We are looking for a Full-time contractor or employee for a Business Analyst role.
The Business Analyst is responsible for performing advanced business and systems analysis work that involves gathering, developing, and documenting business processes, and recommendations. Also conducts research and special project work. The position will work in concert with appropriate internal and external stakeholders to support the organization’s long-term business goals/strategy for the agency’s case management system. Excellent communication and presentation skills are required for developing reports, fiscal notes, and presentations. Familiarity with child and adult welfare case management practices is required.
This role may also be responsible for the following:
- Seeking, gathering and analyzing information from internal and external stakeholders and subject matter experts.
- Converting findings into meaningful documentation for use by the division leadership team.
- Communicating with technical, non-technical, functional, management and senior level staff.
- Working within cross-functional teams.
- Taking initiative to develop and foster a collaborative approach among teams before, during and after the requirements gathering process to achieve a common mission, vision, values and goals.
The Worker must have a strong Business Analysis background with extensive experience in the following:
- Experience with analyzing and/or implementing child welfare case management systems.
- Experience with analyzing and/or implementing systems meeting the requirements for a Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS).
- Assessing an organization’s readiness for change.
- Strategic planning for an enterprise organization.
- Robust skills facilitating and leading groups, to include senior level leadership teams, to clarify and define project goals, needs, scope and priorities, as well as delivering presentations for meetings involving cross-functional teams and including stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to provide clear and consistent status updates and inform stakeholders and agency leadership of project progress.
- Solid experience with the Microsoft Suite of tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, MS Project, and Visio).
- Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) methodologies.
- Communicating and listening in a way that is focused on clear expression of, as well as understanding of ideas and concepts that ultimately lead to positive outcomes and results.
- Knowledge of Texas Project Delivery Framework.
Skills(Required):
- Experience as a Business Analyst in an enterprise level environment
- Development of documents summarizing analysis and key recommendations with a strong attention to detail
- Experience with the Microsoft Suite of tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, MS Project and SharePoint)
- Strong working knowledge of child welfare systems
- Developing Use Case documentation and User Stories that lead to clearly defined and numbered project requirements
- Facilitating meetings, requirements gathering sessions and conducting presentations
- Developing and presenting project status updates and reporting on key performance indicators for project success
- Experience with analyzing and/or implementing systems meeting the requirements for a Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS)
- Knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Project Management Life Cycle (PMLC) methodologies
Skills(Preferred):
- Knowledge of the Texas Project Delivery Framework.