Cultural Heritage Advisor

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress.

The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper, world-shaper.

About the Role

Seeking an opportunity where you can create meaningful change, contribute to heritage preservation, and support responsible business practices? We have an exciting and rewarding opportunity for a Cultural Heritage Advisor to join our External Relations and Sustainability team and play a vital role in protecting and managing heritage values across our Western Australian operations.

As a Cultural Heritage Advisor, you will be instrumental in strengthening our organisation’s social performance by delivering cultural heritage survey programs, managing cultural heritage values identified as a result, and fostering positive relationships with internal stakeholders and Traditional Owners.

In this role, your key contributions will be:


* Enhancing cultural heritage management by identifying survey and monitoring needs and developing effective scopes of work.


* Coordinating field-based programs, ensuring the successful scheduling and execution of cultural heritage surveys and monitoring activities in collaboration with Traditional Owners.


* Implementing cultural heritage management actions in consultation with Traditional Owners.


* Supporting the development of applications for statutory approvals under the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972, Aboriginal Heritage Regulations 1974 and Heritage Act 2018 where impacts to cultural heritage places cannot be avoided.


* Working safely in the field and confidently supporting Traditional Owners, consultants and field support teams to adhere to Alcoa’s safety systems and processes.


* Providing technical advice on heritage matters, reviewing survey deliverables, and contributing to process improvements in cultural heritage management.

What’s on offer


* Attractive remuneration and variable bonus plan.


* Employee growth and development opportunities.


* Parental leave support for all caregivers.


* Employee assistance program for personal support services.


* Alcoa Live Well program offering travel, lifestyle, health and wellbeing discounts.


* Generous leave entitlements including a leisure a day off every 4-week period.

What you can bring to the role


* Tertiary qualifications in either archaeology, anthropology, or cultural heritage management with previous experience in a related field.


* Demonstrated ability to work with Aboriginal people in a sensitive, respectful, and culturally appropriate manner.


* Knowledge and understanding of cultural heritage legislation in Western Australia and relevant industry standards and best practices.


* Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and communicate complex data.


* Sound working knowledge of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) skilled in creating maps...