AMS PSR

On behalf of EANI, we are looking for a Business Analyst (Inside IR35)  for a contract which is running until the end of March 2026 and is a hybrid role, up to 2 days a month, various sites including Antrim, Belfast, Dundonald, Armagh and Omagh

EA was established on 1 April 2015 under the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 2014. EA is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department of Education (DE) and the Department for the Economy (DfE), responsible for ensuring that efficient and effective primary and secondary education and educational services are available to meet the needs of children and young people, and for ensuring the provision of efficient and effective youth services.

The role supports a Preschool Standardisation Programme, which involves coordination across multiple internal teams including transport, catering, and other operational streams. The programme is complex and data-heavy, requiring structured documentation and process clarity.

As a Business Analyst, your main responsibilities will be:

• Act as a Business Analyst to document and break down existing processes.
• Handle large volumes of data from various sources to support decision-making.
• Good process mapping skills to ensure alignment and progress tracking.
• Should be confident and proactive, capable of working independently without an existing team.
• Should bring a wealth of experience and be able to translate technical details into clear user stories.
• Ability to guide stakeholders and ensure the programme stays on track.

Essential Skills

• Extensive experience in BA in complex projects at great place
• Have demonstrable experience of using a range of investigation techniques including document analysis, workshop facilitation, and analysis tools to define business problems/requirements.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement at all levels
• Own transport is an essential requirement for this role
• Strong self starter with a proactive approach to all duties

Desirable Skills

• Education experience/ preschool background would be highly beneficial

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

EANI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".