P1447 - Data and Visualization Specialist

City of Moncton•Moncton, NB

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Data and Visualization Specialist is responsible for maintaining and updating municipal geospatial and non-geospatial datasets to support municipal departments and services. The role involves data collection, editing, quality assurance, and spatial/non-spatial analysis to inform decision-making. The Data and Visualization Specialist will prepare maps, reports, and other visualizations, and provide data support across departments.

Requirements

High School graduate or equivalency.
Diploma or bachelor’s degree in geographic information systems (GIS), Urban Planning, Geography or a related field.
Must have a minimum of four (4) years of work experience related to municipal services. The required experience can be a combination of related work experience and course experience at the college or undergrad level.
Strong working knowledge and experience using ESRI ArcGIS software (ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online) is required.
Knowledge and experience with business intelligence and data processing tools such as SQL, Python, FME and PowerBI.
English essential.
Valid Class 5 Driver’s License (or equivalent).
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
Excellent communication and customer service abilities.
Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
Strong interpersonal, written and oral communication skills are essential for this position.

Nice To Haves

The ability to communicate in both official languages is considered an asset but is not a requirement for this position.
Experience with web mapping development using Esri products would be considered an asset.
Ability to attend public meetings, site visits, or work outside standard office hours as needed.

Responsibilities

Update and maintain geospatial and non-geospatial municipal datasets to ensure that they are kept current and accurate.
Perform data collection and editing, and maintain data documentation/metadata.
Regularly complete quality assurance work to identify and correct inconsistencies in corporate datasets.
Conduct spatial and non-spatial data analysis to support business objectives and various projects.
Prepare maps, reports and other data visualization outputs.
Assist in developing and maintaining interactive mapping applications for municipal staff and public use.
Provide support to users at multiple levels of product knowledge as technology is used in varying degrees through corporate departments.
Prepare data packages for consultants to support various studies.
This position requires a working knowledge of geographic information systems software (i.e. Esri) or related software and processes required for the assembly, analysis, storage, display and dissemination of spatial and non-spatial data.
Ability to utilize standard administrative programs (Microsoft Office) is required.
Strong knowledge of GIS principles, spatial analysis, and cartographic design.
Ability to complete a variety of technical assignments and manage multiple concurrent tasks independently.
Ability to prioritize tasks for completing work relating to data analysis, data collection and entry, mapping, editing and maintenance of datasets and other duties as assigned.
Attention to detail is significantly important for persons working in this position. Errors will cause inconvenience and could escalate corporate embarrassment, delays in work schedules or bad decisions to be made.
Persons in this position must have the ability to take on new tasks as technology progresses and are expected to keep up to date with the technology, particularly in the field of GIS and other related systems used by the City of Moncton.
Prepares data packages for consultants to support various studies.