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The role owns the capability agenda for the location, builds strong relationships with employees and leaders, understands workforce sentiment and translates business needs into scalable capability, career and development solutions.\nWhat would you be responsible for:\n1. Capability Strategy & Business Partnership\nOutcome: The location has the capability it needs today and is building the capability it will need tomorrow.\nResponsibilities\nPartner with functional leaders to understand business priorities, capability gaps and workforce requirements.\nDevelop and execute the location capability strategy aligned to Group Services priorities.\nTranslate business challenges into targeted development and capability-building interventions.\nServe as a trusted adviser to leaders on capability, talent and organisational development matters.\nEnsure capability considerations are embedded into business planning, transitions and growth initiatives.\n2. Career Development & Capability Architecture\nOutcome: Employees understand what success looks like, where they can grow and how to get there.\nResponsibilities\nOwn the competency architecture, career pathways and capability framework for the location.\nBuild and maintain structured career development pathways for employees across bands and functions.\nDrive adoption of Career Compass and related career resources.\nPartner with leaders to improve quality of career conversations and development planning.\nEstablish capability assessments and proficiency frameworks to support objective development decisions.\n3. Learning, Leadership & Development\nOutcome: Employees have access to meaningful development opportunities that improve performance and prepare them for future roles.\nResponsibilities\nDesign and deliver learning and leadership programmes aligned to business and employee needs.\nOwn leadership journeys across different career stages and leadership levels.\nFacilitate workshops, leadership forums and development conversations.\nDrive mentoring, coaching and peer-learning initiatives.\nEnsure learning programmes are linked to measurable business outcomes rather than training activity alone.\n4. Employee Engagement, Sentiment & Growth\nOutcome: The capability team maintains a strong understanding of employee needs and actively improves the employee experience.\nResponsibilities\nMaintain regular connection with employees across functions and locations.\nGather and analyse employee feedback, sentiment and development needs.\nIdentify emerging capability, engagement and retention risks.\nSupport initiatives that strengthen employee experience, inclusion, wellbeing, psychological safety and leadership effectiveness.\nAct as an advocate for employee growth and development opportunities.\n5. Talent & Workforce Development\nOutcome: The organisation builds sustainable capability pipelines for future growth.\nResponsibilities\nSupport succession planning and talent identification activities.\nPartner with Talent Acquisition to understand future workforce requirements.\nDesign development pathways for critical talent segments.\nSupport onboarding and capability integration of new teams, functions and service lines.\nBuild capability solutions that enable future expansion into new functional areas.\n6. Governance, Measurement & Continuous Improvement\nOutcome: Capability investments are governed, measured and continuously improved.\nResponsibilities\nDefine and track capability, talent and employee development metrics.\nMonitor programme effectiveness, participation, capability uplift and business impact.\nManage capability budgets, vendors and external partnerships.\nLead reviews of capability programmes and continuously improve the portfolio.\nReport capability and talent insights to senior leadership forums.\n7. Digital Capability & Future Skills\nOutcome: The workforce is prepared for new technologies and ways of working.\nResponsibilities\nDrive adoption of digital learning and capability platforms.\nBuild awareness and capability around AI, automation and emerging technologies.\nPartner with business leaders to identify future skill requirements.\nEnsure employees have access to development pathways for future-focused capabilities.\nUse learning analytics and workforce insights to inform future capability strategy.\nWhat makes this role different?\nThis role is not primarily an L&D programme manager. It is a Capability Business Partner for the location, responsible for:\nUnderstanding business priorities\nUnderstanding employee sentiment\nDriving career development\nBuilding leadership capability\nCreating future talent pipelines\nConnecting people strategy to business strategy\nWhat experience, skills and qualifications are required:\nA Bachelor's/ Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organisational Psychology or related field \nA Bachelor’s/Master’s/Professional Degree in Technical/IT/ITES or related field will be preferred (Engineering etc.)\n12-16 years of experience in learning and development, capability development, talent management or organisational development, with demonstrable experience leading enterprise-scale initiatives \nProven experience designing competency frameworks, career architecture or capability models at organisational scale \nExperience leading programmes across multiple geographies and cultures, ideally within a global shared services or capability centre environment \nAny L&D, assessment or coaching related certification: DiSC/BELBIN/Hogan/MBTI/ICF or equivalent will be preferred\nDeep understanding of adult learning principles, instructional design methodologies and behavioural change approaches \nStrong commercial acumen - including budget ownership, vendor management and building investment cases for capability spend \nAdvanced stakeholder management and influencing skills, with credibility at senior leadership level \nStrong analytical capability - able to define meaningful capability metrics, interpret learning analytics and translate insight into strategy \nProven project and programme management skills, managing multiple complex initiatives simultaneously across competing priorities \nExperience coaching or developing others within a team, formally or informally \nExcellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to simplify complexity for senior audiences \nOur Contribution to greater common good - Our Sustainability Programs:\nSustainability considerations are deeply embedded in the way we run our business. We have put climate change and the low-carbon transition at the heart of our business strategy. We are decarbonising our assets, helping our customers decarbonise by developing new products and technologies, and growing in materials essential for the energy transition. \nOur sustainability framework focuses on the 2 lead goals: responsible consumption and production (SDG 12) and decent work and economic growth. Our business operations also contribute to 8 supporting SDGs \nClimate Change - Our strategy and approach to climate change are supported by strong governance, and we are building our processes and capabilities to enable us to reach net zero emissions by 2050. \nTalent, Diversity, Inclusions - Everyday Respect and Pay Equity are our focus areas. Only safe, respectful, and inclusive workplace can ensure happiness \nHuman Rights - Freedom from slavery is a human right and we incorporate our work on preventing and addressing any involvement in modern slavery into our broader human rights programme. \nAbout Rio Tinto\nRio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.\nWe have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs - striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.\nRespect and Inclusion\nAt Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.\nWe are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome - they are essential to our success. 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