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

• 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

• 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