Business Analysts

You will also contribute to the wider business analysis community, sharing best practice and supporting the development of others.

Person specification

Key Qualification, knowledge and experience

• Business analysis qualification, ideally and BCS Diploma.
• Experienced in business analysis, working both collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary agile team and alone.
• Experience of working with the user centred design profession and their methods and techniques.
• Experience of Agile development methodologies, particularly Scrum.
• Experience of working with a backlog of user stories and acceptance criteria using Behaviour Driven Development.
• Experience of waterfall projects, producing High Level, Functional and Non-Functional requirements.
• Knowledge of the GDS development approach / digital standards.
• Awareness of public sector Information Security issues.
• Awareness of public sector finances e.g. Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL).

Skills Requirement

You will have and continue to demonstrate the following skills in line with the government wide Digital Data and Technology expectations for someone in the Business Analyst role.

• Adapting to delivery methodologies: contributing to discussions on the appropriate delivery methodology to use, and adapting your approach based on the delivery methodology of the team.
• Business modelling involves: documenting how your business operates and intends to achieve its goals.
• Business process improvement: creating appropriate artefacts and analysing, modifying and testing existing and new processes to make them more efficient.
• Context, problem and option analysis: holistically investigating the context for a piece of work to define the problem or opportunity, understand root causes, identify high level business and user needs and shape the work to address those needs.
• Defining and managing business needs, user needs and requirements: involves eliciting, analysing and validating and communicating needs effectively through appropriate actionable artefacts.
• Stakeholder relationship management: building trust, managing stakeholder expectations and communications, and remaining focused on user needs.
• Digital and data systems analysis involves structured examination of digital and data technologies and infrastructures to understand them enough to enable effective decision making.
• Testing: ensuring that requirements have been fully met by using appropriate tools and techniques to verify that a product or service works.
• User experience analysis: You can, apply basic techniques to analyse, validate and prioritise user experience needs present findings in an accessible and easy to understand way to support data-informed decision making, based on user research.

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

• Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.
• Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.
• Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.
• Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
• We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Homes England Is Committed To Protecting The Privacy And Security Of Your Personal Data. For Further Information Please Refer To Our Privacy Notice Which Can Be Viewed Here

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Name: Recruitment Team

Email: recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window)