Oregon State University
Location
Corvallis, OR | United States
Job description
Internal Job Number: P07812UF
Description:
The Office of the Vice President of Finance and Administration is seeking up to four Business Analysts. These are full-time (1.00 FTE ), 12-month, professional faculty positions. These positions are anticipated to last approximately two years with the potential to extend.
Oregon State University is actively engaged in several strategic initiatives, including projects that support business processes, information technology, and teaching/research activities. The Business Analyst (BA) works as a member of the Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Office and operates within EPPMO guidance and best practices to engage with diverse groups of project stakeholders, subject matter experts, and process users to identify, define, and document business needs to find solutions, make process and technology performance improvements, and plan and manage organizational change. The BA will be able to understand and identify business problems and opportunities, assess the capabilities to carry out change, determine feasible solutions, etc.EPPMO BA assignments are focused on highly complex, enterprise-wide projects and initiatives for OSU . The BA partners with EPPMO PMs to lead the development and implementation of complex projects to solve problems that may have wide impact, requiring high levels of functional integration and involving multiple disciplines to be managed. The BA may support numerous IT, business, and research/teaching projects simultaneously. In collaboration with the EPPMO PM, the BA is responsible to support designing, planning, implementing, managing, and measuring / tracking success for one or more strategic, complex projects often involving multiple functions, and/or information technologies that serve to enable a variety of business strategies and goals, which can span across the entire University or major portions of it. The strategies and implementations of each project will adhere to EPPMO standards and processes.
This position will play a pivotal role in ensuring understanding of business requirements. The BA will elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the business needs of stakeholders. This includes interviewing stakeholders, facilitating process improvement through the eyes of the customer, and gathering and compiling user requirements to understand where, if and how technology, digitalized processes, and data solutions are needed. The BA will apply proven communication, facilitation, change management, and analytical problem-solving skills to help the unit, or college make informed decisions. This position will also be proactive about working with university leaders and partners to look for innovation, technologies, and processes to help create agility at OSU .
The BA will perform analytical services pertaining to business, technology, data, and research/teaching focused projects with the purpose of developing solutions that may be technical, business/operational, and/or research/teaching-oriented. The BA will serve as a leader of quantitative and qualitative analyses, to include external industry research and will meet and collaborate with teams across the university to gather data/information. This position will work closely with Project Managers, IT partners, and business owners to monitor deliverables and user acceptance (UA) test output and lead internal system quality assurance (QA) testing and user acceptance sign-off processes.
The BA will participate as an active member of the EPPMO team to collaboratively design, and test techniques, tools, processes and templates, ensuring continuous innovation and improvement with a focus on operational excellence. Working within the EPPMO processes, the BA will use data gathered from stakeholder groups, schools, colleges, and departments, and help move the proposed changes through the enterprise change management process.
EPPMO , as a member of the OSU IT community, has a commitment to deliver data as a strategic working asset and to enable data informed decision making across OSU . Leaders and staff will lead by example and use data to inform decision making at all levels in the organization. Persons in technology roles are also expected to design systems with data portability in mind and work within enterprise architecture and privacy guidelines.
EPPMO has a deep commitment to and belief in the strength and value of diversity, equity, and inclusion ( DEI ) both throughout our team and as an intentional and active practice to advance the vision, mission, and strategic efforts of the entire university. As a member of the EPPMO , the person in this position is expected to foster and promote the values of DEI and demonstrate a commitment to inclusive excellence in their work.
Proactively securing and protecting OSU's digital assets and information systems is crucial to our missions of teaching and learning, research, and outreach and engagement. All EPPMO and OSU IT professionals have a direct responsibility to provision high quality and secure IT systems and services. Persons in technology roles are expected to be responsive to security related actions and requirements, and to collaborate to find secure ways to support the OSU community
Minimum Qualifications (Staff) / Guidelines (Faculty):
Typically requires Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science or related field. May require IT Certification.
Requirements :
This position is designated as a critical or security-sensitive position; therefore, the incumbent must successfully complete a criminal history check and be determined to be position qualified as per University Standard: 05-010 et seq. Incumbents are required to self-report convictions and those in youth programs may have additional criminal history checks every 24 months.
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Additional Salary Information: $60,288-$105,420
About Oregon State University
Oregon State is a leading research university located in one of the safest, smartest, greenest small cities in the nation. Situated 90 miles south of Portland, and an hour from the Cascades or the Pacific Coast, Corvallis is the perfect home base for exploring Oregon?s natural wonders.Oregon State University has always been a place with a purpose ? making a positive difference in quality of life, natural resources and economic prosperity in Oregon and beyond. Through discovery, innovation and application, we are meeting challenges, solving problems and turning ideas into reality.Founded in 1868, Oregon State is the state?s Land Grant university and is one of only two universities in the U.S. to have Sea Grant, Space Grant and Sun Grant designations. Oregon State is also the only university in Oregon to hold both the Carnegie Foundation's top designation for research institutions and its prestigious Community Engagement classification.As Oregon?s leading public research university, with $261.7 million in external funding in the 2011 fiscal year, Oregon State?s impact reaches across the state and beyond. With 12 colleges, 15 Agricultural Experiment Stations, 35 county Extension offic ... es, the Hatfield Marine Sciences Center in Newport and OSU-Cascades in Bend, Oregon State has a presence in every one of Oregon?s 36 counties, with a statewide economic footprint of $2.06 billion.Oregon State welcomes a diverse student body of over 26,000 students from across Oregon, all 50 states and more than 100 countries. They can choose from more than 200 undergraduate and more than 80 graduate degree programs, including over 30 degrees online offered through Oregon State Ecampus. Oregon State increasingly attracts high-achieving students, with nationally recognized programs in areas such as conservation biology, agricultural sciences, nuclear engineering, forestry, fisheries and wildlife management, community health, pharmacy and zoology.Oregon State also ranks high in sustainability, fourth among universities nationwide for using renewable energy and first in the Pac-12 Conference. And our students literally help power the university: 22 exercise machines at Oregon State University has always been a place with a purpose ? making a positive difference in quality of life, natural resources and economic prosperity in Oregon and beyond. Through discovery, innovation and application, we are meeting challenges, solving problems and turning ideas into reality. For more information visit 400-acre main campus in Corvallis includes a Historic District, making Oregon State one of only a handful of U.S. university campuses listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district includes such icons as Weatherford Hall, the Memorial Union and Benton Hall, the oldest building on the oldest building on campus.OSU commits to inclusive excellence by advancing equity and diversity in all that we do. We are an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, and particularly encourage applications from members of historically underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, women, individuals with disabilities, veterans, LGBTQ community members, and others who demonstrate the ability to help us achieve our vision of a diverse and inclusive community.
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