Position: Business Analyst
Company: Alinea
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

About the project:

In October 2019, Alinea International launched a new five-year project in Ukraine: Support Ukraine Reforms in Governance (SURGe). SURGe is a technical assistance project in Ukraine, funded by Global Affairs Canada and implemented by Alinea International Ltd.

SURGe’s Ultimate Outcome is to help the Government of Ukraine (GoU) to deliver governance and economic reforms that better respond to the needs of its citizens. To achieve this, the Project will strategically enhance and strengthen the GoU’s reform management functions, namely its capacity to undertake planning and analysis of reforms that consider citizen impact and to implement these reforms. 

Reform initiative and position summary:

The expert team assists the Ministry of Justice with the planning and implementation of the penitentiary reform, which aims to promote wider application of non-custodial measures to offenders who committed minor or medium gravity offences and to create proper conditions for the detention of convicts in penitentiary institutions promoting their rehabilitation and decreasing the risk of reoffending.

For this reform, SURGe Project is looking for a Business Analyst to provide consulting services to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on analysis of the possibility for implementation of the automated tools (incl. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions) for monitoring the operational activities, financial condition, and use of funds of prisons. 

The expert will be based in Kyiv and will be reporting to a Deputy Director (Legal) of the Project and the Deputy Minister responsible for this reform component.

Level of effort: full time, Monday-Friday. 

For contracting (after the job offer is made), the selected candidate is expected to be registered as a Private Entrepreneur of the 3d group (consultancy services).

Indicative duties and responsibilities (scope of work):

•	To conduct a review and create a catalog of the main business processes of the Penitentiary Service of Ukraine in terms of operational and financial activities, including identified their main participants, regulations, deadlines, tools used, bottlenecks, digitization opportunities, etc.
•	To analyze the appropriate international experience of using ERP class systems within Penitentiary services of other countries. 
•	To conduct a comparative analysis of the existing ERP solutions in terms of compliance with the needs of the Ministry of Justice and deadlines for implementation.
•	Prepare a Concept for the development of an ERP system within Penitentiary service of Ukraine to monitor the operational activities, financial condition, and use of funds of prisons, including a draft roadmap for implementation.
•	Prepare functional requirements for the creation of the system, which will be the basis for the preparation of the technical requirements for its creation.

Preferred qualifications and skills:

•	2+ years on business analytic position. 
•	Knowledge of BPMN and / or UML, practical experience of process description.
•	Experience of communication with clients (conducting a survey, requirements preparation).
•	Understanding the infrastructure elements used in building the target architecture of the solution (web-server, application server, database server, clusters, firewalls, AD, etc.).
•	Experience in preparation of the project documentation (concepts, functional requirements, technical requirements etc.).
•	Ability to define, understand and translate business requirements into technical specifications for software developers.
•	Experience working with task management systems (JIRA, Redmine, Git) and documentation (Confluence).