Public Safety Assessment Center Consultant

What you'll do: Design assessment-center processes aligned to promotional competencies and department-specific job requirements Develop realistic exercises, structured interviews, rating guides, scoring tools, and candidate instructions Coordinate subject-matter input, logistics, assessor training, candidate communications, and assessment-day execution Apply consistent, job-related, and legally defensible evaluation methods and quality controls Analyze results and prepare clear selection documentation and leadership briefings Contribute specialist qualifications and past-performance narrative to Alpha Gov proposals when permissioned Required: Demonstrated experience designing or administering public-safety promotional assessment centers or structured selection systems Knowledge of competency modeling, behavioral assessment, structured interviewing, exercise development, and reliable scoring Strong facilitation, assessor training, documentation, and confidential-results reporting skills Comfortable as a 1099 / project-based collaborator; remote-first with travel as client work requires Nice to have: Experience with police, fire, emergency services, or other municipal public-safety departments Familiarity with industrial-organizational psychology, validation, adverse-impact review, and equitable selection practices Experience supporting civil-service, promotional, or collective-bargaining environments