Home Office
Business Analyst IE1
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23 Completed applications
21 SME, 2 large
Important dates
- Published
- Tuesday 13 December 2016
- Deadline for asking questions
- Thursday 15 December 2016 at 11:59pm GMT
- Closing date for applications
- Tuesday 20 December 2016 at 11:59pm GMT
Overview
- Specialist role
- Business analyst
- Summary of the work
- We are currently embarking on a large scale business transformation programme within a key department in the Home Office. The Business Analyst will be required to develop a deep understanding of the current organisational landscape and identify transformation opportunities aligned to our architectural business motivation model.
- Latest start date
- 4/1/17
- Expected contract length
- To 31st March 2017 (Potential extensions possible)
- Location
- London
- Organisation the work is for
- Home Office
- Maximum day rate
- £550 plus VAT for an exceptional candidate.
About the work
- Early market engagement
- Who the specialist will work with
- Business Architecture leads, Change portfolio team, Project Managers, Wider transformation programme and business stakeholders
- What the specialist will work on
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Objective:
• Support architecture initiatives and lead on business analysis
activities.
Desired Outputs:
• Lead on requirements capture activity.
• Lead on business process mapping activity (BPMN 2)
• Support work package planning and development (SWOT).
• Support business motivation modelling (VMOST).
• Support business information & data model development.
• Support value stream mapping.
• Support Business capability modelling.
Success Criteria:
• Alignment of analysis activities to the business architecture meta model.
• Alignment of analysis activities to wider programme of work.
• Adherence to agreed standards and principles.
• Delivery to time/quality.
• Knowledge transfer to permanent staff.
Work setup
- Address where the work will take place
- 2 Marsham Street London SW1P 4DF. Travel to other sites may be required.
- Working arrangements
- Full 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
- Security clearance
- SC minimum or ability to be cleared to SC.
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
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- A proven track record in mapping, developing and improving end-to-end processes in a large scale enterprise environment.
- Be able to use and have had experience using common business centric process mapping techniques and languages.
- Be familiar with Business Architecture concepts including Motivational Modelling, Value Stream Mapping and Capability Modelling.
- Be experienced of working in a range of project delivery environments, with targets set and reviewed on a weekly basis.
- Have the people skills to work with senior stakeholders to secure access to interviewees in their working environment.
- Effective workshop set up, facilitation and execution.
- Be able to develop domain expertise quickly.
- Have excellent interpersonal and influencing skills and a positive approach.
- Have ability to think creatively and be able to articulate innovative ideas to solving complex business problems.
- Have ability to evaluate information and present in such a way that is easily understood by the target audience, including through written and oral communication.
- Have ability to own issues and drive them to resolution. Provide direction to inform sound business decisions based on business priority and technical feasibility.
- Have know-how of how to identify and raise project dependencies, whilst working in a wider team with multiple projects in-flight.
- Nice-to-have skills and experience
- Previous experience using Enterprise Modelling tools.
How suppliers will be evaluated
- How many specialists to evaluate
- 3
- Cultural fit criteria
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- Demonstrate excellence (for example, seek actionable feedback, set challenging targets, know users, deliver cost effective high level customer satisfaction).
- Show a commitment to ensuring a team understands the user need over simply delivering work, whilst recognising wider demands and influences on delivery.
- Transparent and collaborative when making decisions and recommendations.
- Have a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes.
- Demonstrate courage (for example, express controversial views, confront reality, make tough decisions, question actions inconsistent with group behaviours, candid about progress/estimates) in an appropriate and professional manner.
- Demonstrate vulnerability (for example, declare uncertainty, fear, recognise mistakes, apologise, and acknowledge weaknesses).
- 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 enthusiasm (for example, bring whole self to work, celebrate success, share passion and energy with others, optimistic, and be positive).
- Assessment methods
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- Work history
- Interview
- Scenario or test
- Evaluation weighting
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Technical competence
60%Cultural fit
20%Price
20%
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