Defence Business Services (DBS) - DIT Lead Business Engagement and Analyst

at  Ministry of Defence

JOB DESCRIPTION

As the Business Analysis, Change & Engagement Team Leader you will be responsible for the planning and delivery of all business analysis, requirement elicitation; business change and change co-ord activities required to support the Finance & Commercial Change and Infrastructure Programmes. In addition to leading the team, you will be a business change practitioner working on complex changes across a number of products and services.
The successful candidate will be responsible for:

1. Planning and delivering business analysis activities required to support a defined portfolio of change across several service lines:

• Leading engagement with senior stakeholders to understand, identify and analyse user and business needs.
• Supporting development of robust business cases by helping to identify and analyse potential benefits, options for achieving those benefits and associated business risks.
• Ensuring business and stakeholder requirements are understood through common requirement elicitation techniques.
• Understanding, mapping and documenting complex business processes and services.
• Assessing the impact of changes on the DBS organisation, people and processes.
• Working with Solution Architects to identify and select appropriate technical solutions based on requirements. Ensuring solutions are fit for purpose and aligned with service vision and business strategy.
• Working within project teams to support delivery throughout planning, implementation and testing, ensuring business readiness criteria are met.

1. Management and Coordination of all Change Requests:

• Ensuring effective operation of the agreed change process.
• Governing the prioritisation of changes.
• Measuring and monitoring performance against defined Key Performance Indicators and working with Functional Leads to evolve these.

1. Contributing to a culture of continuous improvement for ways of working:

• Working collaboratively with colleagues across DBS, Operational Finance and Defence Commercial to achieve common goals.
• Promoting and ensuring the use of appropriate techniques, methodologies and tools.
• Driving the analysis of information and processes to create recommendationsfor service improvements.
• Leading in the investigation of business challenges, problems and opportunities, considering all perspectives and making recommendations for resolutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• DDaT - Business Analysis
• DDaT Stakeholder relationship management (business analysis)

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £59,690, Ministry of Defence contributes £17,292 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• An environment with flexible working options Monday-Friday
• 25 days paid annual leave rising (1 day per year) to 30 days upon completion of 5 years’ service (pro rata). In addition to 8 public holidays per year, you will also receive leave for HM The Sovereign’s birthday
• Hybrid working where role permits
• An opportunity to be considered for Reward and Recognition - £250-£5000 per year
• Family-friendly policies including - parental leave and adoption leave
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• Professional and personal development of skills
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• Minimum of 15 days special leave in a rolling 12 month period for volunteer reserve commitments
• Special paid leave to volunteer up to 6 days per year
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%

EXPERIENCE:

• CV
• Personal Statement - In no more than 750 words please include details of previous experience and how you meet the requirements for the role along with knowledge and experience of military service and associated veteran issues.
  At interview you will be assessed against the following:

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Business Management and Improvement