Lead Psychometrician

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 274670**Salary**:

- £50,694 - £57,654**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- CO - Civil Service Human Resources**Type of role**:

- Human Resources
- Psychology**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Glasgow, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, YorkAbout the job

**Job summary**:
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.

**Job description**:
The Lead Psychometrician will work very closely with a multi-disciplinary digital team operating an agile project management approach, which is based in Bristol, 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.

We are hosting a Q&A event about the role on Friday 24 March at 14:00 UK time. A link to the event will be included in the following LinkedIn post for anyone interested in joining the event.

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

**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

**Research**
- Design, conduct and manage research projects, trials and studies

**Leadership**
- 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

**Person specification**:
In order to be successful in this role you will:

- Excellent oral/written and interpersonal communications, leadership and management skills for multi-functional projects and operations
- Ability to combine theory-based, academic and empirical experiences of developing new research / technical reports
- Ability to work with various stakeholders, committees and governing boards, vendors, consultants, and business partners of different backgrounds
- Ability to focus on technical details while maintaining high level perspectives
- Must enjoy working in a team environment, be intellectually curious, conscientious, and motivated to work to continually improve the quality and validity of programme deliverables
- Project management skills are required to effectively manage multiple project assignments, timelines, deliverables, and milestones in accordance with Government Digital Services standards

You’ll be reporting directly to the Head of Online Tests and Assessments. You will work with a variety of clients, departments and professions across government. You will need to be able to demonstrate flexibility, the ability to deliver at pace and be someone who your team can really rely on.

Do you see yourself as a talented individual that can achieve all this, progressing yourself and our team to the next level?

**Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience**
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