Senior Advisor Programme Governance & Compliance

Rio Tinto
Perth
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceSkills: ["Analytical skills","Written communication","Organisational skills","Stakeholder management","Continuous improvement"]

Support legal, mandate, and agreement compliance across Traditional Owner Partnerships by tracking obligations and mandate conditions, maintaining decision and risk records, and coordinating assurance evidence. Partner with Legal, Agreement Making, Engagement, Heritage, Finance, and operational teams to monitor compliance frameworks, update governance dashboards and trackers, and prepare briefing notes and compliance materials for leadership review.

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Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto
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Senior Advisor Programme Governance & Compliance

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Job Summary

Support legal, mandate, and agreement compliance across Traditional Owner Partnerships by tracking obligations and mandate conditions, maintaining decision and risk records, and coordinating assurance evidence. Partner with Legal, Agreement Making, Engagement, Heritage, Finance, and operational teams to monitor compliance frameworks, update governance dashboards and trackers, and prepare briefing notes and compliance materials for leadership review.
Location: Perth
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •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.
  • •Maintain dashboards and trackers for agreement obligations, mandate conditions, decision status, risks, issues, dependencies, and assurance actions, coordinating reporting across workstreams.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Medical BenefitsHealth InsuranceInsurance CoverSalary PackagingLeave

Key Requirements

  • •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.
  • •Excellent written communication skills to prepare briefing notes, compliance papers, legal review materials, reports, and executive updates.
Skills:Analytical skillsWritten communicationOrganisational skillsStakeholder managementContinuous improvement

Company Brief

Rio Tinto
Global mining and metals company that explores, mines, processes, and markets mineral resources including iron ore, aluminum, copper, and lithium. Supplies raw materials to industries worldwide across energy, infrastructure, transportation, and manufacturing.
Industry: Mining & Metals
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1873
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