Business Analyst and Project Lead Contract

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Business Case and Proposal Writing (30%)

• Experience writing business cases including current state assessments, establishing goals, outcomes and creating plans to achieve them.
• Experience creating cost benefit analyses
• Experience creating process & service measures and indicators
• Experience writing business requirements, background materials and drafting briefing materials.
• Experience completing intake and project initiation activities including creating project charters, project outlines and business cases
• Experience completing detailed options analyses including feasibility assessments, jurisdictional, market and literature scans.

Business Process Creation (15%)

• Experience designing services and business processes for new business areas
• Experience creating processes, swimlanes etc according to industry standard techniques and methodologies

Project Planning and Coordination (20%)

Ability to track and report on deliverables across multiple projects
Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
Ability to Create and track integrated project plans (including scope, schedule, and resources)
Monitor and report on project progress through stand-ups and weekly status updates
Track project level Risks, Issues, Actions and Decisions and report it up to the program manager
Create detailed iteration / sprint plans and manage sprint execution from kickoff through retrospective
Experience providing onboarding and orientation of new staff / project resources
Knowledge of the software development life cycle, software design, development and integration, database concepts, user interface design principle, change management, quality assurance, risk management, disaster recovery planning, business continuity planning

Communications (15%)

Strong communication skills to prepare documentation, including but not limited to; reports, reviews, assessments
Ability to communicate designs and development in clear and understandable manner

Must haves:

• Business Case and Proposal Writing Experience
• Experience writing business cases including current state assessments, establishing goals, outcomes and creating plans to achieve them.
• Experience creating cost benefit analyses
• Experience creating process & service measures and indicators
• Project Planning and Coordination Experience

Nice to have:

OPS Experience