GIS Internship with Oregon Health Authority (PDX)

GIS Internship
 
The Oregon Health Authority’s Acute and Communicable Disease Prevention (ACDP) section is recruiting a GIS intern to assist with project development. This is currently an unpaid volunteer internship. The duration of the internship will be 200 hours.
 
Duties and Responsibilities:
The GIS Intern, under supervision of ACDP and Oregon Tracking staff, will collect and process public water service area boundary data and assist with the construction of an ArcGIS Online site for data storage, viewing and editing. The intern will perform the following functions:
 

• Collect public water system boundary data from public water system administrators, data stewards or support staff in whichever format the data is available including GIS formats, CAD files, customer addresses and hardcopy maps.
  
• Process collected data into an Esri feature class format, projected into a standard coordinate system and attributed with SDWIS data.
  
• Build and organize geodatabases for data storage.
  
• Work with ADCP, Oregon Tracking and DAS GEO staff to build an ArcGIS Online site where DWS boundaries will be uploaded, stored and will be editable by staff with editing privileges. The GIS intern will perform the following duties.

 
 
Qualifications & Requested Skillsets:

• At least two terms of graduate level GIS coursework completed or near completion.
  
• Experience setting up geodatabases and organizing data in feature datasets using ArcCatalog.
  
• Knowledge of GIS data creation techniques including digitizing and attribute tables.
  
• Ability to perform standard GIS processes including: spatial joins, table joins, merges, intersections, unions, buffers, data format conversions, etc.
  
• Knowledge of GIS data projections and coordinate systems.
  
• Experience setting up mapping sites using ArcGIS Online.
  
• Must have personal computer knowledge using MS Word, MS Access, MS excel, Internet or comparable applications.
  
• Ability to document work processes and folder structures.
  
• Good organizational skills.
  
• Must be able to communicate information and request data from public water system staff with different skill levels and expertise.
  
• Ability to work independently and in team settings.
  
• Experience working with CAD files is a plus, but not a requirement.

 
Potential candidates will be required to pass a background check.
 
Please send resumes and inquiries to:
June Bancroft at the Oregon Health Authority
[email protected]
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