GIS Officer at CloudWare Technologies

Job Description

• We seek to hire a suitable candidate to fill this position. Geographical information systems (GIS) officers captures and analyze a range of geographical data using GIS systems in order to help organizations make long-term plans

Responsibilities

• Work on projects, scoping out the nature and purpose of the information required by clients
• Collect, store, analyze, and present geographical and spatial information
• Use a range of GPS tools in the field to capture the location of 'assets' such as bridges, street lights, road barriers, and flood defenses
• Undertake desk-based data capture (digitizing) to convert paper maps to GIS datasets to, for example, record the location of telecom cables or water pipelines from original maps.
• Create and maintain the structures necessary for GIS data storage
• Develop tools for loading/transferring GIS data between different systems
• Manipulate, analyze, and present geographical information by creating programs to convert GIS information from one format to another
• Develop internet apps to present GIS data and tools on corporate websites
• Use tools to join together different GIS datasets and create new information or investigate patterns, e.g. estimating the number of people potentially affected by flooding, using population growth figures and planning information to estimate increasing/decreasing demand for school capacity, or calculating the number of potential customers for a new supermarket and predicting buying patterns based on socio-economic factors.

Requirements

• Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree qualification with 2 - 7 years work experience.