Candidate Pack. Business Analyst

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1 Candidate Pack Business Analyst

2 Welcome About the MMO Vacancy Description Recruitment Processes Indicative Timeline Terms, Conditions and Benefits

3 The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. We license and regulate marine activities in the seas around England and Wales so that they're carried out in a sustainable way. We re responsible for: Managing and monitoring fishing fleet sizes and quotas for catches. Ensuring compliance with fisheries regulations, such as fishing vessel licences and quotas for fish and seafood. Managing funding programmes for fisheries activities. Planning and licensing for marine construction, deposits and dredging that may have an environmental, economic or social impact. Making marine nature conservation byelaws. Dealing with marine pollution emergencies, including oil spills. Helping to prevent illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing worldwide. Producing marine plans to include all marine activities, including those we don t directly regulate. More information about our work is on the GOV.UK website. The Marine Management Organisation is committed to its staff and believes in investing in their wellbeing and learning and development. We strive to be an Organisation that creates an environment in which staff are able to identify and share good practice, celebrate success and encourage positive attitudes towards diversity. John Tuckett, CEO

4 ABOUT THE WORK AREA Transformation Team The transformation team help the MMO make sure its services are the best they can be. We work with teams across the organisation to identify opportunities for service improvement and implement changes where needed. By supporting our colleagues we can ensure that business as usual work carries on at the same time as improvement work. We also work closely with industry to understand their needs and how we can help them be compliant with relevant legislation. Improvement work is often carried out in projects or programmes and the transformation team ensures these are managed consistently and to a high quality. Such projects vary considerably, for example modernising existing processes, implementing new ones, or introducing digital tools to help delivery. The transformation team is made up of the following functions: Programme and project managers- managing improvement projects Project management office -ensuring projects are properly resourced, managed and governed Service design- ensuring improvement work is designed with the end user at its heart and carried out in accordance with the principles of the government digital service where appropriate

5 Job Title: Business Analyst Grade: SEO Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne is the preferred location for this post (other Defra offices may be considered but frequent travel to Newcastle will be required). Duration: This post will be until the end of March 2019 with the possibility of extension. This post is available to external candidates as well as to existing civil service staff as a secondment opportunity. Vacancy Reference: 2025 Salary: 34,076 pa (existing civil servants already working at SEO grade can transfer on their current salary providing this is within our SEO band). Main Duties and Accountabilities You will be a part of the MMO Service Design Team, focused on enhancing our marine licensing service. You will support a structured engagement process to deliver a number of priority pieces of work within our licensing improvement programme such as the alpha phase of the marine licensing exemptions within the existing self-service. Your responsibilities will include: Apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to ensure that the team s plans and objectives are achieved. Investigate operational requirements, problems, and opportunities, seeking effective business solutions drawing on input from specialist colleagues within the programme. Works with clients/ users in defining acceptance tests. Building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Requirements definition and management- analyse business requirements and user needs to agree detailed functional and technical specifications and plans, assess new requirements that are not yet met, helping to make sure that the needs fit with the overall service plan. Selecting the most appropriate means of representing business requirements. Establish a base-line on which delivery of a solution can commence. Manage requests for and the application of changes to base-lined requirements. Business process testing- specify and develop test scenarios to test that new/ updated processes deliver improved ways of working for the end user at the same time as delivering efficiencies and planned business benefits. Record and analyse test results, and report any unexpected or unsatisfactory outcomes. Use test plans and outcomes to specify user instructions.

6 Job Title: Business Analyst Grade: SEO Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne is the preferred location for this post (other Defra offices may be considered but frequent travel to Newcastle will be required). Duration: This post will be until the end of March 2019 with the possibility of extension. This post is available to external candidates as well as to existing civil service staff as a secondment opportunity. Vacancy Reference: 2025 Salary: 34,076 pa (existing civil servants already working at SEO grade can transfer on their current salary providing this is within our SEO band). Skills and experience It is essential that you have: experience of working with, analysing and communicating data to a range of audiences experience of communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences experience of delivering transformational change experience of working in a fast-paced multidisciplinary team in which you have changed your delivery focus rapidly and regularly when needed demonstrable experience of building a culture of continuous delivery and improvement, ensuring that data is regularly analysed, maintained and improved an understanding of user centric design, personal data, digital transactions, security and privacy It is desirable that you have: experience of using a range of digital delivery tools experience of producing and/or contributing to a range of documentation that may include presentations, briefings, business cases, contracts Experience of working in an agile team

7 Job Title: Business Analyst Grade: SEO Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne is the preferred location for this post (other Defra offices may be considered but frequent travel to Newcastle will be required). Duration: This post will be until the end of March 2019 with the possibility of extension. This post is available to external candidates as well as to existing civil service staff as a secondment opportunity. Competency Profile In the Civil Service we use our Competency Framework to outline expected behaviours and we will use these as part of our wider assessment during the interview process. For this role, the following competencies are the most relevant: making effective decisions changing and improving leading and communicating delivering at pace Vacancy Reference: 2025 Salary: 34,076 pa (existing civil servants already working at SEO grade can transfer on their current salary providing this is within our SEO band).

8 How to Apply All of our jobs are advertised on the Civil Service Jobs website. Applicant guidance notes and how to complete competency statements are also available. Sift and Interviews If an initial sift is required it will be carried out on the lead competence/online situational judgement test. The interview will consist of 45 minute competency/technical based interview. Questions will then be invited from the interview panel. Further Information If you have any questions about applying for this role please contact: Ruth Fox Tel:

9 Indicative Timeline Please note these dates are only indicative at this stage and could be subject to change. If you are unable to meet these timeframes, please let us know by contacting; Ruth Fox Tel Week commencing 2 nd July th May- 13 th June Week commencing 25 th June 2018 Interviews Outcome Week commencing 30 th July 2018 Anticipated start date Sift period* 29 th May 2018 Closing date May 2018 July 2018 Interviews will take place at Lancaster House, Hampshire Court, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 7YH. * The sift will include an online situational judgement test as an initial sift, links to the test will be sent via .

10 Appointment Term: Fixed term until end March 2019 Location: Working Arrangements: Full time, flexible working arrangements. With competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave we also recognise the importance of a good work-life balance and offer flexible working and a family friendly approach to work. Salary Range: Pension: 34,076-41,416 Your pension is a valuable part of your total reward package where: The employer makes a significant contribution to the cost of your pension. Your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken. This means, if you pay tax, your take-home pay will not be reduced by the full amount of your contribution; and Your pension will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire. For more information, visit

11 Leave Allowance: 30 days (pro-rated for part time staff), 10 and a half day s public and privilege holidays and flexible working. Training and Development: We are committed to investing in our staff and offer a range of work based training and qualifications, coaching and mentoring opportunities and a guaranteed five days of learning a year. Other Benefits: Childcare - the Civil Service recognises that many staff balance working lives with the demands of a family life and offers support with childcare and holiday play schemes costs by providing childcare vouchers for staff who meet the eligibility criteria. Special leave. Sick pay. Salary advances. Interest free season ticket and bicycle loans. Defra discount scheme. Employee Assistance Programme. Eye care. Trade Unions. Mediation service. Volunteering. Staff networking pages. Some sites also offer onsite facilities including fitness centres and staff canteens.

12 Eligibility: This post is advertised to suitably qualified people in the external market, and to existing Civil Servants and those in accredited Non Departmental Public Bodies. Nationality: All jobs listed in our current vacancies are open to: EC nationals members of the Commonwealth, European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non-eea family members Candidates from the Commonwealth must be free from any restrictions to reside and take up employment in the UK. As part of our selection process, successful candidates will be asked to provide, in confidence, evidence of entitlement to work in the UK and to provide references for your character and health. We will usually ask for documentary evidence of your nationality and other personal details to enable us to start taking up references, health and security clearance checks. We will tell you what you need to bring with you if you are invited to attend an assessment centre. Reserved for UK Nationals: Certain posts, notably those concerned with security and intelligence, might be reserved for British citizens, but this will not normally prevent access to a wide range of developmental opportunities within the Civil Service. This is not a reserved post.

13 Security Clearance: Pre-employment checks will be undertaken in accordance with the HM Government Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). The BPSS comprises verification of four main elements: Identity employment history for the last three years nationality and immigration status, including the right to work criminal records check for unspent convictions also known as a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks. In some circumstances enhanced checks may also be required however candidates will be advised if this is the case. Additionally, successful candidates are required to give a reasonable account of any significant periods (six months or more in the past three years) of time spent abroad. The DBS checks are designed to provide clarity on any unspent convictions and therefore the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) apply. Conflicts of interest: Candidates must note the requirement to declare any interests they may have that might cause questions to be raised about their approach to the business of the Department. They are required to declare any relevant business interests, shareholdings, positions of authority, retainers, consultancy arrangements or other connections with commercial, public or voluntary bodies, both for themselves and for their spouses/partners. The successful candidate will be required to give up any conflicting interests and his/her other business and financial interests may be published.

14 Equality and Diversity: The Marine Management Organisation is committed to being an equal opportunities employer. We value and welcome diversity. We aim to develop all our staff to enable them to make a full contribution to meeting the Department's objectives, and to fulfil their own potential on merit. We will not tolerate harassment or other unfair discrimination on grounds of sex, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, age, religion or sexual orientation. We will promote and support the use of a range of flexible working patterns to enable staff to balance home and work responsibilities; and we will treat people fairly irrespective of their working arrangements. Under the terms of the Equality Act 2010, we are legally required to consider making reasonable adjustments to ensure that disabled people are not disadvantaged in the recruitment and selection process. We are therefore committed to meeting, wherever possible, any needs you specify in your application. We will also consider any reasonable adjustments under the terms of the Act to enable any applicant with a disability (as defined under the Act) to meet the requirements of the post. We offer a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for people with disabilities (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) who meet the minimum criteria for appointment. Civil Service Code: All civil servants are subject to the provisions of the Civil Service Code that details the Civil Service values, standards of behaviour and rights and responsibilities. For further information, visit GOV.UK.