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Business Analyst/Project Manager/Product Owner

by OliviaB367 / Wednesday, 19 June 2019 / Published in Blog

Permanent, Full time

Last Application, 10 July, 19

Immediate Start, Competitive Package

Learning Possibilities is a social enterprise and a global leader in learning and collaboration platforms for schools. We have a Global Alliance with Microsoft delivering cloud based e-learning solutions on Azure and Office 365 .

This is a new role to work with key customer and internal stakeholders to define business requirements and manage the product and solution roadmap. The role may require international travel and close working with the companies international offices.

Key Responsibilities:

-Ensure agreement and understanding of the requirements across various stakeholder groups

-Assume responsibility to collect, document and analyse business requirements for assigned activities.

-Managing and directing business process mapping workshops that support project deliverables.

-Transcribing, reviewing and taking ownership of business process diagrams for workstreams.

-Scoping and defining high-level requirements. Subsequently developing detailed Business Requirements and Functional Specifications.

-Establishing the specifics of moving the capability into the production environment including design of any testing, training, user documentation and other support materials as required.

-Driving out solutions with IT/ development for partners

-Driving outcomes initiated by requirements

-Working within an Agile Project delivery framework.

Key Skills:

-Experience as business BA, being liaison with IT teams to provide requirements, clarify requirements, party to resolving development issues

-Manage activities for delivery using a project planning tools

-Understand and is able to follow project management activities and responsibilities

-Track record working as a business analyst within the Education sector

-Going beyond the role of Requirement Gatherer’ striving to create clarity on the solution, proactive planning, and a creative flair to solve problems.

-Ability to manage relationships across the business & IT

-Demonstrable experience of business analysis skills throughout the entire project life cycle

-Ability to rapidly grasp, interpret and clearly articulate business requirements.

-Highly experienced in analysing and documenting business requirements, process maps (customer/systems) and traceability matrices

-Comfortable conveying technical concepts to business & change stakeholders

-The confidence and ability to structure, summarise and present recommendations

-The confidence and ability to challenge something in a constructive way

-Ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization

-Ability to work effectively autonomously and as part of a team

-Professional and well organised with the ability and flexibility to manage shifting priorities

-Experience of working alongside 3rd party vendors/consultants and offshore

-Own resolution of business analysis issues, identifying and managing mitigating actions against design risks

 

To apply or find out more about the role please email your CV and covering letter to careers@lpplus.com.

No Agencies please.

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About Learning Possibilities

1. Team

Learning Possibilities has built a world class team that has over 100 years edtech experience. The team is Chaired by the Prof of Learning and Innovation – Stephen Heppell, and led by Dr Mehool Sanghrajka, who led significant education businesses at two FTSE250 companies prior to founding Learning Possibilities. Other key members include Mandeep Dhillon, formerly of Close Brothers, where he led transformation and delivery; and Vishaal Shah who has a decade of finance and investment experience.
For details see: Teams

2. Pedagogy

Our LP+ Learning and Collaboration platform was created in 2005 in partnership with Microsoft, Dell and Intel. It has pedagogy at its heart, and from the outset was designed to drive transformation and create new models of education. In 2010, Learning Possibilities published its pedagogical framework – ADOPT – which was selected as the UK’s National Learning Platform Adoption Model, by the UK Department for Education.
For details, see: The Adopt Framework

3. Innovation

The LP+365 has been at the forefront of innovation in driving online teaching and learning, and has been recognised through several awards including the prestigious BETT Award, 2 Education Investor Awards, and 2 Microsoft Global Partner of the Year Runner-Up  (Education) Awards.  We have also Microsoft’s Global Partner in Education.
For details, see: Awards

4. Scale

The LP+365 platform was designed for School Districts and Governments, and built to securely scale through both private and public clouds. The platform has been used by over 600,000 learners in Wales for over six years ( https://lpplus.com/wales-showcase/ ), where the Minister of Education called LP+ a ‘world class platform’. In developing country examples, Learning Possibilities is currently working on a 25m learner project in the Philippines. ( https://lpplus.com/philippines-showcase/ ).
For details, see: Wales Showcase

5. Impact

Learning Possibilities is a ‘social enterprise’ focused on the impact of its work. We publish details of our major studies, including Prof. Don Passey’s (Lancaster University) independent evaluation of the LP+ platform, and the Welsh Government’s report of Learning in Digital Wales.
For details, see: Research

About Learning Possibilities

About Learning Possibilities

1. Team
Learning Possibilities has built a world class team that has over 100 years edtech experience. The team is Chaired by the Prof of Learning and Innovation – Stephen Heppell, and led by Dr Mehool Sanghrajka, who led significant education businesses at two FTSE250 companies prior to founding Learning Possibilities. Other key members include Mandeep Dhillon, formerly of Close Brothers, where he led transformation and delivery; and Vishaal Shah who has a decade of finance and investment experience.
For details see: Team

2. Pedagogy
Our LP+ Learning and Collaboration platform was created in 2005 in partnership with Microsoft, Dell and Intel. It has pedagogy at its heart, and from the outset was designed to drive transformation and create new models of education. In 2010, Learning Possibilities published its pedagogical framework – ADOPT – which was selected as the UK’s National Learning Platform Adoption Model, by the UK Department for Education.
For details, see: https://lpplus.com/the-adopt-framework/ Adopt Framework

3. Innovation
The LP+365 has been at the forefront of innovation in driving online teaching and learning, and has been recognised through several awards including the prestigious BETT Award, 2 Education Investor Awards, and 2 Microsoft Global Partner of the Year Runner-Up  (Education) Awards.  We have also Microsoft’s Global Partner in Education.
For details, see: https://lpplus.com/about/awards/

4. Scale
The LP+365 platform was designed for School Districts and Governments, and built to securely scale through both private and public clouds. The platform has been used by over 600,000 learners in Wales for over six years ( https://lpplus.com/wales-showcase/ ), where the Minister of Education called LP+ a ‘world class platform’. In developing country examples, Learning Possibilities is currently working on a 25m learner project in the Philippines. ( https://lpplus.com/philippines-showcase/ ).
For details, see https://lpplus.com/wales-showcase/

5. Impact
Learning Possibilities is a ‘social enterprise’ focused on the impact of its work. We publish details of our major studies, including Prof. Don Passey’s (Lancaster University) independent evaluation of the LP+ platform, and the Welsh Government’s report of Learning in Digital Wales.
For details, see: https://lpplus.com/education/research/