Tracey Heimberger

• Six month Acting manager, heritage and environment environment teams, including managing budgets, while RRKAC restructured to Caring for Country.
• Maintained relationships with mining and government proponents through the restructure changes.
• Planned, coordinated & managed the logistics for survey & monitoring work.
• Mentored heritage and environment workers to perform their duties competently by low literacy and numeracy skills, by developing easy to use pictorial guides.
• Provided support & guided RRKAC elders who attended advisory committee meetings

• Based in Roebourne, developed National Redress program to award victims of institutionalized sexual abuse
• Supported victims across the whole PCLS’ footprint, (Jigalong, South Hedland, Tom Price and outlying communities, Roebourne, Karratha and Onslow

• Established KAC’s heritage and environment programs, including training and mentoring of members.
• Developed the capacity of KAC to deliver on scheduled heritage and environment surveys.
• Developed and implemented remote area safety policy and procedures and compliance for the business
• Stakeholder engagement, developed and maintained constructive relationships with the Kariyarra members, government and mining proponents, including consultants.
• Leveraged support from mining proponents to enhance the capacity of KAC team
• Preparing monthly reports for CEO & KAC Board of Directors
• Experience in following regulations and regulatory procedures, eg isolated artefact finds, investigating cultural legacy sites and removal of incorrect site location from the Aboriginal Sites Registry; and locating the correct site.
• Leading a team of KAC board of directors through two social impact assessments.
• Lead a team of KAC members through the process of developing several social surrounds projects.

Key Achievements:

• Successful expansion of heritage, environment, and land & sea group.
• Responsible for $5.2 million in earnings generated by the KAC in 2023/2024, (the income was split to support wages for community members and for KAC wages and operational costs).
• Successfully wrote four proposals to DPLH for protection, promotion & care of cultural heritage (value over $1mil).
• Using a business model, successfully negotiated consistent charge out rates, for heritage, environment and land and sea work.

• Social performance- used community development as a strategy for projects with First Nations communities in the east and west Pilbara (Rio Tinto’s iron ore footprint)
• Worked in a small team with a General Manager and Manager to develop a community risk assessment template, for outdoor events (at Rio Tinto), which was used for wider use and application across Rio Tinto.
• Native Title Agreements- Played a pivotal role based on relationships, brokering one major commercially binding native title agreement to be signed (for rail cartage of iron-ore to two ports)
• Managed Aboriginal communities & social performance plan. Supported both internal and external parties in Aboriginal community relations
• Managed and supported work by leveraging donations and in-kind support especially for the remote cattle station Ngurrawaana
• Developed a communications plan, at the request of the cattle station
• Aided with development of remote area safety protocols
• Positively promoted their hard work on social media at their request, in order to generate a volunteer list for mustering (500 offers from other cattle station workers)
• Volunteer photographer for mustering
• Negotiated and developed Land Access Procedure for Eastern Guruma on Hamersley Station
• Managed relationships between Rio Tinto and Aboriginal language groups in the east and west Pilbara
• Developed mining on Country publications with land-connected people (e.g., Why Agreements Matter; and Gender Matters)
• Designed and used oracle-based software, SAP & Xero for reporting; & worked with Rio Tinto computer coders to develop profiles for reporting Aboriginal engagement by age & location

Key Achievements:

• Won a Western Australian Department of Fire and Emergency (DFES) safety award for successfully promoting the use of battery and solar lights at Wakathurni after the deaths of several children in a caravan fire
• Played a leading role in the success of striking the multi-million dollar future acts deal, Rio Tinto-Ngarluma mining agreement
• Published a book as part of the Burrup Peninsula Series, relating birds to rock art, ‘The Burrup and Beyond- Birds and Rock Art’, co-authored with Ken Mulvaney
• Nature photography, in particular birds (published a community reference guide on local flora and birds for Wickham)
• Prepared external communications & internal web-based stories.
• A part of the team who prepared 1. Why Gender Matters (Source, Rio Tinto website) 2. Why Agreements Matter (Source, Rio Tinto Website)