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Senior Chartered Occupational Psychologist MI5’s HR team

🏢 Secret Intelligence Service (MI5) · 📍 London, England · 🕒 Oct 14, 2026 · Ref: OP-VERIF-336B6C48
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£34,197 - £57,999
£2,850 - £4,833 / mo
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Position Overview & Specifications

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
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