Job Specifications
Join us as a Business Analyst at Thirteen Group!
Role Overview
Thirteen Group is on the lookout for a Business Analyst to join our Transformation and Change team on a fixed term contract for 16 months.
You'll deliver discovery and analysis activity that supports our Change and Transformation programmes. Working with stakeholders, you'll understand problems, capture requirements and help define solutions that deliver measurable customer and business value.
This is a hybrid role, so you can work from home and at least 2 - 3 days a week from our fantastic office at Hudson Quay in Middlesbrough. We’ll need you to be flexible around business and team need, so you may need to come into the office more frequently when required
Thirteen Benefits
Salary £45,920 per annum
Annual leave starting at 28 days and rising to 31 days after three years, a day off for your birthday, plus bank holidays.
Pension up to 17% contributions (flexible contribution rates of up to 7% colleague and up to 10% employer).
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Opportunities to buy and sell annual leave.
Key Responsibilities
Lead business analysis for change initiatives, capturing business needs, understanding problems and opportunities, and translating them into clear, actionable requirements.
Plan and facilitate workshops, interviews, and research activities to gather insight, evidence, and stakeholder perspectives that shape discovery outputs.
Document and analyse business processes, identifying improvement opportunities, challenging existing practices, and contributing to the development of business cases and solution options.
Translate requirements into user stories or specifications, supporting service design, customer journey mapping, and collaborative design approaches.
Support solution delivery and validation, working with project teams to ensure testing, quality assurance, and final outputs meet requirements and deliver value.
Apply and improve business analysis practice, building strong relationships, using consistent methods and tools, sharing lessons learned, and collaborating with colleagues across the organisation.
About You
You’ll bring relevant business analysis qualifications or equivalent experience, with certifications such as BCS or Agile BA considered an advantage.
Strong analytical skills and experience using business analysis techniques to capture requirements and shape effective solutions.
You'll understand requirements management, process mapping, and business case development, applying these confidently in your work.
Fantastic communication skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders to gather insight and feedback.
The ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams, contributing to a positive and productive project environment.
You'll take a structured, methodical approach to analysis, ensuring consistency, clarity, and high standards in everything you deliver.
Why Thirteen Group?
We’re more than just a housing association we’re a community builder. As the largest housing association in the North East and among the top 25 nationally, we manage over 36,000 homes.
Join a team that’s local at heart but welcomes talent from everywhere.
Be part of an organisation that values diversity and inclusivity.
Be a part of a company that offers tailored support services, going beyond just housing solutions.
Interested?
For more details, please refer to the attached documents.
If you’d like to talk more about the role please contact Samantha Cook, Change and Business Analysis Manager on 01642 947433 for an informal discussion.
NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES, please.
Are You Ready for a Rewarding Challenge?
Join us at Thirteen Group and be a part of our vision to improve lives every day. APPLY NOW and start your journey towards making a meaningful impact in our community!
As part of our hiring process, if you’re successful we’ll need to verify your right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not a Skilled Worker Sponsoring Employer at this time.
This role has the potential to be made permanent
For internal candidates: If you'd like to request this fixed term opportunity on a secondment basis, please seek your current manager's approval before applying
About the Company
At Thirteen we are a caring landlord and housing developer, owning and managing over 36,000 homes across North East, Yorkshire and Humber regions.
Whether it's a home to rent or buy, we have a range of properties to suit all needs. We provide quality homes for rent and sale, offering a variety of affordable options to suit a range of circumstances.
But we're not just about providing and building homes. We offer a range of housing support services including money advice, routes into skills and employment, schemes to help pe...
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