Education Authority (Northern Ireland)
Technical Business Analyst - 4 posts
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PERSON SPECIFICATION
NOTES TO JOB APPLICANTS
You must clearly demonstrate on your application form under each question, how, and to what extent you meet the required criteria. Failure to do so may result in you not being shortlisted.
Shortlisting Process
Applicants are shortlisted based on the essential criteria below:
| Factor | Essential Criteria | Method of Assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Qualifications/Experience | Hold a HNC/HND or higher qualification relating to Business Administration, Management, or IT AND 2 years’ demonstrable experience as a Business Analyst; OR 4 years’ demonstrable experience working as a Business Analyst. | Shortlisting by Application Form |
| Demonstrable experience delivering end-to-end business analysis across a project lifecycle in a digital/IT or service delivery environment. | Shortlisting by Application Form | |
| Demonstrable experience running business process design and configuration workshops. | Shortlisting by Application Form | |
| Demonstrable experience producing clear structured documentation, including writing test scripts, UAT, preparing training materials, and leading training workshops. | Shortlisting by Application Form | |
| Demonstrable experience building and maintaining working relationships with internal and external stakeholders. | Shortlisting by Application Form | |
| Vehicle/Transport | Ownership/availability of a suitable insured vehicle or sufficient proof of alternative transport options enabling programme mobility demands. | Shortlisting by Application Form |
Self-assessment MUST be provided under each criterion with clear evidence of meeting it.
EVALUATION PROCESS
Section 1 – Essential Criteria (Shortlisting Stage)
| Structure | Category | Assessment Stage |
|---|---|---|
| Qualifications/ | Qualifications and Experience, Business Process Workshops, Documentation, Stapkeholder Engagement | Shortlisting by Application Form |
Section 2 – Essential Criteria (Interview Stage)
Knowledge Requirements:
- Demonstrated expertise in capturing an "As Is" analysis (current process state, identifying inefficiencies) and articulating a future "To Be" state. (Critical: Shown during Interview/Presentation)
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*Skills/Abilities (EA’s Game Changing People Model):
- Strong collaborative skills to forge trust-based relationships with internal stakeholders.
- Commitment to "customer-focused" solutions with a proactive risk appetite for change.
- Exceptional oral & written communication for clear stakeholder engagement.
- Multi-tasking effectiveness in fast-changing environments.
- Stakeholder management expertise.
- Attention to detail and consistent high-quality documentation.
- Analytical problem-solving capability to drive strategic impact.
(Critical: Assessed in Interview & Presentation)
Values Alignment
- Demonstrate work behavior reflecting EA’s corporate ethos via actionable examples (see [Values page](http:// وادي.//تونيتي //)).
Notice About Additional Requirements
- Posts may require Enhanced DBS checks for "Regulated Activity" (working with children/young people). Applicants will bear the cost of that disclosure process.
DESIRABLE CRITERIA (Optional Shortlist Preference)
Shortlisting may apply these in prioritized order:
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Experience in large/complex transformations (Cross-departmental, cross-stakeholder work affecting multiple groups).
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Experience with ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning solutions).
(Defined size: relevant to Working Tertiary plus cross-function impact.)
NOTES FROM EDUCATION AUTHORITY
- Prioritises equality and excellence in service across all school settings.
- Safeguards areas like HR, procurement, and multichannel implementations involve screening (DBS checks) for applicants.
- Candidate support: Applicant Guidance | Facilities: Variety of Benefits.
- Invitation to apply is considered a delegated right under Plan´98 section (75), ensuring equal opportunity considerations.
JOB DESCRIPTION: ENABLE TECHNICAL BUSINESS ANALYST
SERVICE AND LOCATION
Department: EnAble Programme
Reports To: Senior Technical Project Manager
ROLE PURPOSE
A Technical Business Analyst nominated to the EnAble Programme management, partnering with Programme Leads to:
- Clarify business requirements and documentation that supports ERP procurement, reporting to stakeholders.
- Lead/best-practise alignment workshops for EnAble stakeholders.
- Streamline ERP project-fit for Education Authority users to future capacity.
Market Analysis & Transformation Scope
The programme replaces Oracle E-Business Suite under the EnAble banner—unified delivery enhancing process efficiency across core areas:
- Finance
- Payroll-Management
- HR
- Procurement
- Integration/Service Enhance/NI-scale transactional support
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JOB RESPONSIBILITIES DETILED
1. Strategy & Requirement Gathering
- Collaborate with stakeholders within the Education Authority to develop process current-state maps ("As Is") and optimize paths (proposed e-innovation).
- Improve NRNP business cases and ERP functional docs standards through consolidation strategies. Emilio: software inter-change on stipulation reporting policies.
2. Team Support & Management Workflows
- Cross-functional delivery on process mapping, SME documentation, discovery, and application of best-practises within budget deadlines time.
- Adapting collaboration due to technical ceiling orbits via burn-down planning by programme cross-brush demands outlines—**AA>
- Project coordinator:
- KPI status alignments (business & risk compliance)
- Escalation actions: Track to document for robust accountability trials.
3. Change Enablement & Process Efficiency
- Identify and report innovative efficiencies congruent with scalable education data dreams.
- Ensure systematic risk assimilation aligned with phase of solution lifetime veil cardiomyopathies—interference escalations flow expert pathomics.
- Review prototype quality gate outcomes for dependencies identifying technical outskirt gaps.
4. Requirements Workshops & Documentation
- Enforce lucid user, functional & technical relations building readiness for UI operational setups—management decent.
- Approach modelling:
- Connect across EA Div(s) directorates. Sophisticated data repertoires (objects/process/analysis).
- Support PMO fostering structured documentation and comprehensive alignments to Stakeholder exit points under programme operations hierarchy.
5. Trust Network
- Tie link locally between stakeholders across key-demonstration/delivery goals. Strengthen records systems tracking personnel idle periods.
- Arbitrate between expertise ownership association gaps while fulfilling national frameworks.
- Uphold EA corporate objective alignment - promoting lesson across company shaping corporate vehicle delivery wrapper.
6. Compliance Audit
- Duty reviewer for darted protocol compliance on django query/github interventions.
- Reflect EA’s detailed reporting obligations via selection of structures ensuring accurate system outcome results activations.
TERMS & CONDITIONS RECOLLECTION NOTES
This role follows poverty-reduction regulatory guides for system uptime equality across educational platforms.
Questions: HA Provision Tribunal Codes 2019/2 [URL](http://honeyprov.de-economics.état//202 bars) will provide assistance as required.
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