Position Details

• Fixed Term until December 2025 | Full-Time
• Higher Education Officer Level 8 | $110,581 - $122,420 a.
• Location: Bedford Park / Kaurna Country
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About the Role

The Business Analyst will support various activities across education and student-focused projects, including process modelling, data analysis, reporting, and business requirements gathering.

We are looking for someone with strong business engagement and documentation experience, with a focus on delivering practical, sustainable solutions and identifying new ways of working.

In addition to the above, the Business Analyst will also:

• Develop and deliver written and visual models of current and future-state business process using a variety of tools and techniques to engage business, process and system owners.
• Independently apply a variety of strategies to gather, review, prioritise and analyse business processes and requirements.
• Identify, define, track, and optimise intended and realised benefits and leading the development of business cases, initiation documents, change requests and reports.
  
  

About You

To be successful in this position, you will bring demonstrated experience in business analysis, with a proven ability to gather, review, and prioritise business requirements using a range of different approaches.

A strong background in stakeholder engagement and management will be required, with a proven ability to work with people from all levels of an organisation by being professional, adaptable, and reliable. You will demonstrate the ability to make independent decisions, take initiative, and proactively contribute to the identification and development of business recommendations.

To be successful in this role, you will also demonstrate:

• Visual communication evident through a demonstrated capacity to design and present clear and concise summaries of complex information.
• Demonstrated ability applying a variety of strategies to gather, review, prioritise and analyse business requirements.
• Experience in the identification and tracking of business benefits within a complex service environment.
  
  

Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Students)

The Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Students) provides administrative support to key strategic and operational functions of the University's student-related and academic services. Under the general portfolio, the Office team support Portfolio leadership and facilitate dialogue between key service areas to help the Portfolio ensure Flinders' educational offerings are innovative, of assured quality, and are student centred. This drives our values and ethos, our impact and engagement, and our vision to be internationally recognised as a world leader in research, an innovator in contemporary education, and the source of Australia's most enterprising graduates.

Life at Flinders

We're transforming and investing in people and facilities to create contemporary, stimulating, and satisfying learning and work environments that reflect our core values of excellence, innovation, courage, and integrity. Flinders is refocusing its strategic priorities with the aim of elevating its performance to be a top ten Australian university, and amongst the top 1% in the world.

Reaching beyond the limits of buildings, borders, and backgrounds, ours is an inclusive culture that believes absolutely in equality and opportunity for all. We don't just accommodate differences; we embrace and celebrate them. So, why work at Flinders?

• 17% Superannuation + salary packaging options
• Flexible working arrangements
• Wide range of professional development activities and services
• We embrace diversity and promote equity and inclusion for all students and staff
• Vibrant campus life and amenities including on campus health care services, gymand childcare centre (Bedford Park, South Australia).
  
  

Prescribed Conditions for Employment

• A valid Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check which is satisfactory to the University will also be required before the successful applicant can commence in this position.
  
  

How to Apply and Information

• To apply online, please visit the Jobs@Flinders website via the job portal: JR0000013577 Business Analyst
• You are required to submit Suitability Statement of no more than 3 pages, addressing the below five Key Position Capabilities of the position description.
  • Demonstrated ability applying a variety of strategies to gather, review, prioritise and analyse business requirements.
  • Demonstrated high level oral and written communication, including experience in developing quality documentation in a variety of formats for use by process designers, decision makers and end users representing a range of academic, professional staff and student perspectives.
  • Demonstrated ability to earn the trust of sponsors and facilitate stakeholder partnerships through high level judgement, adaptability and high levels of professionalism.
  • Resilience demonstrated through a proven ability to adapt process, methods and requirements to meet strict and sometimes conflicting deadlines.
  • Experience operating in traditional and agile project teams across both business and technical subject matter experts.
• For more information regarding this position, we strongly encourage you to contact Michelle Berrigan.
• Please see here for our Reconciliation Action Plan.
• Please see here for our Indigenous Workforce Strategy.
  
  

Applications to be submitted before 10:00 pm (ACDT) Sunday, 1 June 2025

Please note, late applications and applications sent via agencies will not be accepted.

At Flinders we embrace and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

Desired Skills and Experience

Lead business analysis for education projects, focusing on enhancing processes, improving data insights, and driving overall operational efficiency.