SC Cleared Senior Agile Business Analyst

On behalf of The Home Office, we are looking for a SC Cleared Senior Agile Business Analyst (Inside IR35) for a 6 Month contract based REMOTELY (Occasional travel to Liverpool).

The first duty of Government is to protect the public. Since 1782, the Home Office has led work to keep the country safe from those who seek to do it harm; in doing so, we make a vital contribution to HM Government's plan for a stronger, fairer, outward-looking and united Britain.

The Home Office covers three systems Homeland Security, Public Safety and Borders, and Immigration and Citizenship. These systems work collaboratively to deliver our cross-cutting priorities, whilst providing increasingly efficient and secure services for the public. These are difficult areas that can rapidly change in the global environment we work in - this makes us one of the most exciting and stimulating government departments in which to work.

Description

The Business Optimisation Programme has identified 163 processes to date, with more functional areas still to examine, and these will now need mapping out to help identify the baseline (as is) and support the identification of opportunities. To do this at pace and build momentum in the programme to support delivery of efficiencies, there is a requirement for specialist business analyst support. There is a need to prioritise, create a plan, and agree an approach for completing this activity using agile methodologies and techniques.

Essential skills and experience:
. Advising on the approach to identify, investigate, prioritise and analyse complex problems and opportunities within a large volume of processes across the entire organisation to deliver cost efficiencies, increased productivity and achieve efficiency targets.
. Identify the range of business analysis activities required to undertake a process improvement exercise and create a plan for how all of the processes can be looked at, mapped and analysed.
. Work using a mixture of agile and waterfall techniques and methodologies.
. Leading on the modelling of processes, systems and data at varying levels of detail or complexity. Mapping out the processes to identify the baseline (as is) and support the identification of opportunities.
. Making recommendations to deliver cost efficiencies and increased productivity including quantifying potential benefits.
. Developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, applying communication strategies to build relationships, clarifying needs and commitments through consultation and consideration of consequences while focusing on user and business needs.
. Coaching others working in business analysis across the organisation to develop capability. Building capability in methods and tools, ensuring they are adopted consistently and used effectively.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the Home Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

Armed Forces Covenant

The Home Office guarantees to interview veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".