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The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is dedicated to protecting native fish and wildlife, and providing sustainable fishing, hunting, and wildlife, viewing opportunities for millions of residents and visitors. Working throughout the state, WDFW's employees: field biologists, enforcement officers, land stewards, lab technicians, customer service representatives and others - manage hundreds of fish and wildlife species, maintain nearly a million acres of public wildlife lands, provide opportunities for recreational and commercial fishing, wildlife viewing and hunting, protect and restore habitat and enforce laws that protect fish and wildlife resources. Find out more about us and the important work we are a part of at www.wdfw.wa.gov Information Technology Specialist 5 (Permanent) This recruitment is to fill a full-time permanent position within the Wildlife Program Science Division and is stationed at the Region 1 Office, located at 2315 Discovery Place, Spokane Valley, Washington. This is an exciting opportunity to work in the Wildlife Science Division, providing data management and analytic expertise to support and provide best available science which is used to drive protection, preservation, management, or restoration of wildlife within Washington State. This position is located in the Wildlife Survey Data Management (WSDM) unit which is responsible for spatial and tabular database design, analysis, application development and scripting, data design consultation, and customer service and support. If selected as the top candidate for this position, you will play an integral role in developing and maintaining tools which make use of the latest geospatial data technologies for biological-based desktop, internet, and mobile data collection. In addition, you will contribute to the WSDM team efforts to redesign and modernize key corporate harvest data management and analysis routines. This recruitment is to fill a full time permanent position within the WSDM unit. You will serve as an expert level regional data and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) support analyst on high risk/high impact, mission critical, agency-wide wildlife data systems projects and participate in design, development, and maintenance activities on WSDM databases, applications, and analytical routines including the generation of annual big game harvest summaries and projections. Providing data and geographic information system (GIS) products to Olympia and regional staff which are used in public presentation and meetings is a key duty of this position. Quality and accurate data products are key to ensure success and public confidence in decision making. You will be responsible for providing expert consultation and primary cartographic, analytical, and database design support for east-side regional data and GIS projects. This position performs work under the guidance of State and Federal regulations, agency policies and procedures, and applicable collective bargaining agreements. The employee reports to an Information Technology System/Applications Specialist 6 and interacts with other agency personnel, other government agencies, non-governmental organizations and the general public. Work is assigned both in writing and verbally depending on the assignment. Employee is responsible for devising own work methods for analyses performed for regional personnel the majority of the time (70%). Duties: This position will be responsible for: * Designs, develops and maintains geospatial, tabular and statistical database and software applications. * Performs technical analysis and consulting activities on high risk/high impact projects to the agency * Serves as project leader for wildlife data development and analysis. * Develops standards, methods, policies, and procedures for management of Wildlife Program data systems. * Provides programming and data modeling support for data system redesign and data outreach projects. * Conduct training and support of database and software applications. * Travel to east-side regional offices for GIS and data support, to assess regional project needs, and to interact with clientele.  The 2015 GIS in Action Conference Committee is hard at work planning for this year’s joint conference, May 4 – 6 at the Hilton Vancouver Hotel and Conference Center in Vancouver, WA. We would like to share the following conference news with you. Abstracts Reminder - Abstracts for the 2015 program are currently being accepted. This is your chance to be a part of the program, receive a $60 conference discount and earn professional certification credits. Click here for the Call for Abstracts. All abstracts are due February 9th. Workshops The Washington and Oregon chapters of URISA and the Columbia River Region of the ASPRS invite you to submit a proposal to conduct a workshop for the GIS in Action 2015. We are seeking instructors to give educational presentations and workshops on a wide range of GIS topics. All submissions are welcome and will be evaluated as a potential workshop focus. All submissions are due by February 10th. Please see the Call for Workshop Proposals for further details. Or email questions to[email protected]. Richard “Dick” Thomas Memorial Student Presentation Competition & Award WAURISA announces the 9th annual Richard "Dick" Thomas Award. This award was established to honor Washington State GIS pioneer and mentor Richard ‘Dick’ Thomas, who passed away in 2006. The intent of this award is to honor Dick by continuing his work of encouraging students to excel in their studies and to transition successfully into careers in the field of GIS. Please see the Complete Guidelines and Competition FAQs for more information on how to enter the competition. The Summit Award The Summit Award is presented during the annual Washington GIS Conference for highest contributions by an individual to the Washington State GIS Community. WAURISA is now accepting nominations for The Summit Award. The deadline to submit a nomination is April 20, 2015. Please visit The Summit Award Nomination page to review the criteria and make a nomination. More information More information is coming soon for vendors, registration, the poster contest, and social events. Be sure to check out the GIS in Action website. Registration for GIS in Action will open soon.  The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) is excited to announce the opening of our 2015 Scholarship Program. USGIF is dedicated to assisting promising students interested in geospatial sciences with scholarship awards to further the advancement of the geospatial intelligence tradecraft.
With your help, we can make our 2015 Program the most successful yet. Please pass along this information to your contacts and/or students and download our 2015 Scholarship Program flyer.
Students studying in fields such as geography, political science, physics, computer science, engineering, biology, anthropology, sociology or any field in the natural and social sciences are encouraged to apply. Through the USGIF Scholarship Program, the Foundation strives to communicate to students the breadth and power of GEOINT in serving national, global and human security interests. The USGIF Scholarship Program endeavors to support students with innovative ideas for problem-solving within geospatial science and technology. Please share information about this scholarship program with your students. For more information on the USGIF Scholarship Program or to download applications, please visit: http://usgif.org/education/scholarships. Deadline to apply: April 20, 2015 |
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