Senior Business Analyst to implement a Curriculum Management System (CMS) in the education sector.

Our client is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to implement a Curriculum Management System (CMS) in the education sector.

Must Have:

• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst
• Experience working in a post-secondary or public sector environment
• Process Modelling and / or Business optimization training and expertise
• Experience driving or participating in large change and transformation efforts, business optimization initiatives, assessments and reviews
• Workshop, facilitation or training experience and experience developing training documentation.
• Defines the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) strategy for projects; Leads the UAT associated with projects.
• Leads the Development of UAT test cases.

Nice to Have:

• Process Improvement certification
• Lean Six Sigma experience
• Technical knowledge for implementing enterprise management solutions

Description: Our client is implementing a Curriculum Management System (CMS) as it faces challenges with outdated manual curriculum processes that hinder efficiency and transparency.

Initiative outcomes include automating workflows, centralizing information, improving data-driven decisions, ensuring accreditation compliance, and enhancing administrative

efficiency. The initiative is designed to progress through three distinct phases over 24 months; at the conclusion of each phase a gate check will be conducted. A gate check will

encompass an assessment of the achieved outcomes including comprehensive recommendations and detailed plans for the subsequent phase. Phase I is discovery phase which

includes engaging with members of the campus community on current state to understand the process and identify opportunities for improvement, and developing business

requirements to support the assessment of technical solutions and future state design. Phase II is Request for Proposal where the project team will ensure a competitive process

occurs as UA explores available solutions in the market. Phase III is design and implementation of the selected solution. The estimated duration for phase I is six month, phase II is

six months, and phase III is one year.

Responsibilities:

• Define the specific list of business and process analysis deliverables that covers the scope of the project, identifying the stakeholders who will be part of the creation and validation

of each deliverable with Project Manager.

• Estimate and plan work independently with key stakeholder and project team.
• Drive strong stakeholder engagement with relationship building.
• Independently lead across campus process analysis and work with key stakeholders to provides business process re-engineering to support the CMS with standardized

methodologies.

• Documenting and/or updating current state business processes and Standard Operating Procedures (manual and system) for administration, departments and faculties.
• Complete current and future state time in motion studies on core business process activities to determine measurable benefits.
• Partner with key stakeholders to document business problems and identify process improvements that will create capacity and economies of scale
• Build out future state processes and standard operating procedures for administration, departments and faculties.
• Eliciting, gathering, verifying, validating and prioritizing business requirements with project partners, using future state processes.
• Identifying opportunities to streamline, automate and scale existing operations/services/systems to enable greater efficiency and effectiveness across project partners
• Assess stakeholder impacts brought about by changes or new business processes.
• Implementing change management strategies to support project partners navigate change.
• Maintaining a systems thinking approach considering broader impacts and institutional objectives in mind.
• Facilitate client's multistage Request for Proposal process with campus partners with the objective of finding the solution(s) that meet future state processes
• Work closely with project team members for prototyping, translating business processes, requirements to technical business rules and workflow.
• Facilitate design workshops and lead the implementation efforts for new CMS solution(s)
• Act as the liaison between business and technology staff, providing the business perspective in the analysis and design of future state solutions
• Creation of sustainment measuring and metrics, to ensure processes are working as intended or changes are documented for future implementation

Priority Requirements:

• Please describe to me your experience as a Business Analyst.
• Please describe to me your experience working in a post-secondary or public sector environment.
• Please describe to me your experience with developing and implementing organizational change management strategies.
• Please describe to me your experience driving or participating in large change and transformation efforts, business optimization initiatives, assessments, and reviews.