GIS Manager

Responsibilities

• Supervisory Responsibilities: May supervise GIS analysts, technicians, interns, consultants, or contract support.
• Responsible for assigning work, reviewing deliverables, coaching staff, and supporting skill development.
• Ensure data quality, consistency, accuracy, and version control across GIS workflows and products.
• Design and maintain web-based maps, interactive applications, dashboards, and internal or public-facing GIS tools.
• Collaborate with planners, environmental scientists, biologists, cultural resource specialists, engineers, real estate professionals, facilities personnel, and project managers.
• Manage GIS project schedules, priorities, deliverables, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders.
• Train staff and users on GIS tools, mapping standards, and data interpretation.
• Coordinate with local, state, tribal, federal, and private partners to obtain, validate, and share geospatial data.
• Evaluate and implement emerging GIS technologies, automation tools, and best practices to improve efficiency and decision-making.
• Develop workflows and procedures that support compliance, records management, data governance, and accessibility requirements.
• Support stakeholder and public engagement efforts by creating clear, compelling visual materials for meetings, workshops, briefings, and online platforms.
• Supervise GIS analysts, technicians, interns, or consultants.
• Serve as the team’s lead integrator for GIS and geospatial solutions.
• Identify opportunities to improve GIS workflows through quality standards, automation, AI-assisted analysis, and data management tools.
• Collaborate with GIS analysts across our organization to encourage knowledge sharing, consistency, and reuse of best practices.
• Develop and implement strategies to better leverage the collective expertise of distributed GIS staff.
• Provide mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance to GIS analysts at varying levels of experience.
• Evaluate emerging tools and determine their applicability to our GIS operations, spatial analysis, and map production.
• Support the development of scalable, repeatable GIS processes that improve efficiency and output quality.
• Coordinate with project teams and leadership to ensure GIS resources are effectively aligned with organizational needs.
• Help establish standards, workflows, and training approaches that strengthen enterprise GIS capability.
• Promote innovation in the use of GIS while maintaining quality, accuracy, and data integrity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Geographic Information Systems, Geography, Urban Planning, Environmental Science, Computer Science, Natural Resources, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of professional GIS experience, including experience supporting multi-disciplinary planning or environmental programs.
• Demonstrated experience with GIS applications in planning, environmental analysis, facilities, or infrastructure-related work.
• Proficiency with GIS software such as ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, and related ESRI products.
• Strong knowledge of spatial analysis, cartography, data management, and geoprocessing.
• Experience working with large and complex datasets from multiple sources.
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work collaboratively across departments and business lines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in GIS, Urban Planning, Environmental Planning, Geography, Public Administration, or a related field.
• Experience supporting master planning, NEPA documentation, environmental planning, or resource management projects.
• Experience with natural resources, cultural resources, or land stewardship data.
• Familiarity with space management, facility planning, asset inventory, or real property systems.
• Experience developing web maps, dashboards, story maps, and GIS applications.
• Knowledge of SQL, Python, ModelBuilder, Arcade, or other automation and scripting tools.
• Experience with regulatory, compliance, or permitting workflows.
• Knowledge of demographic analysis, scenario planning, and long-range planning methods.
• Professional certification such as GISP.
• Experience supporting public sector, utility, defense, transportation, or consulting environments.