The Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment (DAWE) is responsible for enhancing Australia’s agriculture, environment, heritage and water resources through regulation and partnership. The department is undertaking several projects to streamline and accelerate digital transformation within the portfolio. Many of our existing services are being redesigned with an aim to improve the human experience.

To support this, the established Business Analysis Centre is expanding our team. We are looking for multiple experienced Senior Business Analysts with a passion for making government products and services better for the Australian community.

To be successful in the role requires you to have a strong work ethic including taking ownership, providing leadership and a high level of productivity. You must have suitable qualifications or training in business analysis techniques and at least 3 years’ experience working as a business analyst.

This position will report to the Director of the Business Analysis Centre and project manager as appropriate. The positions are Canberra based working at least 40% face to face in flexible working arrangements, typically co-located with the business area they are working with.

In addition to this work, you will be supported by and contribute to the work of the Business Analysis Centre, which includes work on:

• Supporting strategic business engagement and project initiation
• Pre-project analysis and discovery
• Project change management
• Contributing to capability uplift
• Progressing the department’s ICT strategy and Enterprise Architecture

Desired skills and experience

• Extensive experience using multiple business analysis techniques and skills from various methodologies
• Ability to choose and apply techniques that will provide the most value for any given situation/project
• Excellent at facilitating collaboration between all project stakeholders, including designing and leading workshops
• Ability to independently seek out and engage stakeholders, establishing and nurturing productive relationships
• Excellent creative problem-solving skills
• Experience working in an Agile and Iterative Development approach
• Work independently in complex situations with a pragmatic approach to allocated work, demonstrating commitment to project outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to produce high quality, concise, easy to read and relevant architecture and analysis documentation for digital services

Bonus skills/experience

• Experience working within federal government
• Understanding of the Australian Government’s Digital Service Standard and the principles behind human-centred design

In responding to the 5 essential selection criteria, please limit your response to 500 words maximum in total. We understand this is restrictive, so you may wish to use a couple of good examples that cover several selection criteria.

In responding to the 3 desirable/optional selection criteria, please limit your response to 100 words maximum in total.

To be eligible, applicants MUST be an Australian Citizen, Permanent Resident or hold a valid work permit or visa. Work eligibility is checked as part of the recruitment process. Preferred /short listed candidates will be required to complete pre-employment screening, including a national police check and misconduct screening.