Gis Officer

5 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Scottish Forestry Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 344671**Salary**:

- £34,028 - £36,302- An average of 27% pension contribution and benefits**Job grade**:

- Other- Pay Band 5 / CS EO**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- SF - Operational Delivery**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Location is flexible with regular travel to Edinburgh required.About the job

**Job summary**:
Scottish Forestry is an agency of Scottish Government. Our purpose is the sustainable management and expansion of forest and woodlands to deliver more for Scotland.

Our objectives are to:

- Ensure that sustainable forest management is an integral part of public policy, particularly through leading and co-ordinating the delivery of Scotland’s Forestry Strategy.
- Develop our people and culture to improve performance and resilience, building a dynamic, flexible and modern workforce which serves the forestry sector and wider Scotland well.
- Become a more innovative, efficient and accessible organisation by delivering process improvements, and harnessing digital and technological solutions.

**Job description**:
As a GIS Officer you will provide a geospatial service for Scottish Forestry to achieve the objectives and priorities laid out in our Corporate Plan and the Scottish Forestry Strategy.

**Person specification**:
**Experience**

Essential:

- Wide ranging use of different GIS tools, techniques and data to deliver successful projects
- Track record of successfully working as part of a team
- Ability to clearly and concisely communicate technical information to non-technical audience

Desirable:

- Experience of the creation and update of geospatial data using a variety of digitising techniques
- Awareness and understanding of Earth Observation
- Understanding of forestry, environment and/or land management

**Technical**

Essential:

- Excellent demonstrable use of ESRI’s desktop GIS products
- Management and analysis of large, complex geospatial datasets

Desirable:

- Experience of using ArcGIS Pro
- Experience in Python scripting and/or FME
- Formal qualification in Geographic Information Systems

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- Please see our recruitment portal for further details.
- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)**Working for the Civil Service**:

- The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
- We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).-
- Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.**Contact point for applicants**:
Job contact:

- Name:
- John Mann
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