Senior Behavioural Scientist

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Praesignis (Pty) Ltd Full time

**Job Purpose**

**Responsibilities**:

- Work with business units to define target behaviours.
- Scope advisory projects and develop workplans.
- Conduct literature reviews to contextualize target behaviours and proposed behavioural interventions.
- Guide data exploration to contextualize and quantify target behaviours.
- Undertake qualitative research to effectively diagnose the context and psychological barriers to target behaviour.
- Effectively package and communicate the findings of primary and secondary research to business units.
- Design and proposed behavioural interventions.
- Support business units to test behavioural interventions (RCTs or A/B tests).
- Provide training to business units on behavioural insights relevant to their business units.
- Support the effective knowledge management and curation of behavioural science research through brown bag session.
- Establish relationships with clients through constant engagement.
- 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.

**Requirements**:

- Honours Degree in Economics, Psychology, or Social Sciences
- More than 5 years experience consulting in financial services or working in a financial institution
- Ability to produce quality work under pressurised circumstances

**Qualification and Skills Must haves**:

- Grade 12 / Matric / National Senior Certificate
- Honours 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
- Ability to produce quality work under pressurized circumstances

**Type of Exposure**:

- Conducting root cause analysis using a behavioural lens
- Developing business plans
- Challenging the status quo with a view to improving the environment or People's understanding
- Analyzing 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 situation
- Conducting a needs analysis


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