Digital business analyst

Job Information

Achieving for Children is a Community Interest Company that has a public sector ethos, combined with the freedom to innovate enabling us to do things differently. As a not-for-profit social enterprise owned by three local authorities (Windsor & Maidenhead, Kingston and Richmond), we offer the freedoms of a social enterprise with the employment benefits of local government. To find out more about us .

Digital Business Analyst

Achieving for Children is on a journey. Like many organisations, we're exploring how technology can support our people to work more effectively not to replace judgement or expertise, but to reduce friction, save time, and free up more space for the work that matters most. We are looking for a Digital Business Analyst to support that journey.

As a Digital Business Analyst, you'll work across a range of service optimisation projects within the Digital & Technology team. Your core focus will be understanding what our people and services need then translating that into clear, actionable digital requirements. That means engaging stakeholders, writing technical documentation, and leading user acceptance testing, with the specific mix varying by project.

Day-to-day, you'll use a range of elicitation techniques to gather business requirements and communicate them in a way that technical teams can act on. You'll be equally comfortable in a workshop with frontline staff as you are reviewing documentation with a developer. You'll work across a diverse group of stakeholders, employees, partner organisations, and service users so strong written and verbal communication skills are essential.

About the role

We work in an agile, multidisciplinary way, and you'll typically be contributing to one or more projects at a time. If you enjoy working openly, collaboratively, and with a genuine focus on outcomes, you'll fit right in.

Responsibilities will include:

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Matthew Bond via email:

About you

About our benefits

We are focused on creating a positive supportive environment, where you will have access to a really wide range of resources, as well as a competitive salary and all the perks to enable hybrid working. In AfC you will also have access to:

To find out about all of the breadth of benefits of working for Achieving for Children . For our social work offer . For our Recruitment Journey,

Important Information

Start dates: Achieving for Children have meaning successful candidates join on a set date in each month. Candidates are advised to prepare for this should a job offer be accepted to ensure eligible continuous service is not affected.

Right to work: The UK has introduced a new points-based immigration system affecting EU and Non-EU workers and sponsorship requirements. We advise checking the for right to work guidance.

Equality: We particularly welcome applications from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our teams. Achieving for Children are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions and can improve the way we deliver services. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

Safeguarding: We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Therefore, it is strongly advised that you complete and return your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.