GIS Manager

The Alaska Municipal League envisions thriving communities for Alaska led by healthy local governments. AML strengthens Alaska’s local governments through shared services, technical assistance, policy support, training, planning, and collaboration. AML approaches its work through sustainability and partnership, with the goal of serving communities across Alaska.

The GIS Program Manager will develop, coordinate, and deliver AML’s shared Geographic Information Systems service for Alaska local governments. This position will help municipalities, boroughs, regional organizations, and partner entities use GIS to improve planning, infrastructure management, grant readiness, emergency preparedness, asset management, public communication, and local decision-making.

This position will serve as AML’s primary GIS technical resource and will work with AML staff, member governments, Tribal and regional partners, state and federal agencies, consultants, and funders to build practical GIS capacity for communities that may not have their own dedicated GIS staff. The position develops practical tools, data, and training that help communities strengthen local decision-making and project delivery.

The position combines advanced GIS technical work with program coordination, member support, project management, and training. The successful candidate will be able to produce high-quality maps and spatial analysis, maintain and improve spatial datasets, support web-based GIS products, and explain GIS concepts clearly to non-technical users.

AML classification:
Band 3 - Program Manager

Salary hiring range: $95,000 - $115,000 annually, depending on qualifications.

This position is expected to full-time and overtime exempt.

The GIS Program Manager will:

• Develop and implement AML’s shared GIS service for member governments and partner entities.
• Help define member service tiers, work plans, project scopes, deliverables, and annual GIS support packages.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for member GIS service requests.
• Track member service hours, deliverables, project status, and recurring needs.
• Develop templates, standards, and workflows that allow AML to deliver GIS services efficiently across multiple communities.
• Support AML leadership in evaluating demand, pricing, sustainability, and future staffing needs for GIS shared services.
• Identify opportunities to align GIS work with grants, contracts, sponsor ships, and member service revenue.

The GIS Program Manager will:

• Create, update, and maintain base maps, thematic maps, web maps, dashboards, and Story Maps.
• Collect, clean, organize, import, export, reformat, and process spatial data from multiple sources.
• Create and maintain project-specific geodatabases.
• Develop maps and spatial analysis for planning, land use, transportation, public facilities, housing, emergency management, hazard mitigation, asset management, and capital improvement planning.
• Perform spatial analysis to identify patterns, risks, service gaps, project priorities, and community needs.
• Support the development and maintenance of spatial datasets, including roads, addresses, parcels, boundaries, facilities, utilities, capital projects, critical infrastructure, and community assets.
• Support field data collection methods and tools, including mobile data collection applications where appropriate.
• Assist communities in developing data inventories, GIS readiness assessments, and practical data maintenance plans.

The GIS Program Manager will:

• Provide technical assistance to AML members on GIS tools, data organization, mapping needs, and project development.
• Translate technical GIS concepts into plain language for elected officials, municipal staff, community members, and partner organizations.
• Lead or support office hours, trainings, workshops, webinars, and peer learning sessions.
• Help communities understand what GIS data they have, what data they need, and how GIS can support local government operations.
• Develop user guides, templates, standard…