Posting Date : 2/7/2018

Job# : 5542254

Employment Type : Intern/Co-op

Category : Product Engineering

Job Title : Intern - Business Analyst

Location : Portland, OR

Position Summary
The Business Analyst Intern role is an opportunity to learn from and contribute to working software used by millions of students. Guidance, collaboration, and oversight will be provided by appropriate manager(s) and more senior level Business Analysts. The Business Analyst Intern role will contribute directly to requirements discovery efforts, will work closely with other analysts on the team to deliver the requirements to software teams, and to ensure that business value is provided by the released software

Responsibilities
BA Planning and Monitoring
• Assist Business Analysts in planning analysis approaches; will identify own work tasks
• Adhere to organization and team standards.
Elicitation
• Schedule meetings at the request of other analysts
• Document meeting minutes, including requirements, decisions and action items.
• Facilitate meetings as requested, with supervision.
Requirements Management and Communication
• Document requirements changes and traceability, with supervision.
• Communicate requirements changes to stakeholders, with supervision
Enterprise Analysis
• Provide support for enterprise analysis activities, with supervision
Requirements Analysis
• Document requirements, assumptions and constraints, with supervision.
• Use approved tools and templates for requirements documentation.
Solution Assessment and Validation
• Work with stakeholders to validate that the solution meets the business need, with supervision.

Skills and Abilities
Analytical thinking and problem solving
• Demonstrates basic problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Works with stakeholders to identify needs, issues and risks, with supervision.
• Escalates issues appropriately when necessary.
Behavioral characteristics
• Demonstrates a positive, can-do attitude when accepting new challenges or assignments.
• Builds trust with stakeholders by applying honest and ethical standards in all interactions.
• Accepts responsibility for, and ownership of, personal errors.
• Exhibits self-awareness and is open to learning, feedback and development.
Business knowledge
• Demonstrates a basic understanding of the business analysis practice within the software development life cycle.
• Demonstrates a basic understanding of organizational goals, and is beginning to produce analysis that takes into account broader strategic issues.
• Contributes business domain knowledge expertise.
Communication skills
• Demonstrates basic oral and written communications.
• Actively communicates with staff from different teams and business units.
Interaction skills
• Collaborates with business analysts and stakeholders to solve business problems.
• Builds positive working relationships with stakeholders.
• Is co-operative, shares information and knowledge.
Software apps
• Demonstrates proficiency working within a Microsoft-based environment (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook, SharePoint).
• Demonstrates the ability to learn specialized applications being used by the team.
Education and Experience
• Must have proven ability to grasp NWEA processes and apply basic business analyst skills and knowledge in a fast-paced environment, with supervision.
• Must have proven experience and skills in communication (oral and written).
• Basic understanding of the practice of business analysis and industry standards.
• Pre-existing knowledge of NWEA's core business highly desirable.
• Working towards a Bachelor's degree in the field of business analysis, accounting, business administration, management information systems or computer science is preferred

NWEA is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer, and we do not discriminate against employees or job applicants based on race, color, national origin, age, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status or consideration protected by local, state and federal laws, except where a bona fide occupational qualification applies. Equal opportunity applies to hiring, promotion, training, compensation, and any other organizational action. NWEA's written Affirmative Action Plan is available to all employees and job applicants upon request