GIS Analyst
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Job Summary
Help save the past to enrich the future! The National Trust for Historic Preservation is the nationally recognized leader of a movement to save America’s historic places and revitalize our older neighborhoods. You can be a part of that mission by helping the National Trust engage practitioners and the general public with compelling data that inspires them to take action on behalf of endangered places that represent our diverse cultural heritage. The GIS Analyst’s primary role will be to facilitate usage of GIS across the organization and to bring it into the everyday work of the National Trust. The GIS Analyst will work with each division of the National Trust to identify needs, develop solutions, build staff capacity and help design workflows and best practices related to GIS applications and geospatial data. This position will administer the National Trust’s ArcGIS online account (AGOL), manage data created by the National Trust, and respond to technical issues. This position will be responsible for developing training materials and providing routine trainings to staff on tools of potentially broad applicability, like basic web map creation and story maps. The GIS analyst will provide technical support to efforts to increase the availability of high-quality cultural resource survey data and support National Treasures work through development of appropriate GIS applications such as viewshed analyses or other visualizations. Other responsibilities of this position include potentially supporting a Historic Sites GIS pilot project, exploring the feasibility and development of a fee-for-service model, and supporting our partners by developing and presenting outside trainings.
The preferred candidate will be comfortable working in teams and collaborating across divisions. This is a new position, and the candidate will need to be a self-starter that approaches the job with a problem-solving mindset and be interested in the challenge of supporting the growth of the National Trust’s technical capacity over time.
DUTIES
- Technical administration of the ArcGIS Online platform: adding users, setting groups and permissions, defining the gallery content, advising on data quality and publication, and generally supporting users with technical guidance.
- Developing solutions for the needs of NTHP departments and partners for GIS implementation.
- Coordinating data production and compilation and reporting on data quality and currency, production of metadata as needed and organizing databases for consumption by the Trust’s GIS users.
- Coordination of data field technology (GPS, mobile devices, deployment support).
- Providing technical support to users and coordinating NTHP’s interactions with Esri technical support on behalf of NTHP users.
- Supporting NTHP’s GIS strategy with budget recommendations, vendor interactions, definition of partner roles, and project planning.
- Technical coordination of partner collaborations and data/map contributions .
- Training users on basic uses of ArcGIS, ArcGIS Online and related capabilities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in geography, geographic information systems, or related field
- Minimum of 2-3 years of GIS experience required.
- Experience in acquisition and management of spatial data, including editing workflows
- Experience in map production and geospatial analysis using ArcGIS for Desktop
- Experience making 3D GIS visualization and renderings, using ArcGIS for Desktop and City Engine. Experience integrating AutoCAD GIS plugin and developing GIS building information models is a plus.
- Familiarity with the Esri platform, including ArcGIS Online, Collector for ArcGIS (the ideal candidate will also have familiarity with ArcGIS Server and Operations Dashboard)
- Knowledge of coordinate systems/map projections, and temporal properties of data
- Familiarity with overhead imagery, resolution, types, and uses
- Familiarity with FGDC and metadata standards
- Ability to produce professional, high quality, GIS-based cartographic products
- User-level understanding of relational database technology
- Collaboration and team participation skills; ability to facilitate a group discussion, capture and document user needs, and translate them into usable artifacts (documents, drawings, prototype maps, etc.)
- Working knowledge of multiple desktop and web-based GIS software packages preferred.
- Understanding and experience with historic preservation, conservation, archaeology, architecture, and/or related fields preferred.
TO APPLY:
Email your resume and cover letter to 231953-CS-11497@nthp.hrmdirect.com