Business Analyst - Legal Aid Agency (SC Cleared) at Sanderson Government and Defence, Multiple Locations, £Contract Rate

Business Analyst - Legal Aid Agency

Contract Type: Outside IR35
Start Date: 2nd November 2026
Initial End Date: 26th February 2027 (expected extension through a long-term programme running to 2030)
Location: Hybrid
Security Clearance: Active SC Clearance Required

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join a major transformation programme within the organisation's Legal Aid Agency. The role sits within a large-scale programme focused on improving and modernising the legal aid application process, covering two interconnected products that form the end-to-end user journey:

• The legal aid application process
• The decision-making and outcomes process

Working across both areas, the successful candidate will play a critical role in analysing current and future processes, identifying business needs, documenting requirements and supporting the delivery of user-centred services. You will work closely with Service Designers, User Researchers, Product Managers and delivery teams to ensure business requirements are clearly understood, prioritised and translated into actionable outcomes.

This is an excellent opportunity for a self-sufficient Business Analyst who is comfortable working within complex transformation programmes, engaging with stakeholders at all levels and bringing structure and clarity to evolving requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis activities across two interconnected legal aid application services.
• Elicit, document and manage business, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Analyse current processes, identify inefficiencies and recommend opportunities for improvement.
• Conduct as-is and to-be process mapping to support service transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate closely with Service Designers and User Researchers to ensure business requirements align with user needs and service objectives.
• Facilitate workshops, requirement gathering sessions and stakeholder interviews.
• Produce high-quality documentation including business requirements, process maps, user stories, acceptance criteria and impact assessments.
• Support backlog refinement and prioritisation activities within Agile delivery teams.
• Identify risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies and constraints across workstreams.
• Work with technical teams to ensure requirements are understood and implemented effectively.
• Support business readiness, change activities and stakeholder engagement throughout delivery.
• Ensure traceability between business needs, requirements, solutions and delivered outcomes.
• Champion evidence-based decision making and continuous improvement across the programme.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience operating as a Business Analyst within large-scale digital transformation programmes.
• Strong requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation skills.
• Demonstrable experience producing user stories, acceptance criteria and process documentation.
• Experience conducting business process analysis, process mapping and impact assessments.
• Strong stakeholder management and engagement skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience facilitating workshops and requirements gathering sessions.
• Ability to analyse complex business processes and translate them into clear requirements and recommendations.
• Experience working within Agile multidisciplinary delivery teams.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across multiple teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable Experience

• Experience working within UK Central Government or public sector organisations.
• Knowledge of Government Digital Service (GDS) standards and service delivery practices.
• Experience working on citizen-facing digital services.
• Understanding of legal, justice, case management or application-based services.
• Experience supporting service design and user-centred design approaches.

Tools & Environment

• MacBook provided
• Jira
• Confluence
• Miro
• Figma
• Agile multidisciplinary delivery team

Team Structure

You will work within a collaborative multidisciplinary team consisting of:

• Principal Service Designer
• Senior Service Designer
• User Research team (4 researchers)
• Product and Delivery colleagues
• Wider programme stakeholders and delivery teams

As there is only a limited delivery management function supporting the team, the successful candidate must be highly proactive, self-starting and comfortable managing their own workload while collaborating effectively with others

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will be a confident Business Analyst who combines excellent stakeholder engagement skills with strong analytical capability. You will be comfortable navigating ambiguity, managing complex requirements and working across multiple workstreams to drive delivery. Most importantly, you will be passionate about improving public services and ensuring business needs are translated into meaningful outcomes for users and the organisation.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

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