Senior Chartered Occupational Psychologist MI5’s HR team

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