GIS Mapping Specialist (NY, NY)

Job Description
As North America’s leading independent real estate firm specializing in retail leasing, investment sales and consulting services, RKF provides a broad spectrum of domestic and global clients with services ranging from national tenant and owner representation to advisory, consulting and acquisitions/dispositions. With approximately $20 billion in aggregate real estate transactions to its credit, RKF has helped identify scores of real estate opportunities for leading retailers, developers and institutional clients. RKF is headquartered in New York City with offices in Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Northern New Jersey, San Francisco and Toronto.
 
RKF’s Market Research Department leads the industry in sophisticated analysis of demographics, lifestyle information, consumer expenditures and trends.  Our market research team supports our brokers and consultants in the development of retail real estate strategies and decision making tools for retailers and retail property owners. Currently we are seeking a GIS Mapping Specialist to join our team.
 
As the GIS Mapping Specialist your primary responsibilities will include the creation of professional final products using ArcGIS, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. Additionally, you will be tasked with making maps, running demographic analyses and reports, data collection, and maintenance of proprietary databases.
 
Responsibilities (include but are not limited to)

• Create text, logo and aerial maps using ArcGIS and Adobe Illustrator
• Maintain the quality of our proprietary database to ensure accuracy
• Create competition maps from our databases to show proximity to existing or proposed stores
• Create demographic reports using ArcGIS Business Analyst
• Assist in data collection and acquisition
• Research market data pertaining to retail development and store openings

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Visual Arts, GIS or related field
• Strong skills in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
• Experience using GIS particularly ArcGIS and MapInfo
• MS Access skills (Query, Append...)
• Ability to write functions in MS Excel
• Ability to multitask and meet client deadlines
• Familiar with Google Earth and Google Earth Professional
• Detailed and passionate about accuracy
• 2 years professional experience using GIS preferably in a retail or commercial real estate environment
• Experience working with demographic data
• Familiar with basic statistics
• Strong cartographic skills
• Adobe Illustrator experience needed, additional graphics orientation desired
• Real estate experience a plus
• Python or other scripting language a plus (VB, C#...)
• ArcGIS Online

For consideration, submit resume and cover letter with salary expectations to [Click Here to Email Your Resumé]. 

No phonecalls please.