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We’re looking for a GIS Specialist to join our ICT and GIS team based at our Head Office in Kendal. The role is the Authority’s lead officer on GIS systems development, data, and support.

As the Planning Authority and a land-based organisation, GIS information is critical to the decisions we take and work we do. As our lead GIS officer, you will develop, deliver and maintain our GIS systems and applications, and provide insight using spatial data. We have an excellent track record of developing in-house solutions and systems unique to the work we do.

What’s it like to work with us?
Our people are passionate about the landscape and proud of the role they play to look after it and help a wide range of people enjoy it. We are innovative and agile in our approach to work, ensuring we get the best from our resources.

We’re a medium size organisation, which puts us in a good position to be adaptive and able to act on our decisions. Whatsmore, our staff know each other and can quickly form workplace relationships to make great team players and problem solvers.

Our ICT and GIS team is a small but highly responsive team and central to work across the whole authority. We have a track record of success in providing colleagues with bespoke tools and applications enabling them to do their jobs in an efficient and flexible way.

We operate a hybrid way of working combining working from home and days at our office base at Wayfaring House, Kendal or potentially at one of our offices across the national park. You’ll be provided with a laptop to enable you to access our secure IT network when working remotely.

The role
Your main duties and responsibilities will be:
• To act as the professional and technical lead on Geographical Information Systems (GIS), developing and delivering appropriate and cost-effective systems in accordance with the GIS Strategy.
• To oversee the work of the GIS Users to ensure that agreed methods, techniques and standards are used in order to ensure a high-quality service is delivered to internal and external customers.
• Facilitate publication and management of public facing geospatial data sets.
• Working with the Database Analyst and GIS Data Officer to manage and maintain spatial data in various formats, including relational spatial databases.
• Act as the Authority’s principal contact with the Ordnance Survey ensuring compliance with the Public Sector Geospatial Agreement.
• Working with the ICT Development Team to enhance the Authority’s use of spatial data within applications, focusing on streamlining processes through automation, and ensuring the integration of GIS with existing systems, web mapping and mobile working.

About you
This opportunity would suit someone who’s highly motivated, innovative and customer focussed, with a passion for problem solving and helping colleagues get the right tools and information when and where they need it.

You will need a broad range of skills across the GIS spectrum, including the use of desktop applications, web-publishing tools, database management of spatial datasets, automation using scripts and ETL software, and spatial data analysis.

Please read the attached role profile for the full person specification on this post.

About us
The Lake District National Park Authority looks after this unique corner of England and UNESCO World Heritage Site. We encourage people to protect, connect and grow as well as supporting those who live and work here. Our staff include rangers and field workers, advisers at our visitor centres, planners and ecologists.

Working with us, you’ll enjoy
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Electric car and Cycle to Work schemes
• Free parking in our carparks
• Paid time off so you can volunteer
• Subsidised healthcare scheme
• Commitment to wellbeing

We’re happy to talk about flexible working – let us know if you want to find out more.

See our website for a complete list of our employee benefits.

Contact
For an informal chat and to find out more, please contact Karl Heap (ICT Services Manager) on 01539 792626 or karl.heap@lakedistrict.gov.uk

We reserve the right to close this advert early should we receive sufficient applications, so please apply early to avoid missing this opportunity.

Diversity and Inclusion
As an equal opportunities' employer, the Lake District National Park Authority is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination based on age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

Disability Confident Employer
We guarantee to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the role. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean that you must provide evidence in your application which demonstrates that you meet the level of competence required under each of the essential criteria, as well as meeting any of the qualification, skills or experience defined as essential.