellets and concentrate, titanium dioxide and borates from our operations in Africa, Canada, and the US. We con

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