[ES_JOBS_NET] GIS Specialist (Associate GIS Specialist) EI 2023-02, Richmond, CA, Environmental, Environment, Water, Science

[Anna De Lopez]

About the Position

SFEI is seeking a GIS Specialist to join the Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) team. This position will be a full-time position (40 hrs per week),
under the supervision of the GIS Manager. A successful candidate will be
enthusiastic, self motivated, and passionate about applying technical GIS
skills to address environmental problems. You will collaborate with your
colleagues to ensure an optimal relationship between science and policy
through innovative approaches to information collection, display, and
analysis. Although a strong foundation of GIS skills is required, an
environmental science background to enable effective landscape
interpretation, change analysis, and mapping is ideal.

*This is an opportunity to work creatively with other GIS professionals on
exciting advanced technical challenges to address some of the most
important environmental issues in California and beyond. Your immediate
team will include the GIS Manager, Pete Kauhanen, and other GIS
specialists, Alex Braud and Regan Murray. However, you will also often work
with software engineers, environmental scientists, and experts from across
the Institute.*
GIS Focus Area Description

The GIS Focus Area is responsible for serving the Institute and external
user community’s spatial information needs through collaborative and
innovative projects. Its success has provided the Institute with a strong
reputation of GIS excellence, regarding spatial dataset creation, spatial
tools and analysis, and evocative cartography. The GIS Specialist will work
with both technology and science teams to develop and implement GIS
methods, tools, and web delivery applications to support local and
statewide environmental management. GIS staff work closely with SFEI’s
Clean Water program on aquatic contaminant distribution and analysis and
the Resilient Landscapes program on wetlands mapping, landscape analyses,
and resilience planning. GIS is one of five “focus areas'' of the Environmental
Informatics Program <https://www.sfei.org/programs/ei> which provides
clients and partners with the most current technology tools available to
meet their missions.
Role Responsibilities

Duties are likely to be diverse and will require an enthusiastic,
team-oriented individual. Typical duties will include:

   - Use remote sensing, object based image analysis, and other advanced
   methodologies to further automate wetland mapping to support the
   Institute’s aquatic resource mapping initiative (
   https://www.sfei.org/cari)
   - Tool development—team-oriented code development of GIS-specific
   landscape analysis tools
   - Science-driven methods development—collaboration with SFEI and partner
   scientists to answer environmental management questions with GIS
   - Data acquisition—sleuthing out GIS datasets and/or GIS contacts from
   various agencies, counties, cities and special districts
   - Data management—organizing and maintaining GIS data in accordance with
   SFEI’s on-line data management protocols
   - Cartography—production of high-quality maps
   - Project management—tracking project progress and time management

Qualifications

We seek a candidate that can bring a strong technical GIS background and an
inquisitive and creative approach to environmental problems and data
creation. This candidate should have a minimum of 2 years of experience in
a professional GIS setting and thus have the organizational and project
management skills to work both with the larger GIS team and on specific
tasks independently.

If you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align
perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you
to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of
our other roles.
Required Skills

   - Minimum of 3 years experience with ESRI's ArcGIS Desktop / ArcGIS Pro,
   ArcGIS Online, ArcServer, spatial data manipulation and formats including
   Arcpy, data management, and analysis toolboxes
   - Strong technical capabilities in multiple GIS areas such as spatial
   analysis, data acquisition, management, display/visualization, spatial
   statistics, remote sensing, raster analysis, and image classification
   - Experience with automated mapping work flows including segmentation
   and machine learning or rule-based classification
   - Experience with GIS scripting/tool development with ArcPy, GDAL/OGR,
   PostGIS, R, QGIS, or Google Earth Engine programming language(s)
   - Experience or interest using GIS for natural resource management
   - Exceptional attention to detail and problem-solving skills
   - Motivation to gain and develop new technical skills
   - Ability to manage time effectively on multiple projects
   - Capability to works productively in a collaborative team setting
   - Ability to work independently and follow through with tasks under
   general guidance from supervising staff
   - Effective written and verbal communication skills—ability to
   communicate technical information to non-technical clients

Preferred Skills

   - Training and experience in the environmental sciences (e.g., coastal
   and wetland science, biology, geology, landscape architecture, and aquatic
   ecology)
   - Experience with automation of GIS workflows
   - Experience using Object Based Image Analysis (OBIA)


   - Experience with eCognition Software
   - Experience with and interest in keeping up with advancing and emerging
   technologies, e.g., object detection, machine learning, lidar,
   multispectral imagery, Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS)/drones, etc.
   - Experience with the complete project lifecycle from conceptualization
   through requirements definition, design, development, testing
   implementation, maintenance, and user training as it applies to GIS related
   technology
   - Experience in photo interpretation of wetlands, flood infrastructure,
   and/or vegetation

*Benefit Highlights*







   - Matching contributions to retirement plan (403b)
   - Medical Insurance: health, vision, dental
   - 12 paid holidays, plus vacation days starting at 3 weeks/year
   - Hybrid workplace

Salary Range



$69,000 - $78,000 (dependent on experience)





*About SFEISan Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization which has a 30-year track record of providing robust and
innovative science to decision-makers, policy-makers, practitioners, and
community members to measurably improve the health and resiliency of
Bay-Delta ecosystems. As a boundary organization, SFEI operates at the
interface between science and policy, recognized nationally for our ability
to build consensus to support effective environmental decision-making and
policy. Our mission is to deliver visionary science that empowers people to
revitalize nature in our communities. SFEI employs an interdisciplinary
staff of more than 70. Our operations and IT staff are the backbone of our
organization and keep everything running smoothly. SFEI has three major
programs: Clean Water <https://www.sfei.org/programs/clean-water>,
Environmental Informatics <https://www.sfei.org/programs/ei>, and Resilient
Landscapes <https://www.sfei.org/programs/resilientlandscapes>. Our program
staff represent numerous scientific and technological fields, including
chemistry, modeling, ecology, wildlife biology, landscape planning,
historical ecology, geomorphology, geospatial analysis, and web
development. For more information on our mission, values, programs, and
staff, visit the San Francisco Estuary Institute website
<https://www.sfei.org/about>.Equal Opportunity & Affirmative Action
EmployerAt SFEI, we celebrate the diversity of our staff and the places we
serve, and recognize the value and strength of diversity. We are committed
to growing together and creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace. In
2022, SFEI developed and adopted mission and vision statements for DEIJ
<https://www.sfei.org/deij-statement> within and beyond our organization.
We also created an action plan which is currently underway. We strongly
encourage applications from women-identified people, people of color, and
people with other identities commonly under-represented in environmental
science. We invite you to share what you like about your professional
experience as well as about yourself personally. San Francisco Estuary
Institute is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
We are committed to providing employees with a work environment free of
discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions are
based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without
regard to race, color, religion, sex, including sexual orientation, gender
identity or expression, national origin, physical or mental disability,
family or parental status, protected Veteran status, or any other
characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local
law.Accommodations StatementIf you are a qualified individual with a
disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request an
accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access
our website or application portal as a result of your disability. To
request an accommodation, contact us at 510-746-7355 or admin at sfei.org
<admin at sfei.org>.Please note that SFEI cannot sponsor an employment visa
(e.g., H-1B) to fill this position.In the spirit of a fair hiring process,
no phone calls please.*
APPLY TO: https://www.sfei.org/about/employment-opportunities


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Anna de Lopez
Administrative Services Associates
San Francisco Estuary Institute
4911 Central Avenue
Richmond, CA 94804
Office: 510.746.7358
Cell: 415.608.4945
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