Business Analyst

**Term: Temporary, Full-Time (ending March 2027)**
**Work Location: Hybrid, Vancouver B.C. (a combination of in-office and remote work)**
**Expected Start Date: June 2025**

**Who we are**

Inspire Global Assessments (Inspire), formally known as the Nursing Community Assessment Services (NCAS), is a branded service of the BC College of Nurses and Midwives. We’re working with nursing regulators and governments across the country to address the acute nursing shortage. Inspire is a unique assessment service that supports the transition of internationally educated health care professionals into the global work force.

The British Columbia College of Nurses & Midwives (“BCCNM”) is the college empowered under the Health Professions Act to regulate the practice of all licensed practical nurses, nurse practitioners, registered midwives, registered nurses, and registered psychiatric nurses in British Columbia. Regulation helps to protect the public by ensuring that professional care or service received by the public is competent, ethical, and meets the standards that society views as acceptable.

**BCCNM’s commitment to Indigenous Specific Anti-Racism**

BCCNM is committed to working with Indigenous Peoples and health system partners to support Indigenous-specific anti-racist practices in the health system. As the largest health regulator in Western Canada, BCCNM has the opportunity to influence the health professionals we regulate, as well as the broader health-care system, to break the cycle of racism, and improve health outcomes for Indigenous Peoples. BCCNM has pledged to become culturally safe and anti-racist, and to support the health professionals we regulate to do the same.

**What we offer you**

We promise to provide you with rewarding work that challenges you. You will be part of a passionate team contributing to our important mandate of protecting the public. As a member of the team, you can expect to be working in a collaborative, team-based environment, and treated in a respectful and professional manner.

The expected starting base salary for this position is $85,000 - $99,000 annually, depending on a variety of factors including qualifications and experience.

**What you’ll be doing**:
The Business Analyst (BA) works with the competency virtualization project team to understand the context and to evaluate current and expected needs. In using data and information collected from the elicitation and requirements gathering process, the BA supports the project throughout its entire life cycle by providing end to end documentation, including requirements gathering, traceability matrix, process mapping, data analysis, and data visualization. This role translates large data set into useable information, distinguishing between technical and business requirements, and connects project outcomes to business goals.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Under the direction of the Project Lead, works collaboratively on building out project documents and ensuring they stay up to date and follow governance process.
- Establishes and initiates the appropriate scope for elicitation activities, selecting the most effective techniques, secures supporting materials, prepares stakeholders for engagement and conducts elicitation sessions and correctly captures the results obtained and confirms the results accurately reflects stakeholders’ expectation.
- Specifies and models requirements and designs by preparing accurate and detailed business requirements documents (BRDs), wireframes and mock-ups for efficient prototype, and functional and non-functional specification documents, e.g. business process flowcharts, as per team standards and collected elicitation results; actively participates as a core member in solutioning process to facilitate and document the solution options per project team’s agreement; verifies documented requirements and designs with the business process owners or SMEs for signoff; follows a standard approach to identify and close document gaps for business requirements.
- In consultation with SMEs, creates and manages requirements, leads and prioritizes item grooming sessions, and identifies the priority; translates product items into user stories; for technology enabled processes, works closely with Senior Business System Analysts and developers to ensure they are fully aware of and understand the business requirements for system design and testing purpose.
- Sets up solution acceptance criteria; validates outputs and reviews the impact of implemented resolutions over time by gathering and analyzing user feedback to ensure all requirements and designs align with business requirements and support the delivery of the needed value.
- Oversees the Requirement Life-Cycle Management from inception to retirement by managing the requirements’ tractability, maintenance, prioritization, change assessment, approval, and retirement.
- In consultation with a Project Lead, facilitates the ongoing collaboration with the stak