Communities & Social Performance Manager

Job details

Job title : Communities & Social Performance Manager

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline : November 17, 2025

About the role

• We are looking for a Communities & Social Performance (CSP) Manager in the Africa-Eurasia Region (AER) to focus on management oversight and provision of technical advice to RTX’s exploration operations.
• This is a great opportunity and involves overseeing a small team of professionals, providing CSP technical expertise to project sites with a focus on delivering advice and crafting pragmatic solutions on CSP matters, particularly at the intersection between land access, relations with host communities, cultural heritage protection, and generating local development benefits.
• Reporting to the General Manager – CSP and working in a challenging and exciting environment within CSP, you will be :
• Representing and advising on CSP-related matters within the AER senior leadership team (SLT).
• Providing advice and strategic planning to exploration teams within the region on CSP matters, including identification and management of social risks across a broad spectrum of countries and issues, particularly land access, dialogue and agreement-making with host communities, community benefits, security and human rights, and other issues at the intersection of social and environmental performance such as water or tailings management.
• Furnishing technical advice and management support for CSP personnel working with the AER Generative and Technical Team and country / project team leadership including Exploration Managers and Project Leads throughout the region, particularly with regard to reconciling project timelines with CSP-related objectives.
• In conjunction with the Exploration Director for AER and the global GM for CSP, developing a regional CSP strategy and providing oversight and support for country- and project-level CSP planning to ensure alignment with project goals and bring realistic, risk-based considerations for CSP-related elements to project planning / timelines.
• Identifying and implementing innovative approaches to ensure that promoting CSP-related objectives are shared throughout RTX, particularly among non-CSP personnel. Developing and maintaining the CSP technical community and working closely with other regional CSP managers and the global GM on knowledge-sharing more broadly within RTX and Rio Tinto as a whole.
• Leading and / or supervising any New Country Entry and screening / due diligence processes on issues related to CSP in AER.

What you’ll bring

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