Geographic Information Systems Specialist

City of El Paso•Various Locations within the City of El Paso, TX

About The Position

Under direction, the Geographic Information Systems Specialist develops and maintains a computer-based GIS, assesses user needs, develops database applications, and provides technical support. The role maintains multi-layered map databases and spatial data, develops GIS solutions for demographic, land-use, municipal, emergency services, physical, and similar projects, and provides operational and database support to users. The position may supervise subordinate personnel during projects or in the absence of the GIS Manager or Administrator, and performs related GIS administrative duties as required. This is an unclassified contract position. Applicants assigned to the Department of Information Technology Services must pass a CJIS fingerprint-based background check within the first six months of hire and maintain CJIS eligibility. The posting also states that applicants with foreign diplomas, transcripts, or degrees must have them translated and evaluated by a NACES member agency before submitting them to Human Resources.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or higher in Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Geography, Geographic Information Systems, Planning, or a related field.
Two years of experience using GIS systems for engineering drafting, surveying, cartography, or photogrammetry.
Valid Texas Class C Driver’s License or equivalent from another state.
Applicants assigned to the Department of Information Technology Services must pass a CJIS fingerprint-based background check within the first six months of hire and maintain CJIS eligibility.
Applicants with foreign diplomas, transcripts, or degrees must have documents translated and evaluated by a National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) member agency before submitting them to Human Resources.
Applicants must fully document required education, experience, knowledge, and skills in the application’s employment history; résumés are not used to determine minimum qualifications.

Responsibilities

Enter, develop, and maintain computerized databases of multilayered maps and related spatial data.
Maintain standards for symbology, code use, dimensioning, labeling, layering, and other drawing features.
Operate a workstation to digitize maps and enter geographic record data.
Translate metes and bounds into digitized drawings and legal descriptions.
Import and transform maps, drawings, and databases, and review and correct data errors.
Assess user needs and develop database applications for demographic, land-use, municipal, emergency services, physical, or similar projects.
Determine the nature, extent, sources, and purposes of data to be depicted.
Integrate user needs with GIS capabilities to propose solutions, including alternate presentation methods, and develop templates, screens, macros, and similar graphical interfaces.
Perform map overlay, buffering, and other spatial analyses; generate thematic maps, graphs, statistical reports, and similar records.
Schedule and coordinate user system access and activities, and train users in workstation and software operation.
Analyze information-processing needs and recommend hardware and software acquisitions or upgrades to the system steering committee.
Interface between system hardware and software and resolve operational problems and computer system failures.
Supervise subordinate personnel during projects or in the absence of the GIS Manager or Administrator.
Participate in planning, assigning, and reviewing work; assist with training and development; and help enforce personnel rules, conduct and attendance standards, and safe working practices.
Perform related GIS administrative support and other miscellaneous duties as required.