Assessment Specialist at Capitec Bank

Purpose Statement

• To strategically drive current and future assessment strategies, ensuring the highest standards of execution and alignment with best practices. This role is pivotal in managing key stakeholders, identifying trends, and providing insights that inform and shape organizational strategies, thereby enhancing talent management processes whilst driving employee experience.

What you will be doing:

• Innovatively drive and execute current and future assessment strategies, ensuring top-notch standards while challenging and redefining best practices.
• Provide insightful and transformative assessment feedback and consulting services to inform and enhance talent decisions across the business.
• Implement cutting-edge psychometric assessments and talent measurement methodologies within agreed budgets and timelines, pushing the boundaries of traditional approaches.
• Support HR assessment-related capability development through both formal and informal training, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Plan and coordinate end-to-end project delivery, providing updates and escalating issues as needed, with a focus on unconventional solutions.

Experience

Minimum:

• At least 2 years’ experience in selection and assessment tools/practices with end-to-end recruitment/talent acquisition and development application

Proven experience in:

• The application and interpretation of assessments (ability tests, personality questionnaires)
• Assessment administration, report writing and feedback (not including internship).

Ideal:

• Management of assessment centres (assessment / feedback / development conversations)
• Previous experience in HR consulting, including job descriptions and competency frameworks

Qualifications

Minimum

• Bachelor's Degree in Psychology or Industrial/Organisational Psychology
• Registered psychometrist or registered industrial psychologist

Knowledge

Minimum:

Knowledge of:

• Use of psychometric assessments (ability tests) 
• Use of psychological personality instruments 
• Conducting assessment, feedback, development conversations 
• General HR processes and procedures 
• Relevant legislation (i.e. Labour Relations Act, Employment Equity Act, HPCSA)
• Job description compilation
• Recruitment and Selection processes and techniques, including competency based recruitment