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 Senior Business Analyst APS Equivalent Level APS6 Main Duties Duties may include, but not limited to, some or all of the following: assist in defining and clarifying business needs to inform action plans, solution reports or business cases for consideration by senior staff liaise with stakeholders to understand, gather, and analyse their requirements and concerns in line with the agency's business objectives identify potential business needs to recommend improvements for consideration by senior staff and provide analysis, verification, and validation on the recommended improvements conduct stakeholder analysis to assist in effectively understanding cross business functions facilitate communication across business units with a range of stakeholders and represent the agency by promoting its interests at a range of forums assist with managing requirements and communication through scope, traceability, and maintenance produce documents that may include risk analysis, scope modelling, problem tracking and sequence diagrams prepare or contribute to change management plans and/or communication plans participate and perform brainstorming, workshops, prototyping, observation, or interviews, and confirm or report on results prepare and contribute to clear business and stakeholder requirement documentation including prioritising, organising, and verifying the requirements examine and organise requirements to record and identify dependencies, relationships, and logical sequences review project documentation and agency processes to assist with determining deliverables contribute to risk analysis, identify issues and problem tracking to assist senior staff with the mitigation of potential issues contribute towards the requirements management plan, including testing and quality checking activities contribute towards or manage performance reporting activities and/or variance analysis prepare textual statements, matrices, diagrams, and formal models to contribute to the analysis of requirements Main skills/attributes Ability to: Requirements definition and management REQM - Level 3 Software design SWDN - Level 3 Ability to: communicate effectively and adapt communication styles appropriate to the audience perform strong research, analysis, apply creativity and problem solve build and develop internal and external stakeholder relationships negotiate with and influence others to achieve optimal outcomes facilitate groups, workshops, and meetings manage conflict using appropriate strategies and determine issues for escalation demonstrate system and lateral thinking with a cognitive view make decisions using good judgement, expertise, and knowledge establish clear work plans, as well as prioritise workload and timeframes for self and others Every application requires to address selection criteria as part of application submission. Please complete the below forms. Candidate Application form Candidate Referee Report
