SLLC 4127 - Business Analyst

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Location: Council Headquarters, Almada Street, Hamilton

Hours: 21 hours per week (3 x 7 hour flexible days)

Salary Band: £25,336 - £25,895

Duration: Permanent

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We have an exciting opportunity within Strategy and Governance for a Business Analyst to join our team.

This is a role for someone with the passion, energy and vision for business analysis.

The successful candidate will report directly to the Governance and Compliance Manager, and the remit of this role will involve ensuring delivery of improved business efficiency and service delivery in line with the SLLC’s policies and strategies.

The post involves project managing the development and implementation of new initiatives to improve business efficiency and service delivery in line with SLLC’s policies and strategies; identifying and collecting key performance data and benchmarking; determining how the organisation is currently operating via research, including and collecting quantitative data and explore different solutions, their risks, benefits and impacts proposing solutions to managers; overseeing the quality management systems and customer satisfaction surveys and audits.

The ideal candidate will have track record of organisation wide delivery of improved business efficiency and service delivery along with strong interpersonal, and motivational skills along with an ability to clearly convey complex ideas, and to work collaboratively across a range of services and teams.

You will be a resilient self-starter and thinker with the energy, positive attitude and passion for developing strategy and delivering projects across the organisation with warmth, friendliness and individual pride.

Notes for Applicant

Application Questions

Please answer the questions below in a Word document which can then be attached to your application in the ‘Supported Documents' and URL section.

Please provide an example of a time when you have been involved in the delivery of improved business efficiency or a service delivery project or initiative you were responsible for delivering.

What were the challenges you faced during the period of the delivery and how did you overcome these?

How did you ensure that the initiative was delivered successfully and in line with the identified aims and outcomes?

Please note we do not accept CVs, any submitted will be disregarded. If you require to submit additional information to support your application, please upload this under supporting documents.

South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture SCIO is a Scottish charitable incorporated organisation responsible for the delivery of leisure and cultural activities on behalf of South Lanarkshire Council.

As an employee of South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture SCIO, you would also receive a wide range of benefits including:

• Enrolment in award winning local government pension scheme.
• To increase the value of their pension pot, employees can opt to join the Salary Sacrifice Shared Cost AVC scheme.
• Up to 33 days annual leave which will be calculated into hours on commencement of the role.
• Public holiday entitlement (up to 10 days)
• Occupational sick pay
• Family friendly policies - flexible working and leave, maternity/paternity leave, enhanced leave
• Employee Discounts – including discounts at the cinema
• Range of benefits to support you (Cycle to Work Scheme, Physiotherapy, Employee Assistance Program which offers practical and emotional support)

Please Apply online - All correspondence will be via your email address

Foreign Police Check - Candidates should be able to detail any gaps in employment and provide a foreign police check where applicable if you have lived or worked for 3 months or more (consecutively) abroad in the last 10 years.

Equal Opportunities and Armed Forces Community Covenant

South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture is an Equal Opportunities employer and encourages applications from all members of the community. As a user of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum competency/behaviour requirements for the position.

South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture is committed to providing support to members of the armed forces, veterans and their families which is set out in the British Armed Forces Community Covenant. Veterans are guaranteed an interview who meet the minimum requirements for the position.