Public Safety Assessment Center Consultant

About the Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL)

The Workforce Intelligence Lab (WIL) delivers applied research and public-program support for cities, counties, school systems, special districts, utilities, and related agencies. Our work spans public-safety workforce systems, emergency management and continuity planning, housing and community development, grant administration technical assistance, research and program evaluation, and applied field operations support.

Learn more: https://wilinstitute.org

We engage experienced practitioners for both full-time employment and project-based contract roles, as applicable to the award and staffing model. Engagements are remote-first with travel as required for partner and field sites. We build ready teams for live grant and sponsored-research pursuits.

This opportunity is contingent upon grant or sponsored-project award and final staffing approval. Permission will be requested before including a candidate's name or resume in a proposal or funding package.

WIL is seeking a Public Safety Assessment Center Consultant to design fair, job-relevant promotional assessment centers for police and fire departments, including exercise development, assessor preparation, scoring, and defensible results reporting.

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 WIL grant and sponsored-research packages when permissioned

Requirements

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
Open to full-time employment or project-based contract engagement; remote-first with travel as partner and field 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 environmentsRequired

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
Open to full-time employment or project-based contract engagement; remote-first with travel as partner and field 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