Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford
Job summary
The Integrated Corporate Services (ICS) is a new shared corporate service, launched in July 2023. It provides corporate services (HR, Finance, Digital, Commercial, Security and Estates) across the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) and the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT).
Our team of just over 300 professionals will be leading the way in how these functions will be delivered in the future. Our ambition is to be the leading provider of integrated corporate services for government and set the standard for quality, efficiency, and innovation in our field.
We offer great working benefits including a world-class pension, flexible working options and a career where your learning and development is taken seriously. We are enormously proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We support candidates with adjustments throughout our recruitment process. Information about disability confidence and just some examples of the adjustments that you can request can be found in the reasonable adjustment section below.
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.
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Join ICS Digital, where innovation meets expertise to create digital solutions. We are a cohesive digital community who work in the open, solving problems together and fostering a culture of transparency and collaboration. Our commitment to user-focused design and data-driven decision-making ensures that we deliver accessible services tailored to the needs of our customers.
Our vision in ICS Digital is to use the best of digital, data, technology, and associated approaches to transform the way in which we deliver services and work with businesses, citizens, partners and our employees.
We support Departments by delivering core technology services which help them achieve strategic and policy objectives. We put the user at the heart of what we do, and we take an interactive approach to service delivery. Our decisions are driven by data and we work collaboratively with partners to continue to deliver exceptional services.
Senior Executive Officer (SEO) Business Analyst
We are recruiting one Senior Executive Officer (SEO) Business Analyst to help us support the delivery of Digital Services and contribute to developing the Business Analysis profession. We are looking for hard-working, forward-thinking people with strong interpersonal and analytical skills who enjoy working collaboratively with others to solve problems.
We are a small but growing team with a strong sense of community. We care about the way we work, how we treat each other, the quality of our services and how we make a difference for our customers.
This is an exciting opportunity to advance your career and develop your skills within a supportive and encouraging team. We are passionate about career development and offer a diverse range of learning and development opportunities.
Visit our blog to learn more about us and our work: https://icsdigital.blog.gov.uk/
To find out more about the Government Digital & Data profession visit: We are Government Digital and Data Candidate Information Pack V3 – 1
Person specification
As a Senior Business Analyst, you will explore ideas for change, suggesting solutions and guiding them through to completion.
Key responsibilities for the role:
- Investigate reported issues, determine their root causes and impact, and advocate for valuable change.
- Collaborate closely with business stakeholders, users, and agile teams to prioritise and deliver user-centric transformations, considering policy constraints.
- Utilise your technical expertise to define requirements, create models for shared understanding, and make evidence-based decisions for impactful solutions.
- Mentor junior team members, empowering them with skills and knowledge for success, and foster a culture of continuous improvement by sharing your expertise within our collaborative community.
The above responsibilities are not exhaustive, and the post holders may be required to undertake some additional tasks not listed above, within the remit of their grade, to support the team.
As a line manager, you will be responsible for working with your members of staff to define their objectives, as well as managing their development and performance.
We would love to hear from you if you have experience in:
- Investigating, analysing, and solving problems, and making evidence-based decisions in a Business Analyst context.
- Identifying stakeholders and determining the level of engagement required for successful collaboration.
- Capturing evidence-based user needs and translating them into functional and non-functional requirements.
- Modelling business and data views (existing, conceptual, and proposed) to support common understanding.
- Leading and mentoring other Business Analysts to ensure delivery of high-quality services.
- Identifying opportunities for process improvement, automation, or alternative approaches to business activities.
The below experience would be beneficial but not essential as we will provide necessary training.
- Delivering change in a collaborative team using agile principles
- Managing requirements to promote re-use and adaptability
- Using business architecture to inform your analysis
- Defining the approach, timescale and resources needed to deliver a specific piece of work
It is unusual that all candidates will meet all the desirable criteria. If your skills and experience look slightly different from what we have identified and you think you can bring value to the Business Analyst role and the team, we strongly encourage you to apply. We’d love to hear from you!
Please, no recruitment agencies.
Behaviours
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Developing Self and Others
Technical skills
We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Defining and managing business needs, user needs and requirements
- Business process improvement
- Stakeholder relationship management
Alongside your salary of £42,385, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes £12,278 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
- A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
- Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
- An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
- Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
- A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need.
The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home-based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.
Things you need to know
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