Specialist Communications

5 days ago


Invercargill, New Zealand Rio Tinto Full time

**Communications Specialist**
- Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
- Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
- Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion

**About the role**:
**All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.**

The Communication Specialist will play an integral part in communicating with New Zealand Aluminium Smelter’s almost 800 employees. The successful applicant will have responsibility for all areas of internal communication including strategy, planning, leader communication, writing, templates, digital media, newsletters and more, and the role will suit someone with broad communication experience who’s ready to take their career to the next level.

The Specialist will work closely with leaders on site and be responsible for all aspects of internal communication, managing a broad range of internal stakeholders on and off site. They must be results-focused and able to deliver results in a dynamic, face-paced environment working across multiple projects with conflicting deadlines.

A key component of the role will involve building employee support for the operation as well as developing content for various channels including producing (including storyboarding and filming) and editing videos.

The successful applicant will be tech-savvy, comfortable engaging with a broad range of internal stakeholders and be in a position to interface with and influence site and corporate leaders and teams to achieve results.

**Accountabilities**

Based in Invercargill and reporting to the Communications Manager, PacOps, with a dotted line to the NZAS CSP Manager, the role has the following responsibilities:

- Work with NZAS leaders and employees, CSP and external affairs and Rio Tinto teams to provide high-quality communication support to NZAS and Rio Tinto Aluminium.
- Source, generate and produce communications materials, including writing stories, producing electronic newsletters, creating digital signs, filming videos etc.
- Contribute to the execution of internal and external communications strategies.
- Execute internal communication plan and strategy making use of proven tactics and approaches that deliver successful outcomes.
- Prepare award submissions, speeches and presentations for NZAS senior leaders
- Support GM video messages and employee town halls
- Work with Rio Tinto Pacific Operations and support the roll-out of Group-wide programs or activities
- Influence site-based team members in best practice communication methods
- Manage performance metrics and reporting

**What you’ll bring**:

- At least five-10 years’ experience in a communications role preferably in the mining industry.
- A bachelor’s degree in communications or related discipline/field such as journalism, public relations or marketing.
- Effectively engage with deliver for a range of internal stakeholders with varying interests and perspectives
- Video production experience - preferably in a mining or ‘high-vis’ environment
- Strong writing skills and editing skills
- Basic level of design experience (beneficial)
- Creativity, initiative and curiosity.

**What we offer**
- A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
- A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP)
- A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
- Flexible working arrangements
- Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
- Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

**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.

**Where you will be working**:
Based at Tiwai Point in New Zealand’s south, NZAS makes aluminium with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the world, and it is the only aluminium smelter to produce ultra-high purity metal using renewable hydroelectricity. Receiving the majority of its alumina from our Yarwun and Queensland Alumina Limited refineries in Gladstone, Australia, the smelter produces more than 335,000 tonnes of aluminium each year.

In January 2021, NZAS reached a new electricity agreement which will extend operations to Decembe



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