Senior Geospatial Analyst

**Job Title**:Geospatial**Analyst **/**Senior Geospatial Analyst

**Role type**: Permanent, full time

**Location**: Wellington

**Salary range**: BTIS Salary Range: E-F $84,243 to $110,000 depending on skills and experience_ _

**Korero mo te Turanga - About the Role**

We are looking for one Geospatial Analyst and one Senior Geospatial Analyst. You will be part of the Geospatial team within the wider Data & Information group as part of our Business Technology & Information Services directorate. Your primary responsibility will be to administer the Geospatial platform and manage our core Geospatial data assets.

In addition to managing the platform and data, our Geospatial team support access, sourcing, management, and the use of geospatial data. The team develop data standards, frameworks, and build the structures which hold our geospatial data.

You will source, prepare, and transform data to make it useful to MPI staff, as well as assessing its compliance with our standards and address any gaps.

**Mou - About You**

To be successful in this role, you will have proven experience delivering geospatial products, and an understanding of the product life cycle. Ideally with advanced skills in ArcGIS (Desktop, Enterprise and Online) and FME (Flow and Form) software.

Importantly, you will have a strong customer focus and be comfortable liaising with stakeholders at all levels, with the ability to communicate clearly and effectively to explain concepts, illicit information, and influence stakeholders as required.

**Mo to matou Ropu - About the Team**

The Geospatial team is passionate about transforming data into actionable insights. The team works collaboratively with all MPI's business units to deliver fit for purpose geospatial solutions. The geospatial solutions assist MPI to collect, analyse, and visualise geospatial data to help deliver MPI's operational and strategic priorities. Be part of a team dedicated to making a difference through innovative geospatial solutions.

**Mo te Manatu Ahu Matua - About MPI**

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) partners with New Zealand's food and fibre sector to be the world's most sustainable provider of high-value food and primary products.

**Nga hua o te mahi i te Manatu Ahu Matua - Benefits of working at MPI**
- Additional MPI leave days
- Annual Wellness payment
- Bi-annual paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames

**Nga Taki Whakahaumaru - Security checks**

**Low level Security Clearance**
- most preferably a New Zealand citizen, who has **resided continuously in New Zealand**for at least the last **five (5) years**, OR
- is a citizen of, **and/or has resided continuously** in one or more of the following countries for the last **five (5) years**: either Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom (UK) or the United States of America (USA); **and** has a background history that is verifiable and can be assessed as appropriate by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) towards a recommendation of suitability for a security clearance at this level.
- click here to find out more about the national security vetting process and access the eligibility self-check tool.

**Kua rite koe mo tenei mahi whaitake? - Are you ready to make a difference?**

We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapu, whanau and hapori.

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes, and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.

**Applications close at 11:59pm on Sunday, 2 February 2025**

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