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Forest Resiliency GIS Analyst, Data Consultant 3 Recruitment #2022-3-7986 This is a Full-time, Permanent, Represented position. Location: Olympia, WA. Want to join something GREAT and make a difference? The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has an exciting opportunity within our Forest Resilience Division’s IT and Data Management program. Are you someone who loves utilizing data, analyses, and information technology tools to inform solutions to natural resource challenges? If you value Washington’s forests from the mountaintops to our urban centers and you have a passion for data and GIS, then this job is for you! The DNR’s Forest Resilience Division is seeking a motivated individual to join our IT & Data Management team to support our statewide work on forests across all-land ownerships with a particular focus on urban forestry. This position serves as a member of the IT and Data Management Team within Forest Resilience Division’s Planning, Science, and Monitoring Section responsible for collecting, stewarding, analyzing, interpreting, and consulting on data, processes, and systems across all-land ownerships in Washington to inform the development, implementation, monitoring, and revision of strategies including the Forest Action Plan, 20-Year Forest Health Strategic Plan: Eastern Washington, and Washington Wildland Fire Protection Strategic Plan, as well as legislative requirements. This position will primarily provide GIS data stewardship, analysis, and technical assistance for the Urban and Community Forestry Program. This highly collaborative role includes serving as a lead consultant to program staff and project teams in urban forestry data stewardship and analysis to provide empirically grounded and feasible recommendations. In collaboration with program staff, this position will identify priorities for delivery of UCF Program services through review of datasets on tree canopy analysis, environmental health disparities, salmon and orca recovery, DNR forest health strategic plans, and other data as needed. The position will conduct research and analyze the needs and opportunities related to urban forestry data in Washington by assessing tree canopy cover and urban forestry inventory data, while leading project teams to utilize existing recent tree canopy study and inventory data when available. The position will make recommendations on when to add additional canopy analysis and inventories in regions where adequate data is not available. Finally, in collaboration with program staff and local governments the position will identify spatial priorities for implementation of urban forestry programs determined through the use and review of analyses and tools including canopy analysis and inventory, environmental health disparities mapping tools identifying highly impacted communities, salmon and orca recovery data, DNR forest health strategic plans, and other data as needed. This position will contribute to program specific communications products through tools such as ArcGIS story maps and web applications and facilitate field data collection to contribute towards planning and monitoring of forest resiliency investments. The position will integrate urban forestry GIS data into the Forest Health Tracking System and investment reporting tools and support other Forest Resiliency programs with data collection, maintenance, and reporting. This position will provide innovative ideas to meet the growing needs of the new Forest Resilience Division’s business and information technology operations including support for planning, science, monitoring, and implementation of forest health and resiliency actions that DNR leads, contributes to, or promotes. This position may supervise contracts for IT and business improvement services. Duties Responsibilities:
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