GIS Analyst w/Southern Utah Wildlife Alliance

Closing date: 2022-12-23
Position: GIS Analyst
Organization: Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
Country: United States
State: Utah
Contact: Creed Murdock
Contact Email: creed@suwa.org


Description
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) is hiring a full-time GIS Analyst in our Salt Lake City office. The GIS Analyst works closely with the GIS Manager and Legal Director to meet all GIS-related needs for the organization. Regular tasks include performing spatial analysis, automating workflows and developing script tools with Python, creating professional map products, managing web-based maps and applications, and managing data and workflows for field-based activities. The analyst’s primary role is to fulfill work requests and lend GIS expertise to other staff in support of SUWA’s legal, policy, organizing and legislative campaigns.

This position is also responsible for the back-end management of field data collection, including creating and managing web maps for ingestion into Field Maps, troubleshooting offline map download and sync issues, and post-processing of collected data. The GIS Analyst is also encouraged to lend new perspectives to existing workflows and creatively develop new projects that support SUWA’s mission.

Find the full job announcement at suwa.org/careers/.

About Organization
The mission of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance is the preservation of the outstanding wilderness at the heart of the Colorado Plateau, and the management of these lands in their natural state for the benefit of all Americans.

​SUWA promotes local and national recognition of the region’s unique wilderness character through research and public education; supports both administrative and legislative initiatives to permanently protect the Colorado Plateau wild places within the National Park and National Wilderness Preservation System, or by other protective designations where appropriate; builds support for such initiatives on both the local and national level; and provides leadership within the conservation movement through uncompromising advocacy for wilderness preservation.