About the job

Job summary

Corporate Transformation is a relatively new Directorate established to increase the Scottish Government’s capacity and capability to shape and deliver transformational corporate change.

 

The Directorate will bring structure and governance to the setting of priorities, and manage the delivery of many key projects and programmes.

 

Our focus is delivery and, in order to ensure our future success, we need experienced, forward thinking professionals to come and join us!  

 

Systems and processes put in place some time ago are no longer fit for the government we have become, and for the journey ahead. Core services and capabilities need refreshed, creating new levels of service, ease of use, and productivity gains.

 

Our value within the organisation is in problem resolution and the creation and delivery of services which enables the organisation as a whole.

 

The Transformation Design and Architecture Division is home to people with business, data and digital architecture, design and analysis skills and expertise. People from the division will work on understanding what the future state for corporate services needs to look like, and the stepping stones we need to take to get there understanding our target business architecture, our overall data strategy for corporate services, and the components that together make up the ‘corporate platform’.

 

The team will also support programmes or projects that become initiatives in our roadmap. The Shared Services Programme is the first of these and is transforming our finance and HR services by moving to a standard set of best practice processes and features and adopting a new integrated cloud platform. 

 

As the Business Analyst, your initial focus will be to support the Shared Services Programme but in time, to work across the entire corporate transformation portfolio.  You may also be involved in pre-delivery project activities such as contributing to business case construction, option appraisal etc….

DDaT Pay Supplement

This post attracts a £5,000 per annum pro-rata DDaT Pay Supplement after a 3 month competency qualifying period. Pay supplements are temporary payments designed to address recruitment and retention issues caused by market pressures and are subject to regular review.

Job description

• Developing and applying a range of techniques to establish and analyse the current state, as is, people, processes and technology in customer organisations and the

relevant requirements likely to affect business change

• Supporting the identification of options to deliver enhanced outcomes for the organisations through better use of technology
• Contributing to the analyse of the business impact of requirements and ensure that the business is prepared for the change
• Supporting the provision of effective consultancy and advice to customers and stakeholders

Providing effective consultancy and advice to customers and stakeholders

Business analysts understand and analyse user and business needs!  You will also work with the service owner or product manager to:

• analyse and map risks and propose solutions
• check there is budget to cover the proposed approach, including ongoing running costs
• help define what skills a service will need and map where these can be found

Person specification

1. Awareness of business analysis lifecycle techniques and practices.
2. Experience of business analysis application in a digital project environment.
3. Experience of stakeholder engagement.
4. Experience in a project environment and awareness of project methodologies such as Prince 2, Agile

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,867, Scottish Government contributes £9,684 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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Selection process details

Sift and Interview dates TBC
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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

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