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This role partners with stakeholders across departments and business units to identify problems, analyze complex needs, and translate them into clear, actionable requirements that support effective solutions.\nThe Business Analyst serves as a trusted facilitator and thought partner, supporting alignment and informed decision-making among diverse stakeholder groups. This position requires an experienced analyst who can operate independently, navigate ambiguity, and apply proven business analysis practices. This role helps define the problem space rather than simply documenting proposed solutions and brings clarity in situations where requirements are incomplete, conflicting, or evolving.\nNote: This position is considered Hybrid and will need to commute to ACOG's office located in Washington, D.C.\nSupervisory Responsibilities:\nThis position has no direct supervisory responsibilities but does serve as a coach and mentor for other positions in the department.\nDuties/Responsibilities:\nLead discovery sessions and stakeholder discussions to define business problems, desired outcomes, success measures, requirements, and assumptions.\nAnalyze and document current and future-state processes, workflows, business rules, and system interactions; identify opportunities to reduce complexity, duplication, and manual work.\nReview incoming requests, clarify the business need and impact, identify affected owners and teams, prepare intake summaries, and route requests for evaluation and prioritization. Identify recurring themes and intake bottlenecks to support broader improvements.\nDevelop clear, concise, and testable requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for technical and non-technical initiatives, tailoring the analysis approach to the needs and complexity of the work.\nIdentify risks, gaps, and dependencies across projects, business processes, applications, digital platforms, data, integrations, vendors, and support teams; engage appropriate subject-matter experts and delivery partners.\nParticipate in solution design, backlog refinement, and sprint planning to clarify requirements and maintain alignment on decisions, dependencies, and expected outcomes.\nPartner with QA and business stakeholders to support testing, user acceptance, and implementation readiness, including changes to workflows, roles, documentation, training, support, and ongoing ownership.\nPerform other duties as assigned to support organizational priorities and strategic initiatives.\nRequired Skills/Abilities:\nAdvanced business analysis skills, including requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation.\nExceptional facilitation skills with the ability to lead productive discussions among diverse, cross-functional stakeholder groups.\nStrong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills with the ability to decompose complex problems and synthesize information across teams and departments.\nAbility to gather and organize information about business impact, urgency, risk, dependencies, and expected value to support intake and prioritization decisions.\nAbility to recognize when a request may involve applications, integrations, data, security, infrastructure, digital platforms, or vendor dependencies and engage the appropriate subject-matter experts.\nProficiency in writing high-quality user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional requirements for technical and non-technical audiences.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts clearly and concisely.\nAbility to operate independently, manage ambiguity, and drive outcomes without close supervision.\nEducation and Experience:\nBachelor’s degree required in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field.\nMinimum of 5 years of professional experience performing business analysis in complex organizational environments.\nDemonstrated experience leading requirements and facilitation efforts for cross-functional, multi-department initiatives.\nProven track record of delivering high-quality requirements and user stories that support successful solution delivery.\nExperience working within Agile delivery frameworks, including Scrum, and supporting analysis practices such as intake process, requirements triage, backlog refinement and user story development.\nExperience using tools such as Wrike, Jira, Azure DevOps, Lucidchart, Miro, Visio, or similar platforms for intake, requirements management, backlog support and process modeling.\nExperience working on both technology-focused and business-focused projects.\nExperience within membership associations or similar organizations is helpful but not required.\nStrong understanding of organizational operations, change impacts, and stakeholder management.\nSalary Range\n$90,000—$100,000 USD\nOur Perks\nPaid Parental Leave - Breastfeeding Friendly Workplace - Flexible work schedule - Commuting Allowance - Generous Paid Time Off - Holiday Pay - Life Insurance - Community Volunteering Opportunities - Generous 401(k) Company Contributions - Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance - Learning Opportunities and Tuition Reimbursement - Company-Sponsored Team Outings - and more!\nACOG is an EEO employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. As a federal government contractor and in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and Executive Orders, the College takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants and employees covered are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, national origin, sex (gender), age, disability, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, personal appearance, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, political affiliation, veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic that is protected by applicable law. For more information about your equal employment opportunity rights, please view this poster: EEO is the Law. 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