Business Analyst

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 64713
Ministry: Justice
Location: Calgary
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: November 28, 2024
Classification: PS3 Market adjustment

**Salary**: $2,626.89 to $3,448.73 bi-weekly ($68,561 - $90,011/year)

The Alberta Crown Prosecution Service (ACPS) prosecutes persons charged with Criminal Code, Youth Criminal Justice Act, and provincial statute offences. The ACPS promotes safe communities by vigorously prosecuting cases involving serious and violent crime and working with individuals and organizations in the community to identify and implement improved and alternative approaches to the administration of criminal justice.

The Business Analyst (BA) position resides within the Strategy and Innovation Unit of the Operations and Strategic Support Office (OSSO) in the ACPS. OSSO coordinates and collaborates across the division, the ministry, and beyond to ensure prosecutors always have their best day in court, and that the prosecution service as a whole is strategically positioned to achieve just outcomes through fair, fearless, and independent prosecutions.

**Role Responsibilities**:
As a member of the Business Analysis team, reporting directly to the Manager of Strategic Initiatives and Reporting. **Your key responsibilities are**:

- Providing a range of business analysis services for internal and external stakeholders.
- Leading, participating and contributing to projects.
- Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure seamless integration of technological solutions, keeping in mind the unique demands of legal proceedings and maintaining the highest standards of data security.
- Possessing overall knowledge of Ministry programs and services, process and the flow of matters through the court, justice and legal systems, in particular emphasis on business process improvement and redesign.
- Performing problem tracking, risk analysis, root cause analysis to help lead and influence project teams to follow a structured approach to projects.
- Strong business analysis and change management skills and have the ability to anticipate needs and proactively gather information.
- Strong Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Working knowledge of Visio or other modeling tools.
- Working Knowledge of Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft OneNote.
- Experience with process modeling techniques and methodologies.

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**APS Competencies**:
Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in
- depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

Build Collaborative Environments: Leads and contributes to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes.

Creative Problem Solving: Ability to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions.

Systems Thinking: The work done within the APS is part of a larger integrated and inter-related environment. It is important to know that work done in one part of the APS impacts a variety of other groups/projects inside and outside the APS. Systems Thinking allows us to keep broader impacts and connections in mind.

Agility: Ability to anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities, manage resilience in times of uncertainty and effectively work in a changing environment.

Drive for Results: Knowing what outcomes are important and maximizing resources to achieve results that are aligned with the goals of the organization while maintaining accountability to each other and external stakeholders.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
**Qualifications**:
University degree in a related field such as Business Administration, Criminal Justice or Computer Science or in a related field supplemented by a minimum of **two (2) years** of progressively responsible related experience in business analyst role is required.

**Equivalency**: Directly related experience or education considered on the basis of one year of experience for one year of education or one year of education for one year of experience.

**Required**
- Previous experience in delivering training on business processes.
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills
- Strong knowledge of change management, quality assurance, information management and implementation planning and integration activities.

**Preference will be given to individuals with**:

- Completion of or enrollment in a Business Analysis Certification program from an accredited institution.
- Membership in the International Institute of Business Analysis.
- Strong understanding of system development lifecycle.
- Overall knowledge of Ministry programs and services process and the flow of