Essential Skills:
- Experience in a similar role
- Project management experience
- Interpersonal skills
- Excellent time management
- Ability to negotiate and influence
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Presentation skills
The following would also be an asset:
- Previous consultancy experience
- PRINCE2 (or equivalent project management training)
- Degree or equivalent qualification in HR, Business or Psychology
The Psychology Project Consultant will be a client-facing project manager based within the Psychology team and reporting to the Psychology Manager. They will create and manage project critical paths, coordinate the work of the team, maintain our project management software and create monthly project updates. A key focus of this role will be the relationship management of client partners involved in Psychology projects.
The Psychology Project Consultant will work on two main project streams:
- Commercial psychology projects – The Psychology Project Consultant will support the delivery of benchmarks and associated exercises (e.g. competency mapping, trend & frequency analyses) as well as process mapping each project to create a globally standardised set of benchmarking materials.
- R&D projects – the majority of our research involves our clients or university partners. The Psychology Project Consultant will support the team when we conduct projects such as validation research and new product development.
You do not need to be a psychologist / hold psychology qualifications to be suited for this role. The role would suit someone with proven project management experience and a desire to expand their technical knowledge of Thomas tools and solutions. The Psychology Project Consultant will be developed into a technical specialist who can support UK & International psychology projects that involve our clients.
Thomas International provides people assessments which empower business leaders to transform the performance of their teams and individuals – and deliver an immediate impact on their organisation.
We help our clients recruit, retain, develop and manage their people. We’ll give insight into staff – what motivates them, their core strengths and limitations, and their potential. And we’ll add a high level of certainty to all people-related decisions.
Thomas is different because our assessments are straightforward to understand and quick to use, with rapid results. Our client service teams will train and advise and provide practical assistance. Their aim is to empower managers to use people assessments to create maximum value for their organisation.
Thomas has been at the forefront of assessment innovation since 1981. We provide assessments in 56 languages and have a presence in over 60 countries. Today we are working with 32,000 companies and 250,000 trained Thomas users worldwide. Our clients span every type of business of all sizes and complete over 1.5 million assessments every year.
The Thomas Group of Companies also includes in Thomas Education and Thomas Sport.
The Job Profile indicates that the job holder should be capable of collecting information and imparting it to others. The job occupant whilst being adaptable by nature, will be required to ensure strict conformity with rules, systems and protocol. The area of work is likely to be of a specialist/technical nature and the person fulfilling the role should be friendly and have the ability to communicate facts within the required area of knowledge and expertise. Standard operating procedures are important aspects of this role and as such, it will require an individual who is persistent, organised, structured, self-controlled and kind. The person fulfilling this role should be consistent in approach, analytical, sensitive, precise, logical, systematic and compliant. The environment, wherever possible should be free of confrontation and the person occupying the role should be non-aggressive by nature.