• Job details

Job reference

REQ5286

Date posted

04/04/2025

Application closing date

13/04/2025

Location

Hybrid working - Home and Leicester City Offices

Salary

£27,711 - £30,060 Per Year

Package

Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): £40,825.24

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Job category/type

Business Support

Attachments

Job specification N0312C Junior Business Analyst .pdf

Junior Business Analyst

Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent

Are you inquisitive, analytical, and creative? Do you want to develop valuable project management and business analyst experience with options to progress? Then you may be interested in a new role in the Social Care and Education Project Management team.

Join us as a Junior Business Analyst, where your role will be to work with key stakeholders to deliver initiatives that further the strategic and operational aims of the Social Care and Education department. You will do this by undertaking investigations and analysis of a variety of projects being delivered, supporting senior managers to make decisions.

You’ll work with project managers, business analysts and supporting staff in a recognised team, with opportunities to learn, shadow, and develop your analytical and project management skillset.

The role is hybrid, meaning most of your working time will be spent at home, with the expectation that you work from a city council office at least once a week. When working in the office, you’ll be based at Halford House, but may be required to travel across the city to undertake visits and attend meetings.

This is a career graded post starting at LG Band 5 £27,711 - £30,060 Per Year, with options to progress to Band 6 £31,067 - £33,366 Per Year pending satisfactory checks or progress into a Business Analyst role (pending vacancy availability and satisfactory checks).

This is a full-time post, working 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday. On occasions, you may be required to work evenings to attend meetings. We offer flexible and agile working to promote a healthy work-life balance.

What you 'll be doing

In this role, you will be supporting the delivery of important, strategic initiatives by developing and demonstrating your abilities to investigate issues, analyse data, and report information - to assist key decision making.

On a day-to-day basis, you will be meeting and working with a range of stakeholders across the Social Care & Education department to source, collect, and understand information used to progress projects that instigate change.

You’ll use this information to create documents, plans and designs that you will use to present recommendations/ solutions to decision makers.

You’ll report to the Senior Business Analyst in the team, and will be part of a growing team of Business Change Commissioning Managers, Project Managers, Business Analysts and Project Officers - that have a wealth of experience for delivering initiatives that instigate change.

Like Patrick, a Business Analyst in the team you can progress within this role. See below what he says about the role:

As a Junior Business Analyst within this team, you will be working in a dynamic and complex environment. This will involve working with a mixture of qualitative and quantitative data sets.

This role will test your ability to not only analyse data but to analyse the business itself. As part of working with this team I have developed significantly in stakeholder management.

Within the role I have had to handle varying projects in order to understand the root causes of issues that have been identified across Adult Social Care. This has required me to utilise a broad set of skills such as: process mapping, demand forecasting, and leading workshops.

The team itself is a highly skilled and motivated group who try to bring out the best in each other; providing many opportunities for development to build project management skills.

What you 'll need

We are looking for someone that has an enthusiasm for fact-finding, analysis, and sharing ideas.

If you are:

• Analytical
• A problem solver
• Inquisitive
• Interested in business analysis
• Interested in project management
• Looking to develop and progress your career

Then please consider reviewing the job specification and applying for this exciting post.

What we can offer you

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

Join us

We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.

For an informal discussion, please contact Adam Lacey on 01164542282 or Adam.Lacey@Leicester.gov.uk

Assessments will take place on the 29th April with interviews the 7th May and 8th May