Business Analyst (110161-0225)

Location

University of Warwick Campus, Coventry

Department

Development & Alumni Engagement

Position Type

Permanent

Salary

£34,866 - £45,163 per annum

About the Role

For informal enquiries, please contact Steve Walsh (Information Systems Manager) at steve.walsh@warwick.ac.uk

To provide business analysis for Development and Alumni Engagement (DAE) to help the Department achieve their strategic objectives through the implementation of effective systems and processes.

We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.

About You

We are looking for a business analyst to join our growing Systems and Insight team within Development and Alumni Engagement (DAE) at Warwick. The successful candidate will play an important role in enabling the work of the DAE team in preparation for a major new institutional fundraising campaign.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a Business Analyst mindset to contribute to a world-leading University and help the DAE team optimise its processes and systems. We're looking for someone who is ready to make a truly impactful contribution during a transformational time at Warwick.

Typical tasks for a Business Analyst will include gathering and analysing business requirements, pain points, improvement opportunities and proposed solutions, facilitating workshops, capturing the voice and needs of the end user, understanding our service performance metrics, designing and documenting future processes, supporting solution design and participating in testing. You may also be called upon to deep-dive ad-hoc business problems, identify root causes and recommend appropriate solutions.

You will work within the Systems (data) team and liaise with stakeholders at all levels across the DAE team, to support the initial assessment of requirements with a focus on process analysis, to enable effective project scoping and prioritisation. You will work closely with project managers to help articulate desired project goals and benefits, define current and target states, elicit requirements, evaluate options and feasibility, and propose recommendations. You will also support project delivery activities, ensuring that solutions meet end user requirements.

Prior experience as a Business Analyst is not essential but you must be able to demonstrate evidence of strong analytical skills, the ability to capture and analyse complex information and a track record in championing change and the needs of the end user.

For further information regarding the skills required for this role please see the personal specification section of the attached job description.

About the Department

Meet the team and find further information about Development & Alumni Engagement on our microsite.

Be Part of Our Future

This is an exciting time to be joining the Development and Alumni Engagement Team (DAE) at the University of Warwick. We're entering the early planning stages of a major new philanthropic campaign, which will significantly scale the ambition for the University's fundraising and engagement activity.
As a team, we in DAE believe in making a difference, collaborating, being solutions focused, and learning from our best performances. These behaviours are core to how we work together and how we achieve our ambitious strategy and celebrate our success.
We have a major role to play in helping the University break down barriers to education and advance research. Our team, and donor community creates lasting value in society and the economy through supporting students, research, and facilities at Warwick.

If you join us, you can play your part in making a real difference too.

About the University

Born in the 60s with a mindset of boldness, imagination and collaboration, the University of Warwick is a world-leading research-intensive university with the highest academic and research standards. We're one of the world's top universities, ranked 67th in the world and 10th in the UK*, with 92% of our research assessed to be 'world leading or internationally excellent'**.

You'll be joining a diverse, innovative and globally connected community committed to igniting real world progress. Here at Warwick, we offer you opportunities to follow your ambitions as long as you bring the energy and determination to succeed.

*QS World University Rankings 2024

** Research Excellence Framework 2021

To find out more about us visit our website.

How to Apply

CLOSING DATE: Sunday 30th March 2025 at 11.55pm

To apply, please click 'Apply' below and submit an application form by the closing date. Please plan for any potential delays as you will not be able to submit an application past this deadline (even if you opened the form at, say, 11.30pm).

Please attach a CV and cover letter.

Your CV should include your most recent employment experience, any other relevant experience, and education history.

Your cover letter must detail how you meet each of the essential criteria found in the Job Description document below (desirable criteria too, where possible).

Please see here for guidance on writing a cover letter. We highly recommend using individual criteria as headers and giving examples below, though you are free to format the letter as you wish.

To streamline our hiring processes, we can only accept applications via our official website, warwick-careers.tal.net.

Interview Date: 8th April 2025

Start Date: TBC

What we Offer

We will provide you with a great range of benefits, which include an attractive pension scheme, 30 days holiday plus Christmas closure, excellent learning and development opportunities, and savings on a wide range of products and services. We offer a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, and onsite childcare facilities.

We recognise the importance of a healthy work/life balance and offer you access to flexible working, for more information click here .

We are proud to say that we are a Living Wage employer .

If you are considering relocating to the UK, read our Relocation Guide to find out more about what Warwick has to offer and what might be involved in the process.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.

We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpages here .

The University currently holds a Race Equality Charter Bronze Award , Athena Swan Sliver Award and a Disability Smart Bronze Award . The University of Warwick is also one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University Alliance .

Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS)

The University of Warwick is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all those we work with.

In line with the DBS Code of Practice, the successful candidates for any roles involving regulated activity, will be subject to a DBS check at the appropriate level. The University will take all necessary measures to ensure that any individual subject to a barring order does not undertake any work with the barred group specified (i.e. children and/or adults).

We expect all employees, volunteers, and partners to share our commitment to safeguarding.

Rehabilitation of Ex-Offenders

The University undertakes not to discriminate against anyone who makes a disclosure relating to a conviction. The information disclosed at application stage is only visible to the central DBS team (i.e. not recruiting managers) to ensure there is no bias during the shortlisting process.

Job Description

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Right to Work in the UK

We wish to advise applicants that this role is not eligible for sponsorship for a Skilled Worker visa. If you do not yet have the right to work in the UK you will need to check the UK Government Website to see if you are eligible to obtain the right to work in the UK through one of the other UK immigration routes before you make your application.