Principal Adviser Change Management

About the role

Rio Tinto is looking for a Principal Adviser Change Management to drive people-centred change across its People Function, reporting to the Manager Capability and Change. You will independently lead change planning, impact assessment and stakeholder analysis for medium-complexity initiatives, turning change impacts into practical adoption, learning and capability solutions. The role works across operating model transitions, service improvements and technology-enabled transformation, and is based in Brisbane or Perth on a 12-month fixed-term contract.

Key responsibilities

• Lead change planning, impact assessment and stakeholder analysis for People Function initiatives, identifying adoption risks and practical responses
• Develop and run integrated change, learning and capability plans aligned with program milestones and stakeholder needs
• Translate process, technology and organisation design impacts into learning pathways, training, toolkits and adoption activities
• Design leader enablement resources such as talking points, FAQs, coaching guides and support materials
• Facilitate workshops, engagement sessions, capability needs analyses and readiness activities
• Coordinate sponsors and change champion networks to build visible sponsorship and consistent implementation
• Monitor readiness, adoption, learning completion and stakeholder feedback to target interventions and reduce risk
• Strengthen change and capability maturity by improving frameworks, templates and playbooks, sharing lessons learned and coaching colleagues

Required profile

• Demonstrated experience independently leading change planning, impact assessment, stakeholder mapping, readiness and adoption for medium-complexity initiatives
• Experience translating organisational, process or technology impacts into learning, capability and leader-enablement solutions
• Proven ability to influence leaders, facilitate workshops and coordinate sponsors, change champions and cross-functional partners
• Experience using readiness, adoption and feedback measures to identify risks and adjust interventions
• Experience delivering change in a complex organisation across project, communications, technology, operational and People stakeholders

Required skills

• Helpful: working knowledge of ADKAR and impact-analysis and stakeholder-mapping techniques
• Helpful: familiarity with HR processes, people technology ecosystems or organisation-design change
• Helpful: experience building reusable change or capability frameworks, templates, playbooks, toolkits or communities of practice

What we offer

• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• Competitive base salary with an annual incentive program
• Medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and their immediate family
• Share ownership plan, company-provided insurance and salary sacrifice and packaging options
• Career development and education assistance, family-friendly health and wellbeing support
• Vacation, paid parental and sick leave, and employee discounts