Senior Behavioral Scientist
The Focus Group
- R Undisclosed
- Permanent Senior position
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Randburg
- Posted 04 Apr 2025 by The Focus Group
- Expires in 13 days
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Job 2585792
About the position
Job Purpose
Support the Behavioral Economics (BE) unit within the organization Retail and Business Banking to apply behavioral science to the design and execution of better money management solutions for clients across the bank. The senior behavioral scientist will be responsible for undertaking research, designing behavioral interventions, facilitating trainings, and undertaking business experiments to measure the impact of proposed solutions on client behaviors.
Job Responsibilities
- Work with business units to define target behaviors
- Scope advisory projects and develop workplans
- Conduct literature reviews to contextualize target behaviors and proposed behavioral interventions
- Guide data exploration to contextualize and quantify target behaviors
- Undertake qualitative research to effectively diagnose the context and psychological barriers to target behavior
- Effectively package and communicate the findings of primary and secondary research to business units
- Design and proposed behavioral interventions
- Support business units to test behavioral interventions (RCTs or A/B tests)
- Provide training to business units on behavioral insights relevant to their business units
- Support the effective knowledge management and curation of behavioral science research through brown bag session
- Establish relationships with clients through constant
- Assist in positioning the BE Unit as valued business partner through proactive engagement and networking with internal and external stakeholders
- Monitor performance by aligning own contribution to delivery of departmental plan against expected outcomes
- Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction
- Resolve work obstacles by managing on a case-by-case basis and early escalation where required
Essential Qualification
- Grade 12 / Matric / National Senior Certificate
- Honors Degree in economics, psychology, or social sciences
Minimum Experience Level
- More than 5 years’ experience consulting in financial services or working in a financial institution
- Demonstrated experience applying behavioral science within large corporates
- Ability to produce quality work under pressurized circumstances
Type of Exposure
- Conducting root cause analysis using a behavioral lens
- Developing business plans
- Challenging the status quo with a view to improving the environment or people's understanding
- Analysing situations or data that require an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors
- Drafting reports (mostly PPT)
- Influencing stakeholders to obtain buy-in for concepts and ideas
- Sharing information in different ways to increase stakeholders understanding
- Brainstorming ways of improving a product or
- Conducting a needs analysis
Desired Skills:
- Consulting
- Financial Services
- Psychology
- Relationship Building
- Stakeholder Management
The Focus Group
About the agency
THE FOCUS GROUP was formed in 1989 and has offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. We are a full service Human Resource Consulting Company, encompassing Black Empowerment joint venture partner Focus Kamoso, and offering a comprehensive range of integrated recruitment, assessment, employee relations, training and development, HR, employee benefit and payroll management services to a wide range of South African, African and international business organisations.
Our commitment is to enter into a partnership with you, the Client, which adds value to your business and profit to your bottom line, by tailoring solutions that assist you to
• Source, assess and select the best possible human resources.
• Design and implement competency based training programmes, which ensure that your employees are capable of delivering the service excellence that your clients demand, and the competitive edge which you seek to maintain.
• Create a business environment in which you manage change to your advantage and an organisational climate that allows your team to perform to its maximum potential.
• Design employee benefit and remuneration structures which ensure that your people take ownership of your business and which protect you against losing your most valuable resource to your competition.
• Implement an employee relations framework that promotes workplace harmony and minimises the occurrence of disruptive legal disputes.
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