Capability & Learning Transformation Lead

Kapitol; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Kapitol in Melbourne is redefining capability in a modern construction business. This AI-enabled role leads how expertise is captured, structured and deployed where it’s needed most, driving workforce readiness and performance across projects.

You’ll partner with leaders and SMEs to build scalable development frameworks, transform knowledge management, and embed learning into everyday work. If you’re curious, innovative and delivery-focused, join Kapitol to shape the industry’s capability

Qualifications

• Experience leading capability, learning, workforce readiness or transformation initiatives within complex organisations.
• Strong track record partnering with leaders to identify capability needs and deliver practical business solutions.
• Experience designing scalable development frameworks, pathways, capability programs or operating models.

Responsibilities

• Lead capability, learning and workforce readiness initiatives across a large organisation.
• Partner with leaders and SMEs to identify capability gaps and design scalable programs.
• Embed knowledge management, AI-enabled learning and development into business processes.

Skills

Capability leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

AI in learning

Strategy development

Job description

About Us

Kapitol is an innovation-driven construction company headquartered in Melbourne, with a growing presence across Australia. As one of Australia's fastest-growing design and construct enterprises, we proudly combine a fresh approach with decades of expertise. The result is smarter, safer and more agile building solutions, underpinned by a diverse portfolio spanning large-scale data centres, alongside commercial, residential, education and emerging modular construction projects.

We're driven by our core values: Supportive, Authentic, Inspirational, Driven and Customer-Centric.

What truly sets us apart is our people.

We believe our competitive advantage comes from the capability, growth and performance of our teams. That's why we invest heavily in professional development, continuous improvement and creating meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress their careers.

Learning at Kapitol is embedded into the way we work. We actively capture lessons learned across projects, encourage knowledge sharing and continually challenge ourselves to improve. As we continue to grow, we're focused on setting a new benchmark for capability development within the construction industry, combining technology, innovation and modern learning approaches to create scalable, high-impact development experiences.

The Opportunity

At Kapitol, we're reimagining how capability is built across a modern construction business.

We're moving beyond traditional learning models towards an AI-enabled capability ecosystem where expertise is captured from the people doing the work, structured effectively, and deployed where it's needed most.

This newly created role will lead that transformation.

Working across our People & Culture function, you'll partner with business leaders, subject matter experts and operational teams to transform how capability is built, knowledge is shared and workforce readiness is achieved across Kapitol.

This isn't a traditional Learning & Development role.

We're looking for someone who can bring together capability, learning, change, AI and knowledge management to help us create an industry-leading approach to workforce development.

You’ll help shape a self-sustaining learning culture where employees are empowered to take ownership of their development through personalised growth opportunities, supported by modern capability solutions and readily accessible expertise.

Through a combination of capability, knowledge management, AI-enabled learning solutions and professional development initiatives, you'll help accelerate workforce readiness, reduce time-to-competency and strengthen business performance across the organisation.

Role Snapshot:

• Partner with leaders and subject matter experts to identify capability gaps, workforce challenges and opportunities to improve organisational performance.
• Design and implement scalable capability programs, learning pathways, development frameworks and personalised development experiences that support current and future business needs.
• Transform how organisational knowledge is captured, structured and shared, ensuring employees can readily access expertise and practical guidance when they need it.
• Leverage AI and emerging technologies to improve how learning content, knowledge and capability solutions are created, maintained and deployed at scale.
• Work closely with SMEs across the business to extract critical knowledge and translate it into practical, workflow-embedded learning and capability solutions.
• Build tools, frameworks and repeatable approaches that enable teams to contribute knowledge and capability content at scale.
• Drive initiatives that accelerate time-to-competency and improve workforce readiness, helping employees contribute confidently and effectively sooner.
• Measure the effectiveness of capability initiatives through adoption, engagement, performance and workforce readiness outcomes, continuously refining and improving approaches.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by embedding lessons learned, knowledge sharing and ongoing development across the business.
• Evolve and enhance existing development frameworks, ensuring they remain relevant, scalable and aligned to business needs, career pathways and future workforce requirements.

About You

You understand that capability isn't simply about delivering training. It's about helping organisations perform better.

You've built your career in operationally complex environments where workforce readiness directly impacts performance, productivity, safety, customer outcomes or business growth. You may have supported dispersed workforces, multiple locations, frontline teams, technical specialists or rapidly changing business environments, and understand how to build capability that is practical, scalable and embedded into the way people work.

You’ll likely bring:

• Experience leading capability, learning, workforce readiness or transformation initiatives within complex organisations.
• A strong track record partnering with leaders to identify capability needs and deliver practical business solutions.
• Experience designing and evolving scalable development frameworks, pathways, capability programs or operating models.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI, automation and emerging technologies to enhance capability development, knowledge management, learning design or workforce performance.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to bring people on the journey.
• Experience capturing knowledge from subject matter experts and translating it into scalable capability solutions.
• A curious, innovative and solutions-focused mindset.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and evolving new approaches, frameworks and ways of working.
• A passion for challenging legacy thinking and delivering capability initiatives that create measurable business outcomes.

You've likely worked in environments where capability is viewed as a business enabler rather than a compliance exercise, and where success is measured by adoption, performance improvement, reduced time-to-competency and workforce readiness, not simply training completion.

This role is best suited to someone who sees learning as one component of a broader capability strategy, rather than the end goal itself.

Why Kapitol

At Kapitol, we're redefining construction through innovation, technology and an uncompromising commitment to excellence.

• Ranked Australia's #1 builder in Hubexo's 2026 Construction League Report.
• Strong pipeline of technically complex, large-scale projects with high repeat-client revenue.
• Digital-first and AI-enabled organisation, with technology embedded into how we plan, build and operate.
• Opportunity to drive capability at scale across a rapidly growing organisation.
• Direct access to senior leaders and subject matter experts across the business.
• A culture that genuinely values professional development, continuous learning, growth and improvement.
• The opportunity to help shape an industry-leading approach to workforce capability and development.
• Values-led environment that is Supportive, Authentic, Inspirational, Driven and Customer-Centric.

At Kapitol, we're building more than projects. We're building capability, careers and a culture of continuous growth.

For more information, download our Capability Statement for an overview of who we are and what we're delivering: Kapitol