Business Analyst Department for Work & Pensions
Reference
108576
Number of vacancies
4
Location
Leeds or Newcastle
Salary
£35,310 — £40,666
Work hours
37
Employment type
Permanent
Job benefits
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• An employer pension contribution of up to 27%
• A generous annual leave allowance, starting @ 25 days and rising to 30 days per year
Closing date
21 April 2021
Job description
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
“The scale here is huge; the ask is often complex and the context unique”
We’re looking to add four Business Analysts to our team. You’ll perform core BA functions on a critical and high profile project, directly related to our ongoing covid-19 response.
The pandemic means that accessible, robust digital products and services have never been more important to our users, or to dedicated DWP colleagues working to support them.
We’re the UK’s largest government department, and we’re taking on a generational transformation of government products, services and ways of working. It is complex, unique challenging and driven by an extraordinary purpose – lifting people out of poverty and helping people into work.
We work across a mixed economy of new, legacy and hybrid systems, so we’ll need you to be adaptable and able to develop and deliver a hybrid approach. Our disciplined digital teams are leveraging cutting edge technology, thinking and user centric design to optimise products and services used by 22 million people and 110,000 DWP colleagues and agents.
What skills, knowledge and experience are we looking for?
- Applying Agile principles to iteratively deliver increments of value
- Eliciting and defining epics, user stories & acceptance criteria then collaboratively supporting the prioritisation of the backlog
- Facilitating workshops, interviews and document analysis, as well as working closely with User Researchers in order elicit needs and develop a shared understanding of current processes
- Undertaking investigative work to identify gaps, potential waste and suggest improvements
- Appling and monitoring appropriate use of modelling and analysis tools, methods and standards required
- Building strong relationships with stakeholders, taking into account individual views and ideas and tailoring the approach
We don’t care what industry or path you have taken to build the skills you have, we just need you to show us you have what it takes.
For your best chance to land an interview (where you can really show us what you’re all about), tailor and structure your application to address the above essential criteria. Just submitting your CV/employment history won’t give us the detail we need to assess your application effectively.
You’ll work on our Digital Working Age and Health Transformation team
Our goal is to respond to the impact of the current pandemic, aiding and supporting the people most economically disadvantaged including excluded young people and older people.
Our Digital Working Age and Health Transformation Programme is taking on the most fundamental reform since the inception of the welfare state.
You’ll work with our agile multidisciplinary teams using design and technology to build optimized user-centric systems. We want to inspire engage and help these people to get back into work, into better work, and to support those people who can’t work.
We’re innovating. We need expanded systems and programmes offering flexibility and diversity of work as well as a new and supported means of access to payments, grants and new-style benefits.
Details. Wages. Perks.
Your home location will be in Leeds or Newcastle: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/our-locations/
We also all have the tech and tools we need to enable our people to work flexibly, and many of us are working remotely at the moment due to COVID-19.
In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £40,666, a brilliant civil service pension, and a generous leave package.
We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Flexible working, flexi hours, flexi days off
- Family friendly policies
- Volunteering and charitable giving
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Sports and social activities
- Learning and development, including coaching, mentoring, qualifications and accreditation, career progression opportunities and lots more.
CLICK APPLY for further information and to start an application on Civil Service Jobs – write about how you fit the essential criteria in your personal statement and employment history.
If you have any questions of you want to discuss the role before you apply get in touch with me via Mimi.Enefiok@dwp.gov.uk