GIS Analyst

Position Title: GIS Analyst (GIS Analyst)
Type: Permanent Full-time
Classification: Technical

Under the general direction of the Coeur d’Alene Tribe’s GIS Manager and the Senior GIS Analyst/GIS System Manager, performs advanced professional technical work for the acquisition, analysis and maintenance of complex digital geospatial data. Work requires independent judgment in managing multiple priorities and in coordinating work activities to meet established schedules and goals. Duties include specific tasks within seven areas of responsibility:

• GIS database creation and maintenance
• Project coordination
• Client services
• Geo-spatial product production
• Unmanned Aerial Systems  (UAS) operations

Workload ranges from moderate to heavy. Scope of the work is Tribal-wide, although it may include work for other tribal governments, state and federal agencies, and the public. The organizational environment is hierarchical similar to organizations such as tribal, federal or state agencies, or the military. This position reports directly to the Tribe's GIS Manager. Work is conducted both in a normal office setting, in the out-of-doors under a variety of weather conditions and in a vehicle on a range of road surfaces including four-wheel-drive conditions.

Noise level is moderate to loud, depending upon the employee’s location. At times, duties may require fieldwork using GPS and UAS equipment in and near roadways, and in remote roadless areas. There is occasional lifting of computers and UAS’s and their components weighing up to 70 lbs.

• Coordinates technical GIS projects to achieve desired goals with available resources, plans and organizes individual work, reports on progress, makes recommendations and implements changes as needed
• Assists in definition and procurement of new data
• Performs sophisticated raster and vector-based GIS analysis and classification as needed
• Produces sophisticated maps, reports, imagery and related GIS products and services as needed
• Designs and develops project specific GIS applications or processes requiring programming and or customization of GIS applications
• Designs, implements, and documents quality control measures for special projects, products, and services
• Provides technical assistance to other GIS Analysts and Technicians, and to other departments’ GIS users, departmental managers and administrators related to their projects
• Develops, conducts and coordinates specialized GIS training sessions for GIS staff and other Tribal GIS users, and presents at GIS workshops
• Evaluates new GIS technologies products and services
• Assists the Senior GIS Analyst in managing the Tribe’s Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Program
  • Assists in managing the Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS’s, aka UAV’s, “drones”) and ancillary hardware, and software used in flight programming and data collection
  • Assists in planning aerial imagery acquisition schedule for Tribal lands to be monitored by the UAS’s
  • Using the appropriate software, creates flight missions for both the fix-wing and rotary based autopilots
  • Safely conducts UAS flights in the field on Tribal lands within the Coeur d’Alene Reservation in compliance with Tribal rules and the FAA regulations
  • Downloads collected imagery from the UAS cameras, geotag and process into usable raster layers
  • Assists in managing the UAS imagery library
• Assists the GIS Manager and Senior GIS Analyst with recommendations for GIS products and services and preparation of GIS budget
• Attends project demonstrations, seminars, workshops and other professional opportunities to maintain the necessary level of GIS expertise
• Grant acquisition and management
• Reports directly to the Tribe’s GIS Manager and the Senior GIS Analyst/GIS System Manager
• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor’s degree in GIS or a related field from an accredited college or university, plus at least four years experience in GIS and enterprise database management, preferably in a governmental setting. Combined educational and professional background should involve at least four years of increasingly responsible experience in GIS and enterprise database management, or any combination of…