Australian Citizens residing in Australia only respond. Contract start 01 October 2023 to 12 months, 2 x 12 months extensions. Australian Citizen, Clearance, Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne role. Send your responses to ****** Services Australia is seeking to identify suitable Candidates to perform the role of Business Analysts, Systems Analysts and Solution Design Managers up to manager levels to support the agency to document business requirements, capture business needs, and design, create, evaluate, and document ICT solutions in new and existing ICT systems. Business Analysts analyse and integrate information provided by customers, staff, Information Technology (IT) professionals, executives, and other internal and external stakeholders. They are responsible for understanding the core needs and requirements of stakeholders and the agency. Business Analysts often play a central role in aligning the needs of business units with the capabilities delivered by IT or business activities and may serve as a translator between stakeholder groups. Business Analysts exercise a degree of independent judgement and make decisions within defined parameters that rely on skills and knowledge. The level of Security Clearance required for a Role will be confirmed at the time of Contract. Job Title Assistant Director Business Analyst APS Equivalent Level EL1 Main Duties Duties may include, but not limited to, some or all of the following: liaise with a range of stakeholders to understand, gather, and analyse core requirements and concerns in line with agency business objectives implement business analysis approaches that may include specifying team roles, deliverables, analysis techniques or stakeholder communication identify and recommend improvements for consideration by senior staff, providing strong analysis, validation and justification increase engagement with a range of key stakeholders to effectively understand cross business functions facilitate and lead communication across business units and represent the agency at a range of internal and external forums produce and review business analyst artefacts and documents that may include risk analysis, scope modelling, problem tracking and sequence diagrams prepare and implement change management plans and/or communication plans prepare, perform and coordinate brainstorming, workshops, prototyping, observation, or interviews, and confirm or report on results prepare, prioritise, and organise clear business and stakeholder requirement management plans, including quality assurance strategies conduct risk analysis and problem tracking to mitigate potential issues implement performance metrics and reporting tools to effectively measure work, outputs, and objectives specify and model requirements through analysis using textual statements, matrices, diagrams, and formal models identify business analyst deliverables, the scope of work for the business analysis activities, resource allocation and estimates for business analyst work assess and validate solutions to business capability gaps develop clear and defined work plans and timeframes for self and team in the context of business priorities Main skills/attributes Ability to: perform high level research, analysis, apply logic and creativity to constructively problem solve develop and manage a range of internal and external stakeholder relationships using tailored communication collaborate, negotiate with, and influence staff and stakeholders to achieve optimal outcomes facilitate groups, workshops, and meetings manage and resolve conflict using appropriate strategies Page 6 of 9 demonstrate strong system and lateral thinking with a cognitive view make decisions that are based on professional judgement in the context of a complex and changing environment prioritise competing tasks and work collaboratively to deliver quality outcomes Every application requires to address selection criteria as part of application submission. Please complete the below forms. Candidate Application form Candidate Referee Report
