GIS Technician III
Oregon, Ogle County, Illinois, 61061, USA
Listed on 2025-12-27
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Job Appointment: Full-Time, Regular
Work Schedule: Monday – Friday 7 AM – 3:30 PM
Work Location: Hybrid. Employees are expected to work on-site 50% of the time. Remote work must be performed within Oregon or Washington.
Benefits: Please check our benefits tab for an overview of benefits for this position.
Language Pay Premium Eligible: This position may be eligible for Language Pay Differential for qualifying employees.
Union Representation: PROTEC
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Application Material: Please click APPLY to submit your application via the City of Portland’s online portal. You will need to respond to the supplemental questions and attach a resume.
Position SummaryThe City of Portland is looking for a GIS professional to help us grow the urban forest for all Portlanders! This position will lead the GIS program at Portland Parks & Recreation Urban Forestry, supporting growing programs through the coordination of multiple projects and providing direction to other GIS staff. The GIS team at Urban Forestry maintains relational databases, develops tools and reports, conducts spatial analysis, and ensures data integrity, capturing and supporting the work of over 75 staff.
Creativity, high-level technical skills, a commitment to customer and public service, and a strong project management background will be important to success in this position.
- Coordinate and provide lead work direction for two GIS staff, providing guidance and mentorship while ensuring efficient project delivery.
- Create, manage, and execute annual team workplans and lead team and project meetings.
- Coordinate with Urban Forestry project managers to scope projects, define requirements, and develop GIS solutions.
- Serve as liaison with GIS stakeholders in other work units, bureaus, and organizations in the development and maintenance of GIS data to share information and coordinate projects.
- Support the administration of our GIS-based tree asset management system through cross-department team collaboration.
- Manage data integrations, document and centralize data standards to ensure data quality across multiple platforms as the lead data steward for Urban Forestry.
- Provide analysis, mapping, and other support for reporting on outcomes related to tree planting, tree care, and environmental equity.
- Design, implement, and maintain databases and execute database queries in Arc Pro, SQL, Python, or other languages.
- Design and produce public-facing and internal web maps, Experiences, and dashboards in the ESRI environment.
- Design and manage data automation models for analysis and reports with ESRI’s model builder, Python, or other BI tools.
- Train users on web and mobile GIS tools, troubleshoot, and help resolve technical problems.
- Experience leading other GIS professionals: managing their workflows, checking work, implementing data standards, and scheduling projects.
- Experience managing and editing spatial data, attribute data conversion, transfer, and data quality control.
- Experience developing and managing web and mobile GIS applications within the ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Enterprise environment, including Experience Builder, Dashboards, Instant Apps, Survey
123, and Field Maps. - Experience performing complex spatial analyses to generate geographic and statistical data.
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