9 Grade 6 Head of Business Analysis Civil Service Behaviour Statements

Grade 6 Head of Business Analysis applications require more than senior analysis experience. Your evidence must show strategic judgement, leadership through other analysts and the ability to shape difficult decisions across programmes and services.

This guide gives you nine complete Grade 6 Head of Business Analysis behaviour statements, with one example of up to 250 words for every Civil Service behaviour.

Each example is built around a realistic senior business analysis challenge and shows the level of functional leadership, decision-making and stakeholder influence expected from a strong Grade 6 candidate.

Who Is This Guide For?

This guide is designed for candidates applying for roles such as:

• Grade 6 Head of Business Analysis
• Head of Business Analysis
• Principal Business Analysis Lead
• Business Analysis Practice Lead
• Similar business analysis leadership roles assessed at Grade 6 level

The examples cover portfolio, transformation, operational and cross-organisation analysis work across government.

What Is Included?

• Nine complete behaviour statements of up to 250 words
• One example for every Civil Service behaviour
• Role-specific guidance explaining what each behaviour looks like at Grade 6 Head of Business Analysis level
• A detailed explanation of why every example works
• A full B-STAR breakdown for each statement
• A Grade 6 quality checklist for reviewing your own evidence

All Nine Civil Service Behaviours

1. Seeing the Big Picture
2. Changing and Improving
3. Making Effective Decisions
4. Leadership
5. Communicating and Influencing
6. Working Together
7. Developing Self and Others
8. Managing a Quality Service
9. Delivering at Pace

Built Around Realistic Grade 6 Business Analysis Work

The examples cover distinct senior analysis situations, including:

• Stopping overlapping procurements by identifying a shared customer-evidence capability across three programmes
• Replacing inconsistent BA controls across six programmes with a proportionate risk-based assurance framework
• Advising an investment board on a staged replacement strategy for four ageing licensing systems
• Reprioritising a BA function after a funding reduction and an urgent statutory change increased demand
• Challenging a director's preferred single-channel service design while preserving the outcomes they needed
• Aligning a regulator, delivery partner and commercial function on one inspection scheduling model
• Building stronger investment-analysis capability through Lead BAs and spreading it into the wider function
• Creating portfolio-wide service acceptance for an outsourced payments service with high-risk cross-programme exceptions
• Reorganising BA capacity to deliver a five-programme investment options pack within an accelerated spending-review deadline

See What Strong Grade 6 Business Analysis Evidence Looks Like

Each chapter explains how the example demonstrates the behaviour, where the candidate shows Grade 6 ownership and why the decisions are credible at Head of Business Analysis level.

The examples show how a Grade 6 Head of Business Analysis can:

• Set analysis direction across portfolios and major transformations
• Lead through Lead BAs and senior analysts rather than doing all analysis personally
• Shape investment, service and transformation decisions with senior governance
• Set proportionate analysis and assurance standards across programmes
• Challenge directors and other senior stakeholders using clear evidence and trade-offs
• Prioritise scarce BA capability while remaining accountable for analysis quality

Clear B-STAR Breakdowns

Every statement is followed by a breakdown showing how the evidence is structured through:

• Belief
• Situation
• Task
• Action
• Result

This allows you to compare your own evidence against a complete Grade 6 Head of Business Analysis example and identify whether your statement contains enough leadership, judgement and personal ownership.

What You Receive

• One downloadable PDF guide
• Nine full Grade 6 Head of Business Analysis behaviour examples
• Immediate digital access after purchase
• No physical product will be posted