Project Lead - Capability Development

Project Lead – Capability Development

• Project focused role leading a breakthrough project creating an industry leading welcome and connect experience for our new employees
• Defining the employee value proposition
• Located in Perth on a 12-month fixed term contract with flexible working arrangements

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for an Agile trained, creative Project Lead – Capability Development, to help us in Rio Tinto Iron Ore, create industry’s leading welcome and connect experience for all our new employees.

The project will focus on developing and designing a new employee onboarding experience that facilitates speed to belonging, confidence, connection, compliance, and speed to competence. You will be required to define business impact measures, determine & design appropriate onboarding content and delivery methods to meet the needs of our business.

Supported by the broader Capability Development Team, this role will lead the initiative from concept to delivery including developing and managing project scopes, plans, budgets, resources, change management, communication and stakeholders, plans, work packages, milestones, and project reporting.

This role is a great opportunity for capable Agile Project Management professional with an understanding of learning and development to join an exciting and high-energy change environment where you will be supported and empowered by your leader to do things differently with a focus on placing people at our heart.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the General Manager - Capability Development, you'll be required to:

• Define onboarding program outcomes with a link to business objectives
• Identify critical behaviours and required drivers
• Design onboarding content
• Determine delivery method, technology, and infrastructure requirements
• Design evaluation tools

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrated Agile Project Management experience leading and delivering learning & development initiatives
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated experience in managing internal communication
• Stakeholder Engagement and Management
• Experience leading a small team of professionals
• Demonstrated experience in delivering through others in a matrix organisational structure without formal authority, specifically demonstration of project and change management
• Agile methodologies – design thinking, persona led journeys
• Experience managing change within large complex organisations

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking, and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Company provided insurance cover
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers –generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium –the world’s first to be certified “responsible” –helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you’ll be working

You will be based at our head office located in Perth Central Park building, working Monday to Friday. We encourage agile and flexible work arrangements.

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Rio Tinto operates the world's largest integrated portfolio of iron ore assets with industry-leading margins. Our premium product suite, including our flagship Pilbara blend, drives strong customer relationships and is supported by technical and commercial marketing expertise. The iron ore business continues to be the world's largest autonomous truck operator and a proud leader in automated mining technologies.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We 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. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

Applications close on the 30th January 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)