Salary : $56,742.40 - $84,780.80 Annually
Location : Fayetteville, AR
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 02763
Department: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (170)
Opening Date: 03/05/2025
The City of Fayetteville is committed to attracting, engaging and rewarding a multi-generational workforce. By offering a total rewards package including competitive compensation and benefits plans and a purposeful work life, the City is an employer of choice focused on serving our community.
Essential Job Duties The City of Fayetteville is committed to attracting, engaging and rewarding a multi-generational workforce. By offering a total rewards package including competitive compensation and benefits plans and a purposeful work life, the City is an employer of choice focused on serving our community.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Note: All City of Fayetteville positions require employees to provide good customer service to both internal and external customers, maintain positive and effective working relationships with other City employees (especially members of their own team), and have regular and reliable attendance that is non-disruptive. Other essential duties of this position include the following:
1. Collect, import, and update geographic data from various sources like property records, utility plans, aerial imagery, and field surveys.
2. Ensure data accuracy and consistency by performing quality control checks and data validation.
3. Maintain and update GIS databases, including attribute data and spatial features.
4. Develop and implement data standards and metadata protocols.
5. Conduct spatial analysis using GIS tools to identify patterns, trends, and relationships between geographic data sets.
6. Perform operations like buffering, overlay analysis, proximity analysis, and network analysis to answer specific questions.
7. Generate reports and visualizations based on analysis results.
8. Create thematic maps, base maps, and interactive web maps using GIS software.
9. Design and customize map layouts with appropriate symbology, legends, and labels.
10. Produce printed and digital maps for public use and internal planning purposes.
11. Develop and maintain web-based GIS applications and dashboards to allow users to access and interact with spatial data.
12. Integrate GIS data with other departmental systems to provide a comprehensive view.
13. Provide training and technical assistance to other government staff on using GIS tools and applications.
14. Troubleshoot GIS issues and address user queries.
15. Participate in GIS-related projects, including project planning, data collection, analysis, and reporting.
16. Collaborate with other departments to identify GIS needs and implement solutions.
17. Coordinate with other governmental entities to ensure compatibility of data, and compliance with regional and state standards.
18. Respond in a courteous and professional manner to requests for information and services from City staff, citizens, other governmental agencies, businesses, and non-profit organizations.
19. Occasional evening or weekend work.
20. Perform other duties as assigned.
Secondary Job Duties- Secondary duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications1. Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in GIS or a closely related field and three years of related GIS experience.
2. Must possess a valid driver's license.
3. GISP Certification from the GIS Certification Institute is desirable.
4. Must successfully pass criminal background check, including but not limited to convictions, guilty pleas, or no contest pleas to violent offenses, theft offenses and any offense under A.C.A. 21-15-103 and A.C.A. 21-15-111.
5. Must comply with FBI Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) requirements within 2 weeks of employment.
6. Effectively communicate with others orally and in writing.
7. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret professional journals, technical manuals and procedures, or governmental regulations.
8. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
9. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from customers, groups of managers, committees and the general public.
10. Ability to apply mathematical concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
11. Ability to solve practical problems in real world mapping situations.
12. Ability to read and interpret subdivision plats and engineering design plans.
13. Must be proficient in the use of a computer and related software programs such as word processing and spreadsheet applications. Must be able to effectively operate standard office equipment.
14. Must be proficient with ESRI's suite of desktop and enterprise tools.
15. While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required communicate with others both in person and over the phone, stand, walk, and sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities to accomplish computer and office work.
16. While performing the functions of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions.
The City of Fayetteville is an equal employment opportunity employer. Full Time, 40 or more hours per week, non uniformed employee. Eligible for all City benefits offered to full time non uniformed employees and all full time City accruals of paid leave.
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This position requires a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in GIS or a closely related field and three years of related GIS experience.Do you meet any this requirement?
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The candidate must possess a valid Driver's License.Do you meet this requirement?
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GISP Certification from the GIS Certification Institute is desirable, but not required. Please indicate in the space below if you possess this Certification.
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An applicant for this position must successfully pass criminal background check, including but not limited to convictions, guilty pleas, or no contest pleas to violent offenses, theft offenses and any offense under A.C.A. 21-15-103 and A.C.A. 21-15-111.Would you be able to meet this requirement?
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The candidate must comply with FBI Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) requirements within 2 weeks of employment.Can you meet this requirement?
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This position will have an emphasis on Public Safety and Addressing. If you have experience in these areas, please describe it below.
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Please list the types of 911 dispatch software you have experience with, if applicable.
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This position requires the ability to effectively communicate with others orally and in writingDo you meet these requirements?
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An applicant for this position must have the ability to read, analyze, and interpret professional journals, technical manuals and procedures, or governmental regulations.Do you meet these requirements?
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This position requires the ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.Please discuss in the space below when you have written reports, business correspondence and procedure manuals in your previous job.
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This position requires the ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from customers, groups of managers, committees and the general public.Do you meet these requirements?
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The candidate must have the ability to apply mathematical concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.Do you meet this requirement?
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The candidate must be able to solve practical problems in real world mapping situations as well as have the ability to read and interpret subdivision plats and engineering design plans.Do you meet these requirements?
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The candidate must be proficient in the use of a computer and related software programs such as word processing and spreadsheet applications. Must be able to effectively operate standard office equipment. Do you meet this requirement?
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This position requires the candidate to be proficient with ESRI's suite of desktop and enterprise tools.Do you meet this requirement?
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15. While performing the functions of this job, the employee is regularly required communicate with others both in person and over the phone, stand, walk, and sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities to accomplish computer and office work. Do you meet these physical requirements?
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While performing the functions of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions.Can you work in these conditions?
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