Vacancy Information
This role is within a unit where Surrey Police and Sussex Police work in collaboration, whilst continuing to be two separate legal entities/employers with different terms and conditions.
Both Surrey Police staff and Sussex Police staff are employed in this unit on their own force terms and conditions.
Successful candidates may be appointed on the terms and conditions of employment of either Surrey Police or Sussex Police, depending on organisational requirements. A discussion will be held with the successful candidate to confirm the details of location, salary, allowance and hours.
Division / Department - Regional Collaboration
Status - Full Time
Contract Type - Permanent
Grade - Surrey Police Grade H / Sussex Police Grade 11
Salary Grade Range - Surrey Police £35,028 - £41,464 / Sussex Police £35,223 - £38,856
Politically Restricted -
Unsocial Hours Allowance -
Location - Multiple Locations
The starting salary for this role will usually be at the bottom of the salary range and will be pro-rata if the working hours are less than full time.
The Role
An opportunity has arisen for a Business Analyst to join the Digital Division in a collaborative role across Surrey and Sussex.
The successful candidate will be responsible for understanding and interpreting business priorities, problems or opportunities into business process and solutions which may or may not involve changes to technology.
Although based at either Surrey HQ or Sussex HQ, the post holder will be required to work agilely across both forces.
Key Responsibilities
The successful candidate will have the following responsibilities:
Digital Capability
a) Ensure that all changes are in line with the Force(s’) priorities and technical
delivery roadmaps in liaison with the Digital Division leads.
b) Undertake the analysis of business requirements, highlighting, documenting
and recommending areas for system and business process improvements where
digital working can transform the way in which we work.
c) Ensure that changes within the Digital Division portfolio do not
adversely affect any other downstream integrated/interfaced applications.
d) Keep up to date with other digital transformation initiatives (regionally and
nationally).
Business Analysis
a) Work independently to elicit, validate and document business requirements, perform
gap analysis and input into solution where necessary.
b) Document the current process, system and organisation using standard modelling
and mapping techniques.
c) Identify where change is required by performing thorough gap analysis and identify
potential solutions (assessing them from both a technical and business suitability).
d) Engage with project stakeholders throughout the lifecycle of the project, review the
quality of business change deliverables and develop and design solutions when
gaps are apparent.
e) Undertake reviews of change plans to assess whether the business model is
effective and to ensure that consistency and integrity is maintained.
f) Undertake post project implementations reviews and ensure that findings and
lessons learnt are acted upon.
Stakeholder Relationships
a) Promote best practice through planning, organising, co-ordinating and running
workshops with senior/end users, encouraging stakeholder engagement to
gather and meet business needs and ensuring there are no gaps or duplication.
b) Liaise with business users, IT and suppliers as appropriate.
Skills & Experience
Essential Qualifications:
1. English & Maths (A level or equivalent)
2. Experience/understanding of IT product life cycle
3. Demonstrably sound understanding of business analysis
Desirable Qualifications:
1. ISEB Business Analysis Accreditation
Essential Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
1. Experience of a product focussed environment - supporting the development of a core functionality to support the needs of the business
2. Ability to effectively identify problems, and provide suitable solutions to address issues
3. A good understanding of the change processes within an IT Department
4. Good verbal, written and communication skills and the ability to tailor these depending on the audience using a variety of business productivity tools
5. Good interpersonal skills, with strong ownership ethic and be capable of managing issues through to resolution
6. Sound decision making, problem solving and analytical skills with the ability to prioritise work effectively and proven desire to provide solutions
7. Confident and able to represent the Force at user group meetings if required to do so
8. Experience of preparing, writing and implementing procedures and processes
Desirable Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
1. Understanding of the Police/public sector working environment
2. Ability to analyse information and identify trends and practices that affect accuracy of data
Contact Details
For further information about the role please contact Jenn Hutchinson on 07864964317
or jennie.hutchinson@sussex.pnn.police.uk, or T/Chief Inspector Jo Grantham on 07912 896791 or joanne.grantham@sussex.pnn.police.uk
Additional Information
Following submission of your application you will receive a confirmation email with a copy of your application attached. Occasionally emails from this address can fall into spam/junk folders so please ensure this is checked regularly. You may wish to consider adding noreply@surreysussexpolice.as.recruitmail.com to your address/contact list to ensure you receive all communications.
Surrey Police and Sussex Police work together in collaboration for this role, however they remain two different employers, with differing pay scales, allowances and terms and conditions including hours of employment.
If you are an internal candidate and are conditionally offered the role your attendance record and any reasonable adjustments already in place will be discussed with yourself and your current line manager. If you are successful in your application, you may be required to resign and transfer your employment, taking on the Terms & Conditions and pay scales of the Lead Force (if this is not your existing Home Force).
This post is being advertised in parallel with Force redeployment processes. Any redeployees who are identified will be given preference. This may result in the post being withdrawn at any point during the recruitment process.
Surrey Police and Sussex Police Special Constables, Volunteers and Agency Staff (excluding self employed workers) covered under the Agency Worker Regulations (AWR) are eligible to apply for internal advertised posts.
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