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Business Insight Analyst – Organisational Effectiveness
Contract type: Permanent, Full time, 35 hours per week
Location: London, UK
UK hybrid working – a minimum of 40 % of working time is spent face-to-face (London office, external meetings or travel). 60/40 hybrid working at WaterAid means roughly three days wherever you work best and two days together in person.
Salary: £45,052 - £47,423 with excellent benefits
*We offer competitive, market-aligned salaries based on the grade and scope of each role. Roles are offered at the advertised starting salary, with any exceptions considered only in exceptional circumstances.
Change starts with water. Change starts with you.
Every day, millions of people live without clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. WaterAid exists to change that – for everyone, everywhere. Join us, and your energy will help unlock people’s potential and create a fairer future.
About WaterAid
We’re a global federation driven by one vision: a world where everyone, everywhere has clean water, sanitation and hygiene by 2030. Powered by our values of Respect, Accountability, Courage, Collaboration, Integrity and Innovation, we work alongside communities, partners and supporters to make change happen.
About the team
The Data & Analytics team helps WaterAid make confident, evidence-based decisions by providing analysis, reporting and insight across the organisation, translating business needs into actionable analysis to further our mission.
As ourOrganisational Effectiveness Analyst, you will help WaterAid run effectively by turning organisational data into clear, trusted insight and work closely with the People, Finance and Strategy teams to drive sustainable change.
In this role, you will:
- Design, build and maintain reports and dashboards using Power BI, ensuring insight is clearly presented and genuinely useful for decision-making.
- Help to shape a clear People data strategy and approach that enables evidence-based workforce planning, strategic decision-making and improved use of People data, with support from the Head of Data & Analytics and the People Director.
- Support Finance reporting and analysis, including working with engineering and finance-systems colleagues on changes to the data pipeline, enabling and quality-assuring self-service reporting by Finance users
- Maintain and develop cross-organisational management information, including quarterly and live C-Suite reporting, responding to growing demand for clear reporting across domains.
- Champion WaterAid’s commitment to equity, inclusion and safeguarding.
Requirements
To be successful, you will need:
- Practical data skills, including the ability to manipulate and investigate data using SQL and DAX.
- Strong data visualisation and reporting skills, particularly with Power BI, able to turn complex information into clear insight and recommendations for decision-makers.
- Good business analysis skills: able to work with stakeholders to understand their goals and translate them into clear reporting and data requirements.
- A methodical, careful approach to data quality and documentation, comfortable monitoring data and flagging issues within a data stewardship model.
Although not essential, we’d prefer you to have:
- Experience working with data across back-office or corporate functions such as People/HR or Finance.
- Experience translating business requirements into data or warehouse logic alongside engineers.
Closing date: Applications close 12:00 PM UK time on Tuesday, 1st September. Interviews are expected to take place week commencing 7th September.
How to apply: Click Apply to complete the pre-screening questions and upload your CV and cover letter
Can I use Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology in my application?
At WaterAid, we strongly advise against using AI technology at any stage of the recruitment process. Our goal is to ensure a fair and transparent process that provides every applicant with an equal opportunity to succeed. We value hearing about your unique experiences and perspectives in your application, and, if shortlisted, during the interview as well.
Pre‑employment screening
To apply for this role, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the respective country. All pre-employment checks will be carried out according to local law and WaterAid’s Safer Recruitment policy. All UK based roles require a basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Benefits
- 36days’ holiday (including 8 Bank Holidays)
- Option to buy an extra 5days’ annual leave
- Employer pension contribution up to 10%
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- Season ticket loan
- Free annual eye tests
- ‘Give as you Earn’ charitable giving scheme
- Enhanced parental leave (maternity, adoption/surrogacy, shared parental and paternity)
- Sabbaticals
- One paid volunteer day each year
As part of our annual leave policy, all employees receive three additional days of annual leave on top of their standard allocation of 25 days. These days are designated to cover the period when our UK office closes between Christmas and New Year, allowing all UK WaterAiders to take a well-deserved break.
These days are automatically scheduled and cannot be changed or moved. Annual leave is accrued based on your start date. If sufficient leave has not been accrued by the time of the closure, the 3 days will be taken as unpaid leave or pro-rated, depending on your circumstances.
Our People Promise
We will work with passion and focus to make sure everyone everywhere has clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene. WaterAid is a place of purpose – where people have a real commitment and shared responsibility for the impact we have. We are a global community with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, motivated by inspiring, stimulating work. We are determined to be a place where people feel safe and able to contribute their voice and truly live our values.
Equal Opportunities
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, beliefs, customs, traditions, ways of life and status. This includes, but is not limited to, race, ethnicity, caste, colour, gender, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, disability status, neurodiversity, age, marital and family status, sexual orientation and gender identity, health status, place of residence, economic and social situation.
Safeguarding
We are committed to protecting everyone we come into contact with. We have a zero- tolerance approach to abuse of power, privilege or trust across our global work, and to any form of inappropriate behaviour, discrimination, abuse, bullying, harassment, or exploitation. Safeguarding the people and communities we work with, our staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks (which can include counterterrorism, safeguarding and criminal records checks).
Together, we’ll change the world through water.
Join us and be part of the change!
Our vision is a world where everyone, everywhere has sustainable and safe water, sanitation and hygiene.



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Are you an analytical thinker and problem solver?
Do you have awareness of information security principles and their importance in protecting organisational information and services?
We’re recruiting for a Business Analyst to join us on an 18-month fixed term contract who will lead, coordinate, and deliver analysis activities across the Information Security and Technology Experience Programme, these include our Identity Governance and Data Centre Migration Projects.
Key deliverables through this contract include:- Providing a complete set of approved business, functional and non-functional requirements, including user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases and traceability documentation for Identity Governance and Data Centre Migration projects.
- Completing As-Is and To-Be process maps, impact assessments, stakeholder analysis and dependency mapping that identify the people, process, technology and data changes required to support implementation.
- Providing a comprehensive analysis of business, technical, operational and data dependencies, identifying impacts across systems, users, applications and migration activities.
Working within both Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies, you’ll play a key role in supporting the delivery of the programme, the processes, and the change management to leverage new capabilities.
Working arrangements
Please note this is an 18-month fixed term contract.
This is a hybrid role, where your work will be split between your home and at least one day per week, on average, in our London Office. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.
About you
With previous experience of working within a Business Analyst role, you’ll have previous experience of working within large organisations, able to implement change, and working with PRINCE2 and Agile SCRUM methodologies.
To be successful in this role you’ll also have the following experience and attributes:- Experience of planning and designing analysis workstreams across project and product initiatives
- Experience of developing business cases for strategic change initiatives
- Experience of reviewing current business processes and working with stakeholders to define effective improvements
- Experience of eliciting business requirements using a variety of tools, to support design definition
- Experience of solution evaluation and performance analysis for continuous improvement
- Experience of systems and data analysis
An effective team player, able to support colleagues, suppliers and partners to deliver successful business change, you’ll be a strong problem solver, able to take a methodical and analytical approach.
You’ll also have excellent communication skills, able to articulate ideas clearly and be comfortable engaging with a range of stakeholders and focusing on generating the most value for the BHF.
Belonging at BHF
By embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment, we strengthen our ability to achieve our mission of saving and improving lives, ensuring our work reflects and serves the needs of every community across the UK.
To hear from our people, check outBelonging at BHF.
Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we’ve helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We’re investing in ground-breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world where everyone has a healthier heart for longer.
Interview process
The interview process may take place in-person orvirtually viaMS Teams.
How to apply
It’s quick and easy to apply for a role at the BHF. Just click on the apply button below. All you’ll need is an up-to-date CV and a supporting statement, outlining your interest in the role and how you meet the role’s criteria.
Our recruitment processes are fair, accessible, andinclusive.BHFuse anonymous CV software as part of the application journey.
We support responsible use of AI to help shape your application. By applying for a role at BHF, you confirm that your application is authentic and reflects your own skills and experience, to ensure everyone is assessed fairly.
Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, pleasecontact a member of the Recruitment team.
Our vision is a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.
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