About The Change

The Change is a boutique consultancy operating at the intersection of innovation, commercial opportunity, and measurable impact. The firm specializes in helping organizations transform complex challenges into practical change by integrating specialist expertise, fresh thinking, and robust commercial strategy. Its work is structured around three core principles: addressing a meaningful environmental, social, or human challenge; leveraging the necessary community and expertise to solve it; and establishing a sustainable business model to foster impact growth.

The Role of Cognitive Psychologist

The Change is seeking a Cognitive Psychologist for a project-based role in Riyadh. This position requires an individual who can apply both scientific rigor and multidisciplinary thinking to specific challenges. The successful candidate will contribute specialist knowledge to help translate evidence into informed decisions and practical outcomes within the scope of the project.

Project Overview

This role involves providing specialist expertise for a project investigating whether changes in indoor environmental conditions can have a measurable effect on cognitive function and performance. The Cognitive Psychologist will be responsible for designing the human-performance element of the study and ensuring that any cognitive effects are assessed using scientifically robust and validated methods.

Key Contributions

• Design the cognitive assessment methodology for the study.
• Identify appropriate validated tests for measuring areas such as attention, concentration, memory, processing speed, and executive function.
• Establish suitable baseline and comparative testing protocols.
• Advise on study duration, testing frequency, and participant requirements.
• Identify and control for factors such as fatigue, learning effects, time of day, and other variables that could influence cognitive results.
• Support the interpretation of cognitive results alongside environmental and indoor air quality data.
• Assess whether observed differences are meaningful and scientifically supported.
• Review the methodology, results, and conclusions relating to cognitive performance.

Candidate Qualifications

The ideal candidate will be an academic, researcher, or experienced practitioner with a background in cognitive psychology or experimental psychology. Essential experience includes designing and conducting studies using validated cognitive assessment methods. Experience researching the relationship between environmental conditions, indoor environments, air quality, and human cognition or performance is particularly valuable for this role.

Contract and Compensation

This is a freelance, project-based contract role. Compensation will be competitive and determined based on the scope of the project. On-site involvement in Riyadh will be required as needed by the project.