Business Analyst – Senior
- Pay Rate: Flexible- Onsite
- Location: Toronto, Ontario
- Contract Length: 11 Months
We at Raise are hiring right now for one of our Clients. If you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Responsibilities:
· Build trusted working relationships with ministry partners, subject-matter experts, project teams, leaders, and end users.
· Plan and facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, interviews, meetings, and working groups to gather information and build agreement.
· Document current-state training practices, processes, workflows, roles, tools, pain points, and business requirements.
· Analyse stakeholder input and supporting information to identify gaps, improvement opportunities, risks, dependencies, and readiness considerations.
· Synthesize large volumes of information into clear findings, practical options, recommendations, and decisions for project and executive leadership.
· Define future-state training processes and support ministries in moving from current practices to the new training and operating model.
· Develop transition plans, implementation roadmaps, stakeholder-impact assessments, change-adoption strategies, mitigation measures, and progress indicators.
· Create and maintain training materials, user guides, facilitator guides, reference documents, process maps, job aids, frequently asked questions, and standard operating procedures.
· Ensure training and operational content aligns with organizational standards, approved processes, business objectives, accessibility requirements, and audience needs.
· Deliver training, demonstrations, coaching, knowledge-transfer activities, and train-the-trainer sessions to ministry stakeholders and end users.
· Provide post-implementation support, respond to questions, troubleshoot adoption issues, and recommend adjustments based on feedback and observed outcomes.
· Monitor adoption progress and maintain documentation throughout implementation and post-launch support.
· Prepare executive summaries, briefing notes, presentations, status reports, risk updates, and recommendations.
· Communicate complex findings, implementation progress, risks, and required decisions in a concise and actionable manner.
Skills
Experience and Skill Set Requirements
Stakeholder Engagement and Facilitation – 25%
· Experience engaging diverse ministry stakeholders and building productive relationships across organizational boundaries.
· Experience facilitating workshops, discovery sessions, interviews, working groups, and consensus-based discussions.
· Ability to establish trust and communicate effectively with executives, managers, subject-matter experts, and front-line staff.
Business Analysis and Assessment – 25%
· Experience gathering requirements, mapping processes, identifying pain points, and assessing impacts, risks, dependencies, and readiness.
· Ability to synthesize ambiguous or high-volume information into clear findings, practical options, and implementable recommendations.
· Strong critical-thinking, problem-solving, and independent work-management skills.
Training Development and Delivery – 25%
· Experience developing polished training materials, user guides, process maps, job aids, frequently asked questions, and standard operating procedures.
· Experience delivering training, coaching, knowledge transfer, and train-the-trainer sessions.
· Ability to translate complex business processes into clear, accessible, and audience-appropriate content.
Change Management, Communications, and Adoption – 25%
· Experience developing transition plans, implementation roadmaps, change strategies, stakeholder-impact assessments, and adoption measures.
· Experience providing post-implementation support, monitoring adoption, gathering feedback, and refining training and transition approaches.
· Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and executive-communication skills, with a focus on sustained business outcomes.
Experience:
· Experience leading business analysis, organizational change, training, or transformation activities across multiple ministries, programs, or complex stakeholder groups.
· Experience engaging executives, managers, subject-matter experts, operational staff, and end users to understand current practices, challenges, business needs, and readiness for change.
· Experience facilitating workshops, discovery sessions, interviews, working groups, and decision-making discussions that build consensus and produce actionable outcomes.
· Experience documenting and analysing current-state training processes, workflows, roles, pain points, gaps, and dependencies.
· Experience assessing business impacts, stakeholder impacts, risks, dependencies, readiness, and barriers to adoption.
· Experience developing future-state processes, transition plans, implementation roadmaps, change strategies, adoption measures, and mitigation approaches.
· Experience creating training curricula, presentation materials, facilitator guides, user guides, reference documents, process maps, job aids, frequently asked questions, and standard operating procedures.
· Experience translating complex processes, policies, and technical information into clear, concise, user-friendly content for different audiences.
· Experience delivering instructor-led or virtual training, demonstrations, knowledge-transfer sessions, coaching, and train-the-trainer activities.
· Experience providing post-implementation support, gathering feedback, troubleshooting adoption issues, and improving training content and delivery methods.
· Experience preparing executive summaries, briefing materials, presentations, recommendations, status updates, and implementation reporting.
· Experience managing competing priorities, working independently with limited direction, and producing polished deliverables within established timelines.
Must Have:
· Experience engaging diverse ministry stakeholders and building productive relationships across organizational boundaries.
· Experience facilitating workshops, discovery sessions, interviews, working groups, and consensus-based discussions.
· Experience gathering requirements, mapping processes, identifying pain points, and assessing impacts, risks, dependencies, and readiness.
· Experience developing transition plans, implementation roadmaps, change strategies, stakeholder-impact assessments, and adoption measures.
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