Senior Business Analyst - Active Travel England - G7 in Manchester

Location: York

About The Job

Can you lead complex analysis that informs strategic decisions, shapes programmes and supports the delivery of organisational priorities? Are you a collaborative leader who can build strong relationships, influence senior stakeholders and communicate complex information clearly and effectively? Have you successfully translated policy, evidence and stakeholder insight into practical recommendations that improve outcomes for communities and customers? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

We are a passionate and supportive team that values innovation, inclusion and continuous improvement. Through robust business analysis, strategic thinking and evidence-based decision making, we help shape programmes, services and investments that deliver meaningful outcomes across the country. Working closely with a wide range of stakeholders, we turn complex challenges into actionable solutions, ensuring that customer, community and organisational needs are understood and embedded throughout the design and delivery process. We are committed to creating an environment where people can develop, contribute and thrive, while fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning and improvement.

Joining Our Department Comes With Many Benefits, Including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary.
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Job Description

Active Travel England is the government agency responsible for making walking, wheeling and cycling safer and more accessible across England. Working closely with the Department for Transport, local authorities and national partners, we support the delivery of active travel infrastructure through expert advice, funding and policy leadership. This is an exciting opportunity to lead high-profile projects, influence national priorities and help shape the future delivery of active travel at scale.

Your Responsibilities Will Include, But Aren’t Limited To:

• Own stakeholder relationships at senior levels; develop and maintain a strategic view of the business and policy context and how business analysis activities contribute to it.
• Role model positive behaviours and support the embedding of the new target operating model and the changes to the ways of working.
• Set the standards and expectations for your profession across ATE and engage and align with the wider DfT Group.
• Line management duties.
• Translate business needs into actionable requirements, including user stories, process maps, data flows and acceptance criteria.
• Contribute to agile ceremonies, backlog refinement, sprint planning and retros.
• Ensure business analysis work adheres to GDS standards and supports service assessments.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills set out in the Civil Service Line Management Standards.

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

Person specification

Required Experience:

• Management of stakeholders.
• Coaching and mentoring others.
• Agile working, ceremonies and processes.
• Discussing requirements with user groups to establish deliverables.
• Working on business improvements and resolution of live issues.
• Mapping business processes and systems modelling.
• Documentation of requirements for use during development and reference material after implementation.

Additional Information

This post is offered on a Fixed Term Appointment (FTA) basis to complete a finite piece of work. Permanent Civil Servants will be appointed on an inward loan and subject to the terms of the agreed inward loan. You must have your home department's approval to return to them at the end of the loan before you apply. Internal candidates will return to their previous post at the end of the loan period, which will need to be agreed with your line manager in advance. If your home department cannot agree to release you on loan, there is the opportunity for you to move across to the department on a fixed term appointment. In this instance, the Department for Transport would become your home department and if there is no role available for you at the end of this appointment, you would be subject to the redeployment and redundancy process. If you're employed by a non-departmental public body (NDPB) by moving jobs this will involve a change of employer and you may break the statutory rules on continuity of employment. There could be the potential of extension up to 2 years or permanency, subject to the role being available (and for those coming across on loan, your home department's agreement).