Location:
Herndon, VA 20171
Employee Type:
Full-Time
Industry:
Education - Teaching - Administration
Manages Others:
No
Job Type:
Information Technology
Education
Management
Education:
4 Year Degree
Experience:
At least 6 year(s)
Post Date:
9/16/2009
Contact Information
Ref ID:
54775
Description

Releasing possibility, changing lives

Founded in 1999, K12 is a company committed to excellence in education. K12 is a curriculum development company and provides management services to public charter schools throughout the United States. The company has developed an excellent curriculum and instructional tools to help give students a great education. We have become the leader in providing individualized, one-to-one learning solutions to students from kindergarten through high school across the country and around the world. These solutions have literally changed lives and opened up possibilities for many children. The company's unique programs combine online technology with traditional content and the world's best teaching methods. It's all about removing the barriers that keep children from reaching their true, individual potential-it's what gets us jumping out of bed in the morning to come to work. Each year, we help tens of thousands of students reach out toward their true personal possibility. Education is delivered several ways to charter schools, school districts and to home school environments. "Online learning through virtual schools is one of the most important advancements in attempting to rethink the effectiveness of education in the United States. The virtual school provides access to online, collaborative and self-paced learning environments-settings that can facilitate 21st Century skills. Today's students must be able to combine these skills with the effective use of technology to succeed in current and future jobs." (The North American Council for Online Learning and the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, November 2006).

 

Business Requirements Analyst

 

As an experienced Business Requirements Analyst, you will help to define functional requirements to help build K12 systems and products with a focus on product development and curriculum delivery. Additionally, you will be involved with organizational evolving process/workflow and tool usage. Reporting to the Director of the Product Development Innovation team, you will elicit, analyze, validate, specify, verify and manage the business needs of the project stakeholders including international customers and end users.

 

The Business Analyst is involved throughout the business solution development lifecycle. Upon establishment of the requirements baseline, the focus is shifted towards verifying the fulfillment of all requirements and communicating changes in accordance with the project change control process.

 

Responsibilities:

    * Understand and articulate the business vision, problem definition and opportunity by documenting business requirements, use cases and functional and non-functional requirements
    * Perform interviews of project stakeholders and translate this information into manageable and executable requirements
    * Collaborate with multidisciplinary management team in prioritizing functional requirements and developing a phased-development approach with the project team
    * Communicate with colleagues and Director to ensure product remains true to stated goals of functional requirements throughout development of product
    * Manage product requirements using standard traceability and change control methods
    * Provide central coordination for all business and infrastructure requirements for Product Development initiatives as a critical member of the Product Development PMO
    * Work across Product Development to establish thorough requirements for systems/products
    * Ensure requirements are well documents, traceable and testable through implementation
    * Interface directly with internal )Product Development) and external (other K12) stakeholders to ensure requirements are accurately articulated
    * Facilitate the coordination and implementation of ideas and activities between the Product Development and Systems & Technology organizations to ensure positive cooperation in a dynamic matrix environment
    * Work independently on behalf of multiple management areas to prioritize work and establish deadlines and milestones
    * Resolve issues and conflicts as they arise

 
Requirements

    * Exceptional interviewing and listening skills
    * Strong facilitation, observation, writing and organizational skills
    * Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
    * Outstanding project management skills to help organize, lead and implement solutions
    * Demonstrated knowledge and proven experience in leading major product development
    * Demonstrated knowledge and experience with product and software development lifecycle methodologies
    * Ability to understand, organize and lead complex efforts
    * Ability to adapt to a dynamic business environment; thrive in high-pressure situations
    * Team player with negotiation experience
    * Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to use a variety of resources to solve problems and have the technical understanding of marketing, data warehouse, registration, billing and customer care requirements
    * Understanding of traditional and new requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification and management practices and the ability to apply them in practice; familiarity with requirements engineering concepts and principles
    * Knowledge of product management concepts and how enterprise IT business application products are positioned and developed
    * General business management and operations knowledge
    * Bachelor’s degree in Business or technology related field
    * 6-8 years direct product management and/or systems/business analysis experience
    * Solid understanding and experience with web technologies



Preferred Qualifications:

    * Experience with content management systems and portals
    * Experience with designing internationalized application
    * Experience with designing section 508 compliant applications
    * Familiarity with lifecycle process
    * Familiarity with requirments management tools
    * Highly skilled with industry supported software/methodologies and project organization
    * Exposure to business operations
    * Excellent people skills in networking and building relationships in a quickly changing environment
    * Exposure to complex sales and marketing agendas and promotions
    * PDMA NPDP or PMI PMP certification