Human Assessment Specialist Fellowship

Love Justice International; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Love Justice International (LJI) seeks a Human Assessment Specialist to advance and refine proprietary assessments used for hiring and staff development. You will help design evolving evaluation tools, gather data from field staff, and contribute to data-driven decisions that maximize mission impact.

You will collaborate with our Data Science team to prepare data for modeling and support the implementation of predictive tools across programs, ensuring assessments remain robust and fair.

Qualifications

• Must have mature Christian faith and alignment with our values.
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience with data analysis and predictive modeling is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Advance methodologies for building assessments and test them with stakeholders.
• Gather new data from staff and other sources to improve assessments.
• Prepare data for predictive modeling by the Data Science team.

Skills

Christian faith alignment

Critical thinking

Data analysis

Google Suite

Spreadsheet analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Google Sheets

Job description

Job Details

Job Location: South Africa. Please apply on our website: www.lovejusticecareers.com

About Us

Love Justice International (LJI) is a Christian nonprofit driven by a singular mission: to share the love of Jesus Christ by fighting the world’s greatest injustices. We pursue this calling through two primary efforts—our expanding anti-human trafficking work and the care of orphaned and abandoned children.

We are looking for faithful, compassionate, and mission-driven problem-solvers—people who think deeply about how to fight injustice and share Christ’s love in a broken world. This isn’t just a job; it’s a calling. If you’re searching for an easy, comfortable career, there are plenty of other options. But if you’re drawn to work that demands sacrifice, boldness, and faith, we invite you to apply and explore how you can be part of this mission.

What We Offer

Opportunities to truly change lives are exceptionally rare—but at LJI, that is exactly the kind of impact you can have. Although we’re a nonprofit, we operate as an “Impact Engineering” organization, focused solely on maximizing real-world outcomes. By combining scientific and business principles with field-led, locally informed insights, we intercept potential trafficking victims for under $112 each, creating a ripple effect that prevents several more individuals from enslavement. This remarkable efficiency underscores the profound, far-reaching impact your work can have on countless lives.

Program and Position Overview

LJI combats human trafficking through transit monitoring—intercepting potential victims at key transportation hubs, where traffickers and victims are most visible. Because trafficking is already underway at these points, our teams can gather vital information to assist law enforcement in arresting traffickers and disrupting trafficking networks. To date, LJI has intercepted over 100,000 individuals, resulting in more than 2,000 arrests.

LJI prioritizes a rigorous, data-driven approach to maximize impact and minimize harm. We use careful data collection and analysis to measure our effectiveness, continually refining and improving our anti-trafficking interventions. Adhering to the principle of fail fast and often, we test innovative ideas quickly, discard what doesn’t work, and scale interventions proven to produce the greatest measurable good per dollar spent. This disciplined, iterative approach helps us remain accountable to our mission, ensuring that every action we take truly benefits those we serve.

LJI’s anti-human trafficking strategy and its orphan care work depend greatly on finding the right people in the places we operate. Given this, we’ve made it our mission to specialize in finding the right people. In fact, our core competency is searching out the people, places, and tools to maximize mission impact. To do this, we’ve developed (and have ideas to develop) a number of human assessments using predictive modeling, including:

• Mindset, Work Beliefs, and Moral Reasoning assessments used for hiring LJI Staff
• Specific assessments for national office staff, teachers, parents, monitors, and fundraisers

Our goal is to form a team that is constantly working to improve our assessments and particularly to make them more predictive. We use assessments within our application and hiring process for LJI and we’d like to apply some of the lessons we’ve learned there to more of our program work. For example, an assessment to help us select the best transit monitors to intercept potential victims of trafficking or an assessment to select the best parents for one of our Family Homes caring for orphaned and abandoned children.

Key Responsibilities

The primary duty of the Human Assessment Specialist is to carry forward and further develop the methodologies developed by LJI for building these assessments, and use it to continually improve them, including:

• With stakeholders, coming up with potential evolutions of the assessments and testing them
• Regularly gathering new data from Love Justice staff and other sources, including coming up with unique ways to get data to make these assessments more robust
• Collecting and helping to prepare data from these assessments for predictive modeling (to be done by our Data Science team)
• Helping to build tools to use these assessments and the predictive models generated by them for hiring and developing staff
• Build and maintain a team of financial supporters through regular communication and updates

Christian Culture

• Our primary identity is in Christ
• We believe God is sovereign over injustice
• We are made, called, and led by Christ
• We commit to connect with Jesus
• Prayer should be central to our work
• Our conduct is our testimony

Qualifications

• Mission & Faith Alignment
  • Mature Christian faith and agreement with our Global Value to Abide in Christ
  • Knowledge, understanding, and agreement with how the Christian Gospel ministers to the least of these (Matthew 25:40) and guides us in our mission
  • Agreement with our Core Value Be the Kingdom (in mission execution and personal conduct)
  • Acknowledgment of our Statement of Faith
  • Passion for justice and advocacy on behalf of vulnerable populations
• Experience & Skills
  • Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a field relevant to position (human assessments, school or industrial psychology, etc.); a master’s degree or higher preferred
  • Significant experience in working with or developing human assessment tools
  • Critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
  • Strong work ethic, self-motivation, and willingness to adapt to changing and challenging circumstances
  • Proficiency with Google Suite and particularly with Google Sheets
  • Familiarity with working with complex spreadsheets

Application Process

We will continue to invite applications for this position until a new Human Assessment Specialist has been hired. Candidates will submit a letter of interest and CV when they submit their application here. Nominations, inquiries, and questions concerning this search may be directed to [e-mail]. Visit the LJI careers page, https://www.lovejustice.ngo/careers, to learn more about our mission, explore FAQs, and see how you can be part of our work.

Please allow us 1-2 weeks to process your application. Thank you for your interest!