Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst
Location: Baltimore MD (LOCALS ONLY)
Duration: Long Term Contract

Mandatory Requirements

Skills Required:

• Demonstrated prior experience successfully eliciting and documenting business processes.
• Demonstrated prior experience analyzing business processes and recommending improvements.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with experience preparing presentations for
• executives and other
• senior stakeholders
• Strong skills in preparing meaningful and easily understood process diagrams using standard diagramming software
• such as Microsoft Visio
• Basic project management skills and experience preferred.
• Familiarity with Google Workspace (formerly GSuite) collaborative productivity tools preferred
• Education Bachelors degree in a relevant field
• A minimum of five years experience working as a business analyst at an organization where IT was the main product/service

Responsibilities and Tasks

The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) is looking to hire a temporary employee for six (6) months that meets the job specifications below.

• Interviewing various process stakeholders to understand MSDE processes and the business
• requirements which drive them
• Documenting existing MSDE processes and procedures with diagrams and written descriptions
• Identifying gaps in business operations where no formal or consistent process exists
• Analyzing processes and recommending improvements or architecting new processes which address any identified gaps and increases process efficiency and effectiveness (business process improvement)
• Presenting findings recommendations and work products to various stakeholders and groups within MSDE Qualifications