GIS Specialist w/ San Francisco Estuary Institute (CA)

Closing date: 2023-03-17
Position: GIS Specialist (Associate GIS Specialist)
Organization: San Francisco Estuary Institute, Environmental Informatics Program
Country: United States
State: California
Contact: Lauren Stoneburner
Contact Email: [email protected]

Description
SFEI is seeking a GIS Specialist to join the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) team. This position will be a full-time position (40 hrs per week), under the supervision of the GIS Manager. A successful candidate will be enthusiastic, self motivated, and passionate about applying technical GIS skills to address environmental problems. You will collaborate with your colleagues to ensure an optimal relationship between science and policy through innovative approaches to information collection, display, and analysis. Although a strong foundation of GIS skills is required, an environmental science background to enable effective landscape interpretation, change analysis, and mapping is ideal. This is an opportunity to work creatively with other GIS professionals on exciting advanced technical challenges to address some of the most important environmental issues in California and beyond. Your immediate team will include the GIS Manager, Pete Kauhanen, and other GIS specialists, Alex Braud and Regan Murray. However, you will also often work with software engineers, environmental scientists, and experts from across the Institute. For more information about the opening, see [the full job posting here]
https://app.trinethire.com/companies/37269-san-francisco-estuary-institute/jobs/73369-gis-specialist-associate-gis-specialist

About Organization
About SFEI San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which has a 30-year track record of providing robust and innovative science to decision-makers, policy-makers, practitioners, and community members to measurably improve the health and resiliency of Bay-Delta ecosystems. As a boundary organization, SFEI operates at the interface between science and policy, recognized nationally for our ability to build consensus to support effective environmental decision-making and policy. Our mission is to deliver visionary science that empowers people to revitalize nature in our communities. SFEI employs an interdisciplinary staff of more than 70. Our operations and IT staff are the backbone of our organization and keep everything running smoothly. SFEI has three major programs: [Clean Water](https://www.sfei.org/programs/clean-water), [Environmental Informatics](https://www.sfei.org/programs/ei), and [Resilient Landscapes](https://www.sfei.org/programs/resilientlandscapes). Our program staff represent numerous scientific and technological fields, including chemistry, modeling, ecology, wildlife biology, landscape planning, historical ecology, geomorphology, geospatial analysis, and web development. For more information on our mission, values, programs, and staff, visit the [San Francisco Estuary Institute website](https://www.sfei.org/about).