Supervisor, GIS

Job Description

Supervisor, GIS

Advisory Services Department

Position Type/ Hours: This is a permanent full-time position working thirty-five (35) hours per week within the GIS Branch of the Advisory Services Department.

Position Description:

The Supervisor, GIS is responsible for the establishing organization wide GIS (Geographic Information Systems) objectives and oversees the planning, coordinating, and managing of data by the RMWB’s GIS department.

Primary responsibilities of this position include:

Employee Development: Performs supervisory tasks for assigned team members. Works with team to plan and balance workload. Ensures teams are managed fairly and consistently and that work processes are followed and coordinated to ensure service levels. Mentors, coaches, and provides support to staff.

Research and Implementation: Participates in the continuous research, development, improvement, and implementation of effective departmental strategies, tools, and guidelines based on the municipality’s best practices. Analyzes the effectiveness of departmental programs and makes suggestions for further improvement. Provides input to department business plans, initiatives, and budget to ensure continuous achievement of department goals.

Departmental Guidance: Implements and oversees quality control on all developed and maintained GIS data. Manages all procedures related to the identification, prioritization, and resolution of client requests. Coordinates and performs error checking and reports to ensure they are evaluated and resolved. Recognizes opportunities for improving municipal staff access or contribution to spatial data and analytics. Acts on those opportunities with help from the branch to improve decision making in the Municipality. Determines the effectiveness of the products and coordinates the development or elimination of products.

Qualifications:

• Degree in Geography with a focus on Geographic Information Systems with five (5) years’ experience.

OR

• Diploma or Certificate in GIS or a Degree in Geography without emphasis on GIS with seven (7) years’ experience.
• Minimum of two (2) years’ leadership/supervisory experience in the field.
• An equivalent combination of education and work experience may be considered.
• Experience working in a public sector environment with unionized and non-unionized employees considered an asset.

You will possess the following:

• Demonstrated ability to lead and empower people, strong organizational skills, and use of innovative approaches in situations involving rapid change, shifting priorities, and/or simultaneous demands.
• Excellent interpersonal, analytical, and communication skills both verbal and written, as well as a demonstrated ability to assess situations from a business perspective.
• Proven customer focus with demonstrated ability to build effective relationships with internal customers, external providers, and industry contacts.
• Proven ability to read and interpret engineering, survey, and legal cadastral plans, and knowledge of the Alberta Township System.
• Proficiency with one or more industry-standard Desktop GIS, AutoCAD, and other drafting systems knowledge are required.
• Working knowledge of Enterprise GIS in Municipal Government.
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, user-elicitation, modelling, verification, and methodology development.
• Experience in planning, organizing, and developing information technology policies, procedures, and practices.
• Valid Alberta Class Five (5) Driver’s Licence is preferred as incumbent may be required to operate a personal or municipal vehicle for business use.

Salary Range: Competitive Salary

  In addition to the rate of pay, we offer other attractive incentives:

  -excellent training and development opportunities

-an extensive employer paid benefits plan

-an additional annual payment of $12,480 which represents a cost of living allowance 

Requisition Number: 003658

Closing Date: March 15, 2014 at 12:00 AM

Posting Type: Internal & External

To apply:  Please visit our website at www.woodbuffalo.ab.ca

We appreciate the interest of all applicants; however, only those individuals
selected for interviews will be contacted.

• Posted by: RMWB
• Company: Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo
• Province: Municipality of Wood Buffalo
• Location: Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
• Job type: GIS
• Salary: n/a
• Job category: Management - Supervisors
• Tags: Alberta - Certificate in GIS - Degree in Geography - GIS - organizational skills - spatial data - Supervisor

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