Home Office
IIT Proc400c IE Business Analyst
4 Incomplete applications
4 SME, 0 large
38 Completed applications
37 SME, 1 large
Important dates
- Published
- Wednesday 6 March 2019
- Deadline for asking questions
- Friday 8 March 2019 at 11:59pm GMT
- Closing date for applications
- Wednesday 13 March 2019 at 11:59pm GMT
Overview
- Specialist role
- Business analyst
- Summary of the work
- 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 and provide coaching, mentoring and guidance to existing civil servants, assisting the organisation in developing business analysis capability in-house.
- Latest start date
- Monday 1 April 2019
- Expected contract length
- 1 Year
- Location
- London
- Organisation the work is for
- Home Office
- Maximum day rate
- Up to £550 plus VAT
About the work
- Early market engagement
- N/A
- 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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We are currently working on a large scale business transformation programme within a key department in the Home Office. The Business Analysts will be required to develop a deep understanding of the current organisational landscape and identify transformation opportunities aligned to our architectural business motivation and provide coaching, mentoring and guidance to existing civil servants, assisting the organisation in developing business analysis capability in-house.
This role will be located in Croydon, and has been identified as being outside of IR35.
Work setup
- Address where the work will take place
- Lunar House, 40 Wellesley Road, Croydon, CR9 2BY. 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 level.
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 evaluate information and present in such a way that is easily understood by the target audience, including through written and oral communication.
- 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
- 8
- 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%
Questions asked by suppliers
- 1. Whats it the IR35 status?
- This role is outside of IR35
- 2. Can the authority confirm if an incumbent is currently in this role, and if they will be invited to re-apply via DOS?
- There are incumbents who are likely to re-apply if they or their supplier are interested - however I just want to make clear that we’ll only be selecting candidates who we think are the right fit for the roles advertised, regardless of whether they are incumbent or not.
- 3. Good morning, we have a candidate who is based in Manchester, could they work from your Salford office?
- Location of the candidate does not form part of the evaluation. The Home Office makes use of smarter working, and working from home forms part of smarter working. Any agreement to smarter working practices, are still at the discretion of the Department and business needs
- 4. Please can you confirm whether this role is within IR35?
- This role is outside of IR35
- 5. On the essential points, one of the points is repeated. During application should I leave the repeated box blank or repeat the answer?
- If essential criteria is repeated, then please we would not score the repeat, so please leave blank
- 6. Is there scope to work flexibly for some (or all) of the assignment? If so, could you please provide details – e.g. would home working be an option?
- The Home Office makes use of smarter working, and working from home forms part of smarter working. Any agreement to smarter working practices, are still at the discretion of the Department and business needs
- 7. Will the Home Office sponsor SC clearance for candidates that do not hold existing clearance but are willing to undergo clearance?
- Security Clearance cannot be considered as part of the evaluation. If a candidate does not have security clearance, and is successful, they will need to go through the Security clearance process before starting
- 8. Please can you provide some additional information regarding timescales, specifically when do you anticipate that shortlisting will take place, when do you plan for interviews to be held and when are you looking to award contracts?
- We are looking for successful candidates to be in post by the 1st April 2019. Shortlisting and interviewing wilis likely to take place within 2 weeks of the closure of the advert. The start date will be reviewed in light of the need to get candidates security cleared, and existing notice periods.
- 9. Is there current incumbents in these roles?
- There are incumbents who are likely to re-apply if they or their supplier are interested - however I just want to make clear that we’ll only be selecting candidates who we think are the right fit for the roles advertised, regardless of whether they are incumbent or not.