The competitive and dynamic environment all Rio Tinto businesses operate in requires that employee workplace skills are developed and maintained at a high level. This is combined with a need for ongoing personal development to realize full potential in a learning environment with strategies, systems, and practices that create alignment between the performances of people at all organizational levels. The key to achieving this alignment is by ensuring the skills are available within the learning community, which will equip leaders with the necessary tools for developing the skills of their employees. This can be accomplished by providing the knowledge and tools within the context of common Rio Tinto HR systems.

Regional Capability Development teams form part of the People and Organizational Support Group and have been established to support regional business units/clients. To ensure adoption of global standards and practices, the Capability Development teams will be part of the Community of Practice under Leadership & People Development, which is managed by the Global Practice Leader.

Primary Purpose:

The Capability Development Senior Advisor’s main focus is to offer highly effective training and OD solutions in order to support the client’s initiative for performance improvement through the development of employees’ skills and organizational capability.

Responsibilities:

The Senior Advisor will be expected to perform a combination of the following tasks:

• Create/offer and deliver training solutions to all clients at the regional level to support organizational improvement.
• Act as the point of contact for various clients and ensure effective communications on a continuous basis, as part of an “account management” arrangement.
• Facilitate training programs such as Crucial Conversations, Coaching, Project Management, Change Management, etc.

• Support the implementation of global practice initiatives such as Coaching and Mentoring.
• Manage multiple priorities in an informal, changing, ambiguous environment given general direction.
• Conduct Needs Analysis with clients and propose effective and efficient solutions.
• Use technology to enhance the effectiveness of training solutions.
• Conduct individual and team assessment processes including administration and feedback/debriefs.
• Facilitate workshops for clients who have unique organization development needs.
• Report on various KPI’s as requested by CD Director.
• Support Employee Engagement initiatives.
• Travel 25-50% travel (within the region; U.S., CA, and South America).

Qualifications/Skills:

The successful candidate will have experience and competency in most, if not all, of the following areas:

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Training & Organization Development, or related field.

• 5-7 years experience in training and organization development.
• Bilingual (French/English)
• Individual and Team assessment processes, LSI, OCI, TMP, MBTI
• Customer service and relationship-building skills.

• Data-gathering and research techniques.
• Oral and written communication skills.
• Training Needs Analysis.
• Design and delivery of training.
• Facilitating group process.
• Internal consulting skills.
• Project management skills
• Influence without authority.
• Facilitating organizational change.
• Work with external vendors and consultants.
• Microsoft Office Suite skills.