Full time: 35 hours per week

Fixed time period: 2 years

The Opportunity:

We have an thrilling alternative for a Senior Business Analyst to hitch our crew and act as our analytical specialist in our programme – Growing Research Together.  Are you extremely organised, pragmatic, an skilled in Business Analysis and used to working in a posh fast-paced atmosphere? We are searching for a pushed, motivated and adaptive colleague who would relish the chance to work for an organisation whose analysis helps to make the world a greater place.

This function will not be appropriate for Business Analysts whose main expertise is within the evaluation and specification of IT programs tasks.

Growing Research Together is an bold programme which seeks to ship organisation-wide enhancements of analysis help providers inside a big and various world-leading research-intensive University. We are about to begin a brand new part of exercise which wants an skilled analyst at its coronary heart, and a person who ideally has expertise from working in Higher Education. Your function will present enterprise evaluation experience to help the supply of tasks and initiatives that purpose to construct on our good follow, and the place essential enhance and alter our analysis help providers. You will work with and construct key inner relationships throughout the university and in Schools, Units and Colleges. This alternative would require a excessive stage of experience, focus, drive, willpower and a capability to proactively affect and help colleagues, and prioritise actions.

You will likely be an issue skilled and can assist present a strong proof base to help our evolution. You will handle a small crew of enterprise analysts and can use their problem-solving and analytical abilities, in addition to your individual, to know what works and what doesn’t. You will work with aptitude, enthusiasm and dedication to participating our workers, and because the analytics skilled you’ll assist us discover alternatives to enhance and counsel new methods. You will likely be concerned in creating, main and sustaining all of the enterprise evaluation levels and use numerous specialist strategies, instruments and strategies. You will facilitate workshops and work with university colleagues to allow groups by means of the phases of engagement and evaluation and assist ship future proof options, alongside this offering the chance to help our colleagues to construct on their expertise and ship extraordinary outcomes by means of co-creating our future providers.

Your abilities and attributes for fulfillment:

• Expert information of enterprise evaluation in a posh devolved organisation, and ideally expertise of working in a Higher Education or different atmosphere
• Experience of guiding and managing a crew of Business Analysts
• Proven track-record of analytical drawback fixing capabilities and the flexibility to translate drawback statements into evaluation necessities
• Excellent necessities administration abilities, and skill to simplify advanced issues, and course of into part components, discover and consider them systematically
• Significant expertise of course of mapping and repair necessities gathering
• Strong confirmed expertise in leveraging knowledge, analytics and insights to allow transformation and enhancements
• Proven diagnostics abilities
• Excellent relationship administration abilities working with key stakeholders in technical and enterprise environments
• An inquisitive thoughts, difficult the logic, facilitating our expertise, while stimulating thought-provoking options  
• The potential to affect, interact and problem senior leaders and work as a trusted associate with analysis help colleagues

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable physique, registered in Scotland, with registration quantity SC005336.

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