GIS Analyst w/ Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA), Utah’s largest conservation organization, has an immediate opening in its Salt Lake City office for a GIS Analyst.　 

Interested applicants should send the following materials via e-mail to [email protected]: cover letter, resume, transcript, and 3 references.　 
SUWA offers a competitive salary—based on experience—and excellent benefits (health, dental, retirement plan, sabbatical).　 Materials should be submitted no later than September 20, 2013.

Position Description
The GIS Analyst will support SUWA’s litigation, legislative and advocacy staff and will focus on energy development, Quiet Title Act/R.S. 2477, off-road vehicles, BLM land use planning, and legislative initiatives.　 The GIS Analyst will work closely with issues and legislative staff in SUWA’s Salt Lake, Moab, and Washington, D.C. offices and is supervised by the legal director.

Qualifications include: Master’s Degree in Geography or a related area or a Bachelor’s Degree and significant relevant experience; formal training in GIS and demonstrated professional GIS analytical and cartographic skills, including data development and analysis; excellent research, investigative and analytical skills; competence with aerial photography and satellite imagery interpretation and analysis; excellent general computer skills (e.g. spreadsheet and database applications); ability to organize and manage documents and files; and ability to work independently, quickly and within deadlines.　 A list of sample duties is set forth below.

SUWA’s mission 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 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 Systems, 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 hard-hitting advocacy for wilderness preservation.


GIS Analyst sample duties:

• Provide Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis using both data produced by governmental and non-governmental sources and data developed in-house through scanning of hardcopy maps, on-screen digitization, and database development.
• Prepare GIS cartographic and tabular products for pleadings, in-house support, and other purposes as needed.
• Provide analysis of historical and current maps, aerial photography, satellite imagery, and related information.
• Consult with attorneys on the potential for application of GIS to case development and litigation and provide GIS functions when necessary.
• Consult with attorneys and, where appropriate, provide expert witness testimony in litigation where the opponents have utilized GIS or related technology or data.
• Provide technical support for legislative and advocacy staff with GIS regarding legislative initiatives. 
• Provide task-specific coaching and project review for advocacy staff working with GIS in order to ensure that the desired analysis and/or product is produced.
• Establish and implement standards and templates to ensure that GIS work products and associated analysis and data reflect the organization’s commitment to quality.
• Consult with staff that utilize GIS and identify and implement opportunities to develop a stronger organization-wide program.
• Maintain the organization’s GIS software licensing and technical support through ESRI Conservation Program grants and other opportunities as identified.
  

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