The Government People Group exists to work with departments, professions, and functions to build a modern, effective Civil Service.
We support the government workforce with the right skills and capability. We are working with leaders to get the right people in the right jobs, with the right skills and continuous learning to excel in their roles.
We provide leadership, and in turn, create leaders with exceptional line management capability across departments, influencing partners in the wider public sector and beyond. This involves getting our retention and reward strategy right, to nurture specific skills, and create pride and resilience in our workforce.
Our role is also to provide system leadership across central government in pulling together back office services. Collectively, we help support the Cabinet Office’s priority to drive efficiencies, and reforms that will make government work better, to ultimately provide a better service to the public.
This is an exciting time to join our Occupational Psychology Services (OPS) team - part of the Recruitment Directorate in Government People Group in Cabinet Office - as we seek to update and expand our services.
Our Vision
To embed best practice occupational psychology insights and solutions to support the future of the Civil Service, through delivery of high quality psychometric tests and assessments.
Our Priorities
* To be at the leading edge of assessment and selection techniques and digital developments.
* To develop our services through evidence-based research and analysis.
* To ensure diversity and inclusion is embedded in all our activities.
* To provide a seamless and flexible customer experience.
* To meet business requirements with efficient, effective and value for money solutions.
* To provide a great and evolving candidate journey.
Our Service
Acting as an internal consultancy to all of the Civil Service, we collaborate with government departments, functions and professions to develop and deliver high quality, customer-focused assessment products and solutions grounded in occupational psychology and psychometrics. Our services aim to help identify and develop the best people from all backgrounds, including the Civil Service’s prestigious talent programmes.
We also place ourselves at the forefront of assessment innovation, and are actively creating a growing range of evidence-based psychological assessment tools.
You will be joining a high performing multi-disciplinary team of occupational psychologists, psychometricians and digital experts who use evidence-based practice to put the client and user at the heart of what they do. We are a team that embraces innovation to deliver better results, improved efficiency and added value, with a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion.
If you are passionate about applying psychology and psychometrics in the workplace to really add value across a wide and varied agenda, then we really want to hear from you!
The Lead Psychometrician will lead on the psychometric development, testing and system integration of a suite of online tests used for recruitment in the Civil Service and the psychometric aspects of integration with our main candidate management systems. They will develop new content, carry out subject matter expert reviews and content trialling and lead the assembly and implementation of test products with our departmental customers – using a combination of surveys, item trialling, workshops and one to one user research. They will research and analyse new innovations and products, carrying out in-depth statistical evaluations.
The Lead Psychometrician will act as a subject matter expert and represent the service line professionally with a wide range of customers and stakeholders. They will manage the day to day availability and integrity of the test player and analytical function to ensure delivery is according to agreed standards.
The Lead Psychometrician will work very closely with a multi-disciplinary digital team operating an agile project management approach, so will work in an agile way in the design of test integrations, the user interface and test assembly, staging and implementation. Occasional travel within the UK will be a requirement of the role.
The Lead Psychometrician will be a member of a wider team of professional psychologists and will be expected to contribute to the development of professional practice and work collaboratively with colleagues on a wider portfolio of activities when the need arises.
Key responsibilities include:
Psychometric analysis
* Design and conduct psychometric and statistical analysis using CTT and IRT methods
* Conduct advanced statistical and psychometric forensic analyses to enhance test security measures
* Lead the development of new psychometric tests and research in the recruitment and assessment space
Product Management and Development
* Manage the design, trialling and delivery of content and assembly of tests and assessments
* Manage test availability, integrity and performance against agreed service standards
* Manage item banks to ensure they meet psychometric/statistical needs
* Develop and implement specifications and standardised procedures in test design and form assembly to support the publication process
Leadership
* Oversee the integrity of tests and assessments to provide accurate item and candidate performance data to support test construction work
* Act as a subject matter expert for recruitment tests and assessments
* Lead the psychometric implementation of accessibility standards
* Advise on delivery of user research, job analysis, online surveys and customer needs engagement initiatives
* Present and communicate analytical/research findings and proposals to customers, stakeholders and others, orally and in writing
* Keep up-to-date with and knowledge share the latest innovations in psychometrics, modern testing methods and in particular recruitment testing
* Line management of one or two Psychometric Analysts may be required
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