Personnel Research Psychologist
US Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
How to Apply:
To apply, visit https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/807885300
Open and Close Date: 09/03/2024 to 09/09/2024. This job will close when we have received 150 applications which may be sooner than the closing date.
Salary: $72,553 - $140,713 per year.
Pay Scale & Grade: GS 11 - 12
Location: 5 vacancies in the following location: Anywhere in the U.S. (remote job)
Appointment Type: Recent Graduates: This job is open to individuals who have graduated from an accredited educational institute or certificate program within the last 2 years or 6 years for Veterans.
Summary:
As a recent graduate in industrial/organizational psychology, if hired, you may develop, implement, and evaluate hiring assessments; develop and administer surveys; conduct job analysis/competency modeling, gap analysis, and/or program evaluation for Federal agencies.
Duties
Typical work assignments may include under supervision:
- Leading and/or participating on project teams to develop and/or contract for innovative assessment tools.
- Conducting Government-wide and/or agency job analyses.
- Developing and implementing competency models, workforce gap assessments, and leadership assessments.
- Helping agencies identify, evaluate, and solve organizational problems using customer action planning, satisfaction surveys, employee surveys, and focus groups.
- Establishing project objectives, activities, timelines, budgets, and staffing plans.
- Advising agencies and internal senior management on implementing assessment strategies.
- Evaluating training, candidate development, or other human resources programs.
About the Organization:
These positions are in one of five groups in the Assessment and Evaluation (AE) organization. AE is in Human Resources Strategy and Evaluation Solutions (HRSES), Human Resources Solutions (HRS), U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
HR Solutions provides transformative human capital solutions that enable the Federal Government to solve the nation's toughest challenges. We take pride in our agile and diverse teams bringing expertise and human capital technology to create evidence-based solutions and offering a work environment based on integrity, excellence, agility, inclusion, and service.
Our nationwide cadre of human resources (HR) specialists, psychologists, faculty, management analysts, and program managers partner to shape and advance excellence in the Federal Government through our reimbursable human resources products and services. We partner with agencies to offer customer-focused, optimal solutions to meet their human resources needs in areas including staff acquisition, recruitment and branding, HR strategy, leadership training, workforce planning, and much more.
Assessment and Evaluation delivers rigorous assessment solutions that help select candidates with the right competencies, maximize the performance of the workforce and its leadership, and assess and evaluate organizational performance to foster the right culture and customer experience by conducting basic, applied, and innovative research encompassing the full gamut of human capital management, with a specific focus on individual, organizational, and outcome assessment. AE comprises five groups:
Hiring Assessment - Professional and Administrative (HAPA) - Focuses on the development, validation, and administration of cognitive and non-cognitive competency based, skill assessments for professional and administrative occupations. Assessments may be used for selection or promotion purposes. This includes job analysis, written and non-written tests, job knowledge tests, performance tests, and computer simulations.
Hiring Assessment - Public Safety and Intelligence (HAPSI) - Focuses on the development, validation, and administration of cognitive and non-cognitive competency based, skill assessments for public safety and security occupations. Assessments may be used for selection or promotion purposes. This includes job analysis, written and non-written tests, job knowledge tests, performance tests, and computer simulations.
Hiring Assessment - Leadership (HAL) - Focuses on the development, validation, and administration of cognitive and non-cognitive competency based, skill assessments for supervisor, manager, and executive occupations. Assessments may be used for selection or promotion purposes. This includes competency modeling, job analysis, written and non-written tests, job knowledge tests, performance tests, and computer simulations.
Leadership and Employee Development Assessment (LEDA) - Focuses on the development, validation, and administration of leadership and workforce planning assessments to assess leader and employee effectiveness and support leader and employee development. These assessments target competencies, personality, and leadership potential. Also, LEDA conducts gap analysis for workforce training and development.
Employee and Customer Experience Assessment (ECEA) - Focuses on the development and administration of organizational assessments to assess climate and organizational outcomes, including organizational climate, employee experience, customer experience, exit, and custom surveys. Also, ECE conducts program evaluations and develops organizational effectiveness indices.
Areas of research and specialization are not limited to the above. All groups are responsible for conducting research and applying innovative assessment procedures and technologies to develop practical solutions to human resource management problems, and for providing technical assistance to departments and agencies in their areas of expertise. Group managers also strive to build reimbursable interagency partnerships to maximize the use of governmental resources.
See the Job Opportunity Announcement linked above for additional information.