Business analyst

Job Title Business analyst

Sector Public Sector

Opportunity attribute name Opportunity attribute value

Important Dates

Published Wednesday 20 March 2019

Deadline for asking questions Friday 22 March 2019 at 11:59pm GMT

Closing Date for applications Wednesday 27 March 2019 at 11:59pm GMT

Overview

Summary of the work

• Product Manager for National Register for Missing Persons

• Facilitation of visits and user workshops used to support the development of requirements

• Working with end-users, technical architects and project managers to further elaborate the requirements and support the development of business capabilities

Latest Start Date Monday 1 April 2019

Expected contract length 6 months with the option to extend up to 25%

Location Bernard Weatherill House, 8 Mint Walk, Croydon, CR0 1EA

Organisation the work is for Home Office

Budget Range £300-400

About the work

Why the work is being done

Problem to be solved

1. Act as Product Manager and Business Analyst for the NLEDP Missing Persons Register capability (NRMP) and support other PMs. Includes owning of the elaboration of requirements through an Alpha pack covering User Stories, Business Rules, and Business Service definitions. Responsible for gaining necessary programme and stakeholders approvals;

2. Engage with policing, at both NPCC and practitioner level, NCA business leads and Home Office Safeguarding and Policy Units to ensure business buy-in to the NRMP;

3. Maintain the NLEDP 'front door' of high level requirements supporting the lead Business Architect.

4. Assist the innovation work stream through scoping/discovery and prioritisation

Who the users are and what they need to do

Early market engagement

Any work that's already been done

Existing team Internal Business Design Team, wider programme and business stakeholders

Current phase

Work setup

Address where the work will take place Bernard Weatherill House, 8 Mint Walk, Croydon, CR0 1EA

Work arrangements Part time Office Hours with some travel for engagement meetings in the UK. T&S will not be payable for travel to sites within the M25. Travel outside of the M25 will be subject to HO T&S policy .

Part-time 3 days a week.

Security clearance SC level clearance is required.

Additional information

Additional terms and conditions

Skills and Experience

• Buyers will use the essential and nice-to-have skills and experience to help them evaluate suppliers' technical competence.

• Essential skills and experience Experience of operational policing, policing public protection systems and data

• Experience in supporting business and technical architects, to plan the integration of end-to-end services in order to meet end-user demands

• Experience of working on large, complex IT-enabled change programmes

• Strong collaborative / team-working skills and ability to communicate with stakeholders at all levels

• Valid SC clearance.

• Nice-to-have skills and experience Strong understanding of the Government Digital Service's Design Principles and Digital Service Standard

• Experience in developing target operating models, value stream mapping and LEAN process improvement

• A qualification in business analysis, such as the BCS Diploma in Business Analysis, or Degree in related software development.

• Experience of working closely with user researchers to refine the product backlog based on research feedback

• How suppliers will be evaluated

• How many suppliers to evaluate 3

• Proposal criteria

• Cultural fit criteria Demonstrate commitment to excellence and improvement, for example through seeking actionable feedback, setting targets etc

• Show a commitment to ensuring a team understands the user need over simply delivering work

• Transparent and collaborative when making decisions and recommendations.

• Have a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes

• Demonstrate responsibility (for example, act like a leader, serve your team, provide solutions to problems, engage in external/internal environments, seek the best for the organisation beyond your team)

• Demonstrate simplicity (for example, take simple steps to goals, do less but better, mitigate failures, talk straight with respect)

• Demonstrate excellence (for example, seek actionable feedback, set challenging targets, know users, deliver cost effective high level customer satisfaction)

• Demonstrate enthusiasm (for example, bring whole self to work, celebrate success, share passion and energy with others, optimistic)

• Demonstrate nurture by supporting and helping to develop less experience staff

• Payment approach

• Assessment methods Work history

• Evaluation weighting Technical competence - 60%

• Cultural fit - 10%

• Price - 30%

• Job type: Contract Reference: 19-00759