Associate GIS Specialist
Associate GIS Specialist
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Job Description
Note: This position is temporary funded for two years with the possibility of further extension
THE AGENCY
The Department of City Planning (DCP) plans for the strategic growth and development of the City through groundup planning with communities the development of land use policies and zoning regulations applicable citywide and sharing its perspectives on growth and community needs with sister agencies in collaboration with the Mayors Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
DCP is a great place to work cultivating intellectual inspiration professional development and creativity. Visit our website at to access the full listing of job opportunities and to learn more about our great agency.
THE DIVISION
Information Technology Division (ITD) is responsible for supporting the agencys technology footprint including technology infrastructure across five boroughs as well as workflow applications and databases for analytics and decisionmaking. The division is comprised of 50 interdisciplinary staff with specialties in desktop support server engineering telecom application development database maintenance data processing data visualization and mapping amongst many others. The division provides technology support for agency staff across five boroughs.
Within ITD the Geographic Information and Systems (GIS) team is responsible for managing the agencys extensive geographic data warehouse collaborating on the agencys data strategy and promoting good data practices amongst data users throughout the agency. They are tasked with updating and maintaining core citywide data sets in support of the operations of city agencies; and improving the creation use and availability of geospatial data sets and tools within the agency.
THE ROLE
ITDs GIS team is seeking a skilled and highly motivated Associate GIS Specialist. The Associate GIS Specialist will work to improve GIS and data users experiences by understanding their use cases and devising solutions to meet their needs; providing guidance on the use of ArcGIS Pro and other GIS software; planning for and deploying a modern ArcGIS Enterprise system; expanding data offerings; and building spatial tools to automate tasks. The new hire will have a role in building tools to improve how the GIS team completes regular tasks and processes reenvisioning the GIS technologies used by the agencys 100 GIS users collaborating on the modernization of the Citywide Street Centerline (CSCL) maintenance system and documenting processes and procedures. The ideal candidate will be passionate about data literacy quality and accessibility and excited about advancing the adoption of new technologies in DCP and City government.
Under limited supervision the Associate GIS Specialists primary areas of responsibility include but are not limited to:
Collaborating on the administration improvement maintenance and modernization of DCPs GIS and data management infrastructure and tools with guidance from leadership
Collaborating with agency GIS users to understand their use cases for geospatial data spatial analysis web mapping and work processes to improve automate and increase efficiency of planners routine tasks.
Researching and promoting new ways to leverage GIS technologies within the agency
Providing GIS technical assistance and support for internal users
Promoting good data and documentation practices amongst data users throughout the agency ensuring that users can find the data they need understand the appropriate uses of the data and follow best practices for creating data sets within their areas of expertise
Assisting the Open Data Coordinator in maintaining and expanding the agencys open data offerings and responding to questions about agency data from the public
Developing strong understanding of data sets produced by City Planning and both how planners the public and publicfacing applications use or consume agency data
Sharing accomplishments and lessons learned via blog posts presentations or other mediums
Qualifications :
1. A baccalaureate degree in computer science engineering or a related field from an accredited college and four years of satisfactory fulltime experience related to IT automation engineering monitoring engineering management of infrastructure; or
2. Eight years of satisfactory fulltime experience related to IT automation engineering monitoring engineering management of infrastructure;
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to 1 or 2 above.
Additional Information :
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic including but not limited to an individuals sex race color ethnicity national origin age religion disability sexual orientation veteran status gender identity or pregnancy.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
