Analyst - Business (T2065N &T2066N)

Job summary

Working in the team with Michael our Lead Business Analyst, Ollie and Carol our Senior Business Analysts and our community of Business Analysts you will play a critical role in Digital Delivery. You will be joining our small but friendly team, which is committed to making positive changes for all our users. Michael believes in working in a Collaborative and flexible way to foster good decision-making and problem-solving within the team.

We believe that it’s critical that people continue to learn and develop, we align our roles to the Digital Data and Technology (DDAT) framework and have career pathways in place to ensure you will always understand your next step, and, we have a training plan in place to make sure that it happens.

We are looking for an experienced business analyst to join our team to help us meet our ambitions of ensuring Homes England has a strong basic infrastructure supported by good governance; and our digital services are genuinely modern, agile and effective drivers in the housing market.

This is an exciting opportunity in our business analysis profession making a real difference in our Digital Delivery team. These are exciting times in Digital Delivery at Homes England. We have a clear vision - to develop digitally enabled systems and services that work more simply for users - and we’re looking for talented people to help us achieve it.

Job description

As an experienced Business Analyst and an IT professional, you’ll understand how to manage colleagues and be able to demonstrate you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way. You will be able to work with senior stakeholders.

We will support you ensuring you will be comfortable supporting a multi-disciplinary team’s complex backlog delivering user-focused products through collaboratively developed user stories. You will be flexible, able to switch between agile and waterfall projects, and self-assured supporting Homes England with procuring and adopting new products and services.

As a Business Analyst, joining us on this you will be expected to demonstrate you meet the skills and expertise required of the Digital Data and Technology frameworks specification for a business analyst as laid out in the attached job description.

Person specification

• Business analysis qualification, ideally and BCS Diploma.
• Experienced in business analysis, working both collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary agile team and alone.
• Experience of working with the user centred design profession and their methods and techniques.
• Experience of Agile development methodologies, particularly Scrum.
• Experience of working with a backlog of user stories and acceptance criteria using Behaviour Driven Development.
• Experience of waterfall projects, producing High Level, Functional and Non-Functional requirements.
• Knowledge of the GDS development approach / digital standards.
• Awareness of public sector Information Security issues.
• Awareness of public sector finances e.g. Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL).

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.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

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.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 theCivil 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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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk