Business Analyst

Boston Spa, Yorkshire British Library
Description
Full Time, Fixed Term for 18 months

This new role offers a unique and exciting opportunity to join our team delivering one of the British Library's major transformational capital programmes. The programme will transform the Library over the next decade. It will open up our world class resources to more people than ever before, working with partners towards a British Library presence in one of the North's greatest architectural wonders - the Grade-I listed Temple Works in the Holbeck district of Leeds; and will support regeneration and economic recovery at a local, regional and national scale.

In this new role, you will be responsible for detailed analysis to assess the viability of the Library's proposal for a British Library at Temple Works in Leeds, identifying the required changes to deliver new and inspiring public facing services for audiences of over half a million per year.

You will have significant and practical experience of requirements management, business process modelling, process re-engineering, and business change. You will lead workshops, and work with key senior leaders across the Library, to identify the service requirements that will shape the physical design; document user stories that will deliver those requirements; undertake gap analysis; and propose recommendations for change.

To ensure that the proposed services will be underpinned by efficient new workflows and technical developments, you will analyse and document existing and new business processes, reengineering where required. You will support the development of delivery plans, financial models, options papers and detailed requirements catalogues, enabling decision making, assessments of viability and implementation.

The role will be based at our Boston Spa site in West Yorkshire, with travel to both Leeds city centre and our London site required.

As one of the world's great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation's intellectual memory for the future and make it available to all for research, inspiration and enjoyment. At present we have well over 170 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. We make our collections and programmes available to all. We operate the world's largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in the future by anyone, anywhere.

In return we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent benefits. Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes a minimum of 20.6% (this may be higher dependant on grade. Another significant benefit the Library provides is the provision of a flexible working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.

For further information and to apply, please visit quoting vacancy ref:04193

Closing date: 18 September 2022

Interview date: TBC

We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role, as it does not meet the eligibility criteria required for this immigration route


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