Position Overview & Specifications
Key responsibilities:
- New Selection Model/Deployment Changes
- Design of the new internal selection assessment materials, utilising our new competency framework
- Design and delivery of training for hiring managers and independents
- Quality assurance and evaluation of new processes
- Future Internal Selection Model
- Work across the UK’s Intelligence Services with stakeholders at a strategic level to shape our new approach to internal selection across the three organisations, leading on MI5's requirements
- Play a key role in defining a joint approach to defining and measuring strengths, skills and aptitudes for use in the future selection process
- Undertake research, including job analysis and other evidence-based methodologies to identify important thematic role criteria
- Leadership & Talent
- Lead on developing our new 360 process for Senior Leaders
- Support in developing and refining our central leadership talent process
- Design from scratch how MI5 can best identify and develop talent at junior grades
- Performance Development
- Support the design of how MI5 embeds the use of competencies across performance development, talent and wider HR processes
- Monitor the use of the new competency framework, working with our partners MI6 and GCHQ to identify shared changes required following rollout
Essential job related skills/knowledge/qualifications required:
- Chartered Occupational Psychologist (HCPC Registered)
- MSc in Organisational or Occupational Psychology or equivalent
- BPS accredited test user in Occupational Ability and Personality testing (Level A and Level B)
- Experience and expertise in:
- Customer/stakeholder consultation at multiple stages of the consultancy cycle
- Delivery of complex occupational psychology requirements in a broad range of HR contexts
- Development of pro-EDI innovations/interventions
- Job analysis research and capability framework development
- Qualitative and quantitative analysis, with proficiency in MS Excel and ability to conduct statistical analysis using Excel, SPSS or similar statistical packages
Desirable:
- In-house consultancy experience
- OP Chartership supervisor and assessor experience
- Excellence in EDI-related knowledge and practice in an occupational context
- Experience and expertise in organisational development and change
- Delivery of OP expertise in a security context