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Grade: SEO
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: National: £39868 - £43535 (which may include an allowance of up to £2057) London: £45824 - £50039 (which may include an allowance of up to £2251)
Working pattern: full-time, part-time, flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy number: 85924
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
Were recruiting for Business Analysts here at Justice Digital, to be part of our exciting digital transformation.
This role aligns against the Business Analyst role, from the Government Digital and Data Framework
This is a great opportunity to join our warm and collaborative multidisciplinary agile teams and become part of our established business analyst community, with over 50 members across Justice Digital. You will play an integral role in delivering high quality, user focused solutions and have the opportunity to work across a range of different services, progress your career and make a difference.
A business analyst works within a multi-disciplinary product or service team, either independently or contributing to large scale transformations. At this level, you will:
- Manage stakeholder relationships
- Have a good understanding of your work area
- Contribute to the business analysis community by sharing best practice and mentoring others
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities:
- Undertake analysis to understand how a business area works, considering the people, organisation, processes, information, data and technology
- Identify and elaborate user and business needs to enable effective design, development and business change
- Ensure new products and services meet business and user needs, and are aligned with organisational goals
- Understand any business and policy constraints that need to be considered, and assess the implications
- Collaborate on prioritisation to agree minimum viable product and sprint features
- Identify areas for improvement, explore feasible options, analyse the effects of change and define success measures
- Take ownership for improving your own knowledge of business analysis and agile principles, methods and tools and play an active role within the BA community in sharing knowledge and supporting other members
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Benefits
- 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
- A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
- Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
- Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
- 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
- Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
- Wellbeing support including access to the Calm
- Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Carers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and SPIRIT
- Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
- Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care
- 5 days volunteering paid
- Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for
- Some offices may have a subsidised onsite
Person Specification
Essential
- Business analysis. You can apply structured approaches to identify, investigate, analyse and communicate complex business problems and opportunities, within a defined project. You can analyse business goals, objectives, functions and processes, using relevant information and data to support the definition of requirements. You can conduct options analysis, assess feasibility and operational impact, quantify potential business benefits and contribute to business case development. You can help to ensure proposed solutions meet business and user You can work with limited direction to complete tasks and defined outputs linked to the project.(Skill level: working)
- Requirements definition and management. You can identify, analyse, challenge and validate business and user requirements. You can work under limited supervision to co-ordinate and review the prioritisation of You can use appropriate requirements management life cycle methods to complete tasks and outputs related to the project. (Skill level: working)
- Stakeholder relationship management (business analysis). You can identify, analyse, manage and monitor relationships with and between internal and external stakeholders. You can work under limited supervision to communicate with stakeholders clearly and regularly, clarifying mutual needs and commitments through consultation and consideration of impacts while focusing on user and business needs. (Skill level: working)
- Business modelling. You can model various elements of the business with limited You can understand the effect of potential changes and how business processes, systems, structures, data and roles and responsibilities interact with one another. (Skill level: working)
- Business process improvement. You can work with limited direction to identify opportunities to improve business performance within a defined project. You can lead the analysis, identification, design, prioritisation and implementation of process and business changes to improve business operations and You can support the implementation of proposed business improvements.(Skill level: working)
- Experience of collaborative working. You can work effectively and collaboratively alongside colleagues in a multidisciplinary team. You are able to empathise and be considerate of colleagues' needs while at the same time understand and be clear on your own needs to complete a task. (Skill level: working)
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance
We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate on the basis of culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.
Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.
