Spatial Analyst

**About us**:
We are an enthusiastic, supportive team who have a great range of skills and experience.

Our organisation looks for ways to deliver great services and information to our internal and external customers

Customers sit at the heart of everything we do, and we all have an important role to play to deliver exceptional customer service.

Our organisation is committed to flexible ways of working.

We love where we live. That’s why we work so hard to look after our region and the people who live and work in the Waikato region.

**About you**:
**- **We have an exciting new role**
- **We are looking for a person who can have conversations with others to find out business need, then consider ways in which new and emerging technical solutions might be able to be tested out.**
- **This is an opportunity to flex your collaboration and relationship skills across the organisation.**
- **You will also be someone who enjoys considering future technical opportunities looking for solutions that would bring efficiencies to staff and deliver value to our customers.**
- **You will have a desire to learn, to be results and solution-focused, and have sound communication skills**
- **This is a great opportunity to be part of the Spatial Information Section who have significant workloads but have a great can-do attitude, team spirit and a sense of fun.**:
**Qualifications**:
**Relevant degree level qualification (desirably in GIS, geography, computer science or information technology)**

**Experience**:

- **At least 5 years’ experience in a GIS analyst role or 3 years in a similar role**
- **Proven knowledge and understanding of **GIS **Software, particularly with respect to (but not limited to) ArcGIS products operating in a SQL Server Spatial environment**
- **Project management and reporting experience**
- **Proven success at building relationships**
- **Ability to quickly learn how to operate technology solutions to be able to undertake cursory testing of their appropriateness without always relying on a third party**
- **Excellent communication skills - written and verbal**
- **Strategic and tactical thinking skills**

**About the role**:

- **Engage with WRC business groups to identify opportunities where new or existing spatial technologies might deliver business benefits**
- **Collaborate with vendors to find out a range of potential solutions**
- **When appropriate, undertake initial exploration or testing of potential solutions**
- **To co-ordinate the contracts for the projects, be the key point of contact and undertake reporting**
- **Provide cost benefit analysis for the assessed technology solutions**
- **Support business groups with your change management skills promoting their adoption of successful PoC projects**
- **Support the wider spatial analysis and modelling team in design and performing spatial analysis and modelling.