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About The Job
Job summary
This position is based nationally
Job Description
Senior Business Analyst
Location: National*
Closing Date: 23rd July
Interviews: W/C 12th August (subject to change)
Grade: G7
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary: National: £54358 - £61585 (which may include an allowance of up to £2517). London: £58847 - £66670 (which may include an allowance of up to £4828).
Working pattern: Full-time, part-time, flexible working, job share.
Contract Type: Permanent.
Vacancy number: 88696
We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Senior Business Analyst here at Justice Digital , to be part of our warm and collaborative Technical Services Delivery team.
This role aligns against Senior Business Analyst from the Government Digital and Data Framework.
We’re looking for talented and tenacious Senior Business Analysts to join our team, to support us in creating world-class services in the justice system. We use a mixture of both agile software development and waterfall approaches, to make meaningful improvements to public services, that live up to the unique challenges of MOJ's responsibility to society.
Senior Business Analysts:
Make sure outcomes are aligned with service vision and business strategy, by joining up the dots across multiple delivery teams, while advocating a "just enough" approach to iterative analysis over the perfect artefact. Senior BAs challenge constructively and act as a critical friend to achieve solutions that are fit for purpose, collaborating and leading effective communication with stakeholders to support design, build and delivery to meet business needs.
A Senior Business Analyst has a good understanding of strategic arenas and leads large or complex projects. Passionate about business analysis, they contribute to the development of best practice and lead activities for their community of practice. They have excellent interpersonal skills, and are experienced in working with a diverse range of stakeholders, who may be vulnerable or working in challenging environments.
They have experience as a coach of others and are able to support peers and less experienced colleagues to develop their knowledge, confidence and skills.
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities:
Apply and promote business analysis in a functional area or service
Work with stakeholders to understand their perspectives, needs, processes, and constraints in order to facilitate effective and efficient business process change
Understand the business processes and activities that impact and that are impacted by the product or service whilst developing an understanding of how the product or service aligns with the wider strategy
Own analysis and contribute to the definition of precise problems for investigation
Collaborate with service teams to formulate hypotheses to test in service design phases
Contribute to agile methodologies across functions, setting standards across the function and ensuring these standards and methodologies are followed. Have experience of working in Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid delivery approaches, with the confidence to advise on the most appropriate approach and to coach other Business Analysts in their use.
Work with Service Owners and Delivery Managers to ensure requirements are effectively scoped, split and prioritised
Take responsibility for the quality and accuracy of requirements and user stories for the service
Work in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams including business and technical colleagues to develop maps of relevant problem spaces and end to end journeys.
Understand and analyse the business domain by developing models to articulate the data needs
Contribute to the definition of success metrics and support mechanisms for monitoring data through the life cycles of services
Take ownership of reviewing the fit of services into existing business context and the identification of business changes required to support the services
Contribute as an experienced practitioner and mentor within the wider Business Analyst community, taking on line management responsibilities for BAs. Additionally, play a significant role in recruitment & performance assessment activities
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
Business analysis skills:
Extensive experience as a BA with a wide variety of business analysis tools and techniques and can demonstrate how you have applied these
Demonstrable stakeholder management skills and ability to clearly communicate findings and outputs in digestible formats for a range of stakeholders
Experience of conducting in-depth analyses of services and processes, and working with teams to identify and implement opportunities to optimise them
Ability to identify and analyse problems and issues that may affect the successful adoption of digital services
Agile working:
Experience of business analysis within an agile arena
Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
Experience of working with a ‘multidisciplinary team’ (eg different roles across a digital team) and advocating the BA role
Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
Developing Self and others:
Proactive and consistently improving based on business analysis best practice
Experience of leading/owning business analysis, ability to advise on BA practice and coaching junior BAs on what BA tools to use and skills to apply in their role
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy .
Person specification
Benefits
Please refer to attached Job Description
Alongside your salary of £54,358, Ministry of Justice contributes £15,165 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Access to learning and development
A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Annual Leave
Public Holidays
Season Ticket Advance
For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.
Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About the MOJ
Things you need to know
Selection process details
How To Apply
Candidates must submit a CV and statement of suitability (of no more than 750 words) via our applicant website Jobtrain , which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above. Candidates who do not submit both a CV and a separate statement of suitability will not be invited to attend an interview.
In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:
Seeing the Bigger Picture
Communicating and Influencing
Developing Self and Others
A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.
Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.
Candidates invited to attend an interview will also be required to prepare and deliver a presentation at this stage. Details of what candidates will need to prepare will be provided prior to the interviews commencing.
Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on the following criteria will be conducted before the sift -
Extensive experience as a BA with a wide variety of business analysis tools and techniques and can demonstrate how you have applied these.
Experience of leading/owning business analysis, ability to advise on BA practice and coaching junior BAs on what BA tools to use and skills to apply in their role.
Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.
Terms & Conditions
Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact [email protected]
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window) . See our vetting charter (opens in a new window) .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
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)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window) .
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