GIS College Aide

City of New York•New York, NY

13d•$19 - $24

About The Position

The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) invests in a network of community-based organizations and programs to alleviate the effects of poverty and to provide opportunities for New Yorkers and communities to flourish. The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion unit conducts population and programmatic research and analysis, and develops tools to support agency operations. This includes the development of the Language Dashboard and the Public Engagement Tracker. Under the supervision of the Sr. GIS Analyst & Program Manager, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) College Aide will conduct spatial analysis and develop visualizations. They will support the team with writing scripts (ex. using Python or Arcade) to automatically generate, update, and publish map products.

Requirements

Matriculation at an accredited college or graduate school.
Employment is conditioned upon continuance as a student in a college or graduate school.
Specific course of study in information technology, computer science, management information systems, data processing, or closely related field (for Assignment Level II and III).
9 semester credits in an acceptable course of study (for Assignment Level II and III).

Nice To Haves

Writing scripts (ex. using Python or Arcade) to automatically generate, update, and publish map products.

Responsibilities

Locate, process, and acquire demographic, census, or other open-source data sets.
Format data received from internal and external sources to make them usable in analytic software.
Prepare maps, and displays using ESRI ArcGIS Pro & AGOL and/or related software and extensions.
Work with census data, agency program data, and other sources to do spatial analysis.
Clean, analyze and interpret complex social, economic, and population data, trends and provide recommendations.
Prepare charts and graphs, write reports, and present results.
Complete other special projects as requested.