Specialist: Talent Assessments 48 views

Job Overview

  • Salary Offer Market related
  • Experience Level Junior
  • Total Years Experience 0-5

Purpose:

A financial services company is seeking a Specialist: Talent Assessments who will be responsible to leverage exceptional talent practices expertise and business insight to strategically partner with our business units; you will design, implement, and manage assessment solutions to meet the integrated talent needs of our organisation, including recruitment, development, and organisational culture.

 

Key Job Outputs:

  • Staying at the forefront of industry trends and integrating leading practices into our assessment strategies
  • Supporting and contributing to the evolution of the assessment strategy and product vision
  • Providing meaningful advisory and data-driven decision support for talent acquisition, management (identification, succession), and development (upskilling/reskilling) using commercially oriented assessment tools
  • Translating integrated talent requirements into implications for assessments at individual, team and organisational levels
  • Collaborating across the talent management value chain to design and implement assessment solutions that meet business needs
  • Exploring innovative approaches and technologies to enhance our assessment practices and transform business value through assessments
  • Partnering with HR and Line Executives to drive strategic business decisions with talent assessment data and advisory
  • Translating assessment data into commercial insights and talent recommendations at all organisational levels
  • Ensuring a phenomenal workforce experience through effective assessment implementations that contribute to candidate, team, and organisational development
  • Mentoring and line-managing psychometric interns, ensuring their development and integration into the Talent Assessment team
  • Building and maintaining strong relationships across all organisational levels to maintain the credibility of talent advisory roles

 

Core Competencies:

  • Innovative
  • Continuous learning
  • Proactive
  • Curious
  • Agile
  • Passionate
  • Critical thinking mindset
  • Communication and presentation skills
  • Collaborative and consultive
  • Assessment software proficiency (competency-based, psychometrics and other relevant techniques
  • Data analytics
  • Reporting tools

 

Qualifications:

  • Master’s degree in industrial psychology (preferred); Honours Degree in Industrial Psychology or similar (required)
  • HPCSA registration as Psychologist (preferred); HPCSA registration as Psychometrist Independent Practice (required)

 

Experience:

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in talent assessment and management
  • Proven experience in designing, implementing, and evaluating assessment solutions
  • Experience in project management and agile delivery methodologies
  • Strong experience in stakeholder management, consultation and mentoring interns
  • Deep knowledge of South African labour laws, regulations, and ethical guidelines related to assessment practices

 

Salary:   Market related

 

Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, kindly consider your application as unsuccessful.

All personal information received will be processed in accordance with The Protection of Personal Information Act No. 4 OF 2013

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