Practice Lead – Assessments, Certification and Client Implementation

Organisation: LeaderNovo Learning Academy Private Limited

Employment Type: Full-time

Reporting To: Founder / Business Head

Location: Hybrid, with travel for client engagements, pilots and certification programmes as required

About LeaderNovo

LeaderNovo develops psychometric assessments, coaching and people-development solutions for organizations. Its assessment portfolio includes personality, behavioural, cognitive, competency and role-fit tools supported by technology-enabled reporting and interpretation.

Several products have reached an advanced stage of development. The present priority is to strengthen their application through customer pilots, practitioner feedback, validation, certification and successful implementation.

LeaderNovo works with a small, professionally qualified team in an workplace that values thoughtful work, open discussion, scientific integrity and practical application.

Role Purpose

- The Practice Lead will head the client-facing and implementation side of LeaderNovo’s assessment practice.
- The person will be responsible for taking assessment products into real organisational settings, leading pilots, facilitating practitioner-certification programmes, supporting clients in interpretation and application, and guiding the internal psychology team.
- This is not primarily a test-development or academic-research position. It is an applied role requiring a strong combination of assessment knowledge, client handling, facilitation, consulting and implementation capability.

Key Responsibilities

1. Client Consulting and Solutioning

- Understand client requirements relating to hiring, promotion, leadership development, role fit, coaching, succession and talent development.
- Help clients select appropriate assessments and define suitable assessment processes.
- Participate in client meetings, demonstrations, proposals and solution presentations.
- Explain assessment methodology, reports, limitations and appropriate applications in clear business language.
- Respond confidently and responsibly to questions raised by HR leaders, participants, coaches and senior management.
- Ensure that assessments are not positioned or used beyond their scientifically supported purpose.

1. Assessment Pilots and Implementation

- Design and lead structured client pilots for LeaderNovo’s assessment products.
- Define pilot objectives, participant groups, implementation approach, success criteria and feedback mechanisms.
- Coordinate with clients, internal psychologists, product teams and technology partners during implementation.
- Conduct assessment debriefs, group interpretation sessions and stakeholder reviews.
- Capture implementation learnings and convert them into recommendations for product, report and process improvement.
- Prepare pilot summaries, implementation reports and case studies where appropriate.

1. Practitioner-Certification Programme





- Lead the design and delivery of LeaderNovo’s practitioner-certification programmes.
- Facilitate sessions on assessment concepts, interpretation, application, ethics and client use cases.
- Review and refine certification content prepared by the internal psychology team.
- Develop exercises, case studies, interpretation practice, assignments and participant-evaluation methods.
- Assess whether participants have achieved the required level of competence before certification.
- Create a credible and engaging learning experience for coaches, trainers, HR professionals and L&D; practitioners.
- Build and support a community of certified LeaderNovo practitioners.

1. Assessment Interpretation and Quality

- Review assessment reports and complex participant profiles.
- Guide the team in handling contradictory indicators, unusual response patterns and difficult interpretation cases.
- Establish standards for report interpretation, feedback conversations and client communication.
- Ensure that interpretation remains evidence-based and does not become deterministic or exaggerated.
- Support the preparation of interpretation guides, FAQs, manuals and practitioner resources.
- Escalate complex psychometric or validation issues to the Scientific and Technical Adviser.

1. Team Guidance and Capability Building

- Guide and mentor LeaderNovo’s psychology associates.
- Review their work relating to assessment content, reports, manuals, research, pilots and certification material.
- Help them develop stronger skills in applied interpretation, client communication and assessment implementation.
- Allocate work according to individual competence and development requirements.
- Establish review and quality-control processes without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Encourage professional discipline, curiosity and responsible judgement.

1. Practice Development

- Help define the positioning and practical use cases of LeaderNovo’s assessment portfolio.
- Identify gaps emerging from customer applications and practitioner feedback.
- Contribute to brochures, proposals, technical notes, articles, webinars and client-education material.
- Support sales teams with assessment-related knowledge, demonstrations and client conversations.
- Develop relationships with coaches, HR professionals, facilitators and assessment practitioners.
- Work with the Product Lead to translate client feedback into product priorities.

Key Performance Areas Success in the role will be assessed through:
- Quality and completion of client pilots.
- Client confidence and satisfaction during assessment implementation.




- Successful launch and delivery of certification programmes.
- Quality of participant learning and certification outcomes.
- Improvement in the applied capability of the internal psychology team.
- Timely resolution of report-interpretation and implementation issues.
- Quality of recommendations made to improve products and reports.
- Responsible and scientifically appropriate use of assessments.
- Contribution to repeat business, practitioner adoption and product credibility.

Qualifications and ExperienceEssential
- Master’s degree in Industrial Psychology, Organisational Psychology, Applied Psychology, Psychological Measurement or a related field.
- Approximately 6–10 years of relevant experience in assessments, talent management, leadership development or organisational consulting.
- Experience in conducting a ssessment debriefs and interpreting psychometric reports.
- Experience in handling corporate clients and senior HR stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience in facilitation, certification, assessor training or practitioner development.
- Experience in planning or implementing assessment projects and pilots.
- Sound understanding of reliability, validity, norms, standard error, ethical use and interpretation limitations.
- Strong written and spoken communication skills.
- Willingness to travel for client programmes when required.

Preferred
- Doctorate in a relevant area, provided the candidate also has strong applied and facilitation experience.
- Certification in recognised assessment tools or occupational testing.
- Experience in assessment centres, development centres or leadership-assessment programmes.
- Experience in preparing technical manuals, interpretation guides or validation reports.
- Familiarity with technology-enabled or AI-supported assessment platforms.

Personal Attributes The role will suit someone who:
- Enjoys working with clients and practitioners.
- Can combine scientific caution with practical business application.
- Is comfortable facilitating experienced professional audiences.
- Can explain technical concepts without unnecessary jargon.
- Is willing to challenge inappropriate assessment use.
- Has the patience and interest to mentor younger psychologists.
- Works well in a small team where roles require ownership and collaboration.
- Is comfortable building systems and practices rather than inheriting a fully established structure.

Working Environment LeaderNovo offers a professional and collaborative working environment with direct access to senior leadership. The role provides meaningful ownership, opportunities to shape an emerging assessment practice and regular exposure to clients, products and practitioners.

The organisation values substance over hierarchy, open discussion over formality and responsible experimentation over hurried product claims. Work is expected to be disciplined and outcome-oriented, while remaining respectful of personal time and reasonable flexibility.

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