Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Location: National*

Closing Date: 24^th May

Interviews: Expected w/c 16^th June

Grade: SEO

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary:

National: £41,463 - £45,276 (which may include an allowance of up to £462)

London: £47,657 - £52,040 (which may include an allowance of up to £418)

Working pattern: Full time, Part time, Job share, flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 5865

*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

Job summary:

We’re recruiting for Business Analysts here at Justice Digital, to be part of our exciting digital transformation.

This role aligns against the Business Analyst role from the Government Digital and Data Framework.

This is a great opportunity to join our warm and collaborative multidisciplinary agile teams and become part of our established business analyst community, with over 100 members across Justice Digital. You will play an integral role in delivering high quality, user focused solutions, working in a dynamic organisation that is exciting and innovative. At Justice Digital, you will have the opportunity to work across a range of different services, progress your career and make a difference.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team, please read on and apply!

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:

As a business analyst in Justice Digital, you’ll work within a multi-disciplinary product or service team, either independently or contributing to large scale transformations.

At this level, you will:

• Undertake analysis to understand how a business area works, considering the people, organisation, processes, information, data and technology
• Identify and elaborate user and business needs to enable effective design, development and business change
• Ensure new products and services meet business and user needs, and are aligned with organisational goals
• Understand any business and policy constraints that need to be considered, and assess the implications
• Collaborate on prioritisation to agree minimum viable product and sprint features
• Identify areas for improvement, explore feasible options, analyse the effects of change and define success measures
• Manage stakeholder relationships and have a good understanding of your work area
• Contribute to the business analysis community including sharing best practice and mentoring others
• Take ownership for improving your own knowledge of business analysis and agile principles, methods and tools and play an active role within the BA community in sharing knowledge and supporting other members

Benefits

• 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
• A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms
• Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow
• Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates)
• 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
• Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
• Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
• Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
• 5 days volunteering paid leave.
• Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
• Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

Person Specification

We are interested in people who:

• Have experience of delivering business analysis as part of a digital team in an agile environment
• Can provide business analysis expertise to define and validate digital solutions, products and services, ensuring they are aligned to business goals
• Have strong communication skills that enable you to influence stakeholders, colleagues and engage with senior leaders
• Are a team player and enjoy working collaboratively with other professions as well as being able to work independently to deliver high end solutions
• Have an analytical mindset, capable of capturing, breaking down and simplifying information
• Have the ability to pivot and switch context quickly as priorities change
• Work collaboratively in a digital team to deliver positive outcomes
• Define and manage requirements effectively in an agile environment
• Use business analysis skills to successfully solve a problem

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS 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.

How to Apply

Candidates must submit a CV along with a Statement of Suitability of no more than 1200 words total. Failure to provide both documents will result in a rejection of your application.

The Statement of Suitability should outline your experience and skill, giving clear examples of work undertaken. It should address the following three areas, using a separate paragraph for each (*Statement of suitability's which have not adhered to the application process, of providing examples to the 4 points below, will be rejected at sift)

• experience of delivering business analysis as part of a digital team in an agile environment (300 words)
• working collaboratively in a digital team to deliver positive outcomes (300 words)
• defining and managing requirements effectively in an agile environment (300 words)
• using business analysis skills to successfully solve a problem (300 words)

*Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on your ‘experience of delivering business analysis as part of a digital team in an agile environment’ will be conducted prior to the sift.

Whilst we value the use of AI technology to enhance our daily work, we also value the personal touch and urge applicants to write statements without the use of AI to emphasise their own unique experiences.

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, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

Technical skills

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

• Agile Working (Skill Level: Practitioner)
• Business Analysis (Skill Level: Working)
• Requirements Definition and Management (Skill Level: Working)
• Business Modelling (Skill Level: Working)

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together

Your application will be reviewed against the above by a diverse panel.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference, which will include a short task.

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 recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk