Senior GIS Analyst

Senior GIS Analyst

Work with people who do what they love and love where they do it. GPA Consulting, a multidisciplinary firm that specializes in environmental planning, biology studies, and historic preservation, is looking for a qualified Senior GIS Analyst to join our diverse team of highly skilled professionals. If you are passionate about communicating the natural environment through GIS mapping, and you share our determination to provide our clients with high-quality work, then we want to hear from you.

The ideal candidate will have:

• At least 8 years of geospatial analysis and GIS mapping; or
• Eight years of experience directing or conducting GIS analysis, at least one year of which must have been preparing maps and graphics in support of environmental impacts analysis in California (a Master’s Degree in GIS may be substituted for two years of the general experience); a GIS certificate may substitute for six months of experience; and
• Equivalent to graduation from college in the Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Geography, Planning, or a closely related field.

The chosen candidate’s responsibilities include preparing graphic representations of land areas and other physical resources that can be used for analysis by utilizing GIS software systems that produce complex maps and reports. The position will also include performing geographical research and collecting, compiling, analyzing, and interpreting spatial data. In addition to GIS skills, this position requires effective communication skills and a knowledge of applicable state and federal regulations.

This position includes working across multidisciplinary staff and sub-consultants to support their comprehensive environmental studies, acting as an in-house consultant performing mapping activities to support environmental analysis or to graphically communicate the presence or analysis of a wide variety of environmental resources.

• Working as an interdisciplinary team member;
• Creating maps and graphics using GIS software and related equipment;
• Ensuring quality and consistency of maps, graphics, data and other products generated in GIS;
• Meeting with users to define data needs, project requirements, required outputs, or to develop applications;
• Conducting research to locate and obtain existing databases;
• Gathering, analyzing, and integrating spatial data from staff and determining how best the information can be displayed using GIS;
• Compiling geographic data from a variety of sources including censuses, field observation, satellite imagery, aerial photographs, and existing maps;
• Analyzing spatial data for geographic statistics to incorporate into documents and reports;
• Designing and maintaining a data library for company-wide GIS resources;
• Entering or creating new map data through manual digitization or other means as project needs require;
• Analyzing geographic relationships among varying types of data;
• Preparing metadata and other documentation;
• Operating and maintaining GIS system hardware, software, plotters, and printers;
• Presenting information to users and answering questions;
• Retrieving stored maps;
• Coordinating resources for timely project delivery;
• Participating in regular team meetings to track the progress of work products and deliverables;
• Keeping current with the latest technology and recent developments in the GIS industry;
• Managing GIS software, data, and licenses for multiple users;
• Providing technical support for GIS Analysts and other GIS users; and
• Keeping up with the latest technology and recent developments in the industry.

The ideal candidate will also:

• Understand general principles and techniques and statistical analysis;
• Possess communication skills for purposes of data gathering and effective coordination with internal and external clients in relation to data needs;
• Understand best practices and data standards for spatial data as established by relevant State and Federal Agencies;
• Have knowledge of various methods for describing the location and distribution of land, sea, and air masses including their physical locations, relationships, and characteristics;
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