GIS Officer Contract Full Time

GIS Officer based in Walthamstow and the pay rate is £350.00 per day  

This is a full time temporary role. 

Employer Reference: 456019

This role will involve:

• Be the GIS expert across the organisation – providing specialist expertise and guidance to Senior
• Management, Officers, Members, Developers, the public and other stakeholders on all aspects of GIS
• Define and update existing GI related governance documents and procedures to meet strategic, operational and legislative needs covering aspects such as data standards, security and permissions
• Act as the GI gatekeeper across the organisation – outlining GI data and metadata standards and protocols and enforcing these utilising automated tools within the GIS application, scripts and permissions as well as manual procedures/audits
• Responsible for preparing, translating, structuring, maintaining and analysing GI data within the centralised GIS database in accordance with GI governance and best practice
• Be the primary administrator of the corporate GIS application – configuring map projects and templates, securely publish data and map services and administrate permissions. Ensure that the service is well resourced and appropriately funded.
• Perform complex spatial analysis using creative and appropriate techniques on a range of vector, raster and flat datasets
• Advocate and champion GIS, showcasing efficiencies, insight and intelligence that derive from its effective use
• Match and leverage disparate data from third party applications and IoT services to provide an insightful and engaging GIS visibility layer for operational and performance management
• Provide a level 3 helpdesk function to support GIS superusers

Ideally candidates will have:

• Knowledge of enterprise GIS data management
• Ability to use Geographic information systems (GIS) to collect, store, analyse, manipulate and present a range of complex geographical and spatial data. Data can come in a range of formats including cartographic, photographic, digital (for example, from satellites) and remote sensing, or in tables and spreadsheets
• Ability to use GIS technology to overlay all these types of data into one map, manipulating it so that all the sources have the same scales and allowing complex readings to be taken from the map
• IT skills, including the use and manipulation of complex databases and spreadsheets
• Knowledge of specialised software packages such as ArcGIS or ESRI
• Degree or postgraduate qualification in a relevant subject

Due to high volumes of CVs received we are not able to respond to all unsuccessful applications. You will always however hear from us by phone if we are able to take your CV forward to the next stage.

If you are interested in the role please apply on our website with your CV, alternatively you can email your CV to cvs@essentialemploy.co.uk quoting the reference number.

Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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