Cartography & GIS Specialist w/ The Wilderness Society (remote)

https://thewildernesssociety.careers.hibob.com/jobs/f88d38a8-52f7-4c32-a8b2-4580a8504ce8

About The Wilderness Society
The Wilderness Society (TWS) is the leading conservation organization working to protect America’s public lands and wild places for the health of communities, wildlife, and climate.  Founded in 1935, and now with more than one million members and supporters, The Wilderness Society has led the efforts to permanently protect 111 million acres of wilderness and to ensure the sound management of America’s public lands. TWS addresses the existential threats of climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and deep inequities accessing the benefits of nature.  TWS is working to achieve four major results: protecting 30 percent of America’s lands and waters by 2030, transitioning off of fossil-fuel development on public lands to well-sited renewable energy, securing equitable access to public lands and their benefits, and building a critical mass of support for conservation of public lands.
 
Position overview
The Cartography and GIS Specialist coordinates or leads GIS analysis and cartography as an integral member of TWS’s Cartography and GIS team. This position is part of the Science team yet works collaboratively with staff across all departments to identify opportunities for mapping and spatial data analysis to support our strategic priorities. By contributing technical expertise and analytical rigor to planning, decision making, and communication, this position supports our commitment to making public lands a solution to the climate and extinction crises and ensuring all people benefit equitably from public lands.   
 
This position applies scientific research and novel analysis to deepen the organization’s understanding of conservation priorities, inform science-based recommendations, and bolster our efforts to defend public lands from anti-conservation measures. While this is a technical position, it also requires proven storytelling skills.  Candidates should be team-oriented, but confident in the value of their own ideas, contributions, and roles. 
 
This position plays an important role in supporting an inclusive organizational culture that is grounded in trust and accountability to shared goals and outcomes.  TWS has made diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic priorities for the organization, and the Cartography and GIS Specialist will integrate these priorities throughout our mapping work.  Across our team, we aspire to be campaign oriented, nimble, collaborative, innovative, transparent, and supportive of staff – our greatest asset.
 
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
 

• Advance TWS’s highest priority campaigns by analyzing and disseminating spatial data, producing maps, and consulting on strategy
• Conceive, research, design, and produce polished static and interactive maps tailored to a variety of audiences and purposes
• Using GIS tools, perform complex analyses for a variety of audiences and purposes, in a range of print and digital formats
• Identify opportunities where spatial analysis and mapping can advance TWS’s goals, and coordinate mapping needs across regions
• Manage databases and maintain and create detailed spatial data and web maps
• Exercise independent judgment regarding sources and quality of information
• Translate complex issues related to science, land-management planning, and policy into widely accessible maps and other written or visual content for a range of audiences including federal agencies, policymakers, members and supporters, and digital audiences 
• Stay informed of and trained on the latest GIS technologies, including web applications and interactive maps
• Help the team by providing your creative energy, ideas, critiques, and opinions on optimizing processes
• Assist others in skill areas as needed
• Perform other duties as assigned