Senior Psychometrician

Position: Senior Psychometrician

Location: Onsite / Hybrid National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), Springfield, VA

Position Type: Full Time Employment

About the Organization

GSX is a veteran-owned firm that designs, implements, and manages innovative workforce strategies and solutions that enable organizations to better leverage people to meet current and future workforce challenges. GSX provides a suite of human capital solutions that support a competency-driven talent pipeline for education, private, and public enterprises.

Our mission is to build resilient workforces. Our innovative tools enable organizational leaders to make better decisions about people, leading to actions that create enduring impact. To that end, we are committed to ensuring individual performance and organizational readiness now and in the future.

Overview/Position Summary:

Global Skills Exchange (GSX) is a small business specializing in designing workforce and education strategies and processes to allow clients to meet their specific performance goals. GSX’s core business model revolves around defining functional competency models and developing valid and reliable assessment tools as the foundation of credentialing and educational programs. This position is at the client location and is 100% client-facing in carrying out responsibilities.

The Senior Psychometrician serves as the primary point of contact for the design, development, delivery, and continual management of current and future assessments and certification programs. These responsibilities include the development of test blueprints and frameworks, development and maintenance of assessments and individual assessment items. The Senior Psychometrician is also responsible for maintaining clear and direct communication with clients and the successful completion of project timelines and deliverables. The salary range for this position is $120,000 - $160,000, depending on experience, and the Senior Psychometrician reports to the Sr. Director for Defense, Intelligence and Security.

Responsibilities:

Certification Development and Maintenance – 70%

• Maintain a centralized and standardized method of test development (e.g., item development, topic weighting, etc.)
• Manage, supervise and conduct psychometric analysis (i.e., item-level and test-level) of exams for pilot tests, production versions, and ongoing maintenance
• Leads/facilitates meetings with clients to gather information related to organizational needs, wants, and constraints related to the project
• Provide technical support to design, develop, implement and maintain certification programs
• Tailor project tasks to meet the requirements and constraints identified by clients during initial meetings
• Provide input for monthly update reports for clients to communicate progress, success, and future action
• Monitor projects to identify and mitigate risks, and develop a plan to meet project requirements
• Recommend project approach and evaluate timelines
• Propose certification program evaluation approaches to clients
• Research and provide technical guidance and recommend strategies to reach mission objectives

Accreditation – 25%

• Lead the development and execution of certification assessments so all aspects are in compliance with major third-party accreditation standards (e.g., NCCA)
• Assist in the preparation of accreditation packages, when necessary
• Write technical reports and official documentation to support the defensibility of high-stakes assessments
• Supervise and oversee professional development of Senior Analysts and Analysts

Business Development – 5%

• Leverage GSX skills and competencies with current clients to maintain relationships and identify potential business opportunities
• Leverage external relationships to identify current and emerging trends in target business sectors

Client Site Location:

• Works at the client location and teleworks, 100% client facing working environment
• Ability to travel 10%
• Represents GSX equities, serving as the GSX’s primary POC with the client and partners

Required skills:

• Excellent written and oral communication
• Experience using Excel, SPSS, or R for data analysis
• Ability to organize, plan, and prioritize work to accomplish client goals
• Ability to think long-term in order to plan for and reach long-range objectives
• Ability to work constructively and cooperatively with others
• Knowledge of advanced psychometric principles and procedures

Required Qualifications:

• 11 years of experience managing projects and client expectations
• Active Secret clearance, TS/SCI
• Master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology or a related field

Preferred Qualifications:

• Institute for Credentialing Excellence Credentialing Specialist
• Knowledge of certification development processes
• Experience in the Defense and Intelligence community

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer

Salary : $120,000 - $160,000