GIS Developer

General Summary/Purpose:

Johns Hopkins University Centers for Civic Impact seeks an energetic and curious professional to serve as its GIS Developer. This is a full-time position which is being added to our rapidly expanding data science team. Currently, the team is working to build out analysis and visualizations for Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, and in the longer term its focus will shift to recovery related tools and analysis development.

The core responsibilities for this role include exploring data and creating GIS visualizations to answer policy-related questions, particularly those which are crucially needed by local governments. Our selected candidate will work with Civic Impact’s Data Scientist as well as other data analysts on our team to create, design, execute, maintain comprehensible data visualizations, summarize key findings, and uncover insights for the public, particularly the COVID-19 US Map. In addition to possessing GIS expertise, Civic Impact is seeking an intellectually curious data analyst committed to unlocking the value of data for the public good.

Civic Impact is committed to working with communities that are focused on ending legacies of structural, entrenched racism and oppression. The GIS Developer must be willing to think about products and projects through the lens of dismantling these legacies.

This position reports to the Centers for Civic Impact Data Scientist.

Specific Duties & responsibilities:

• Develop geospatial solutions which communicate clearly to a wide and diverse audience
• Develop ArcGIS web applications, including web maps, web apps, storymaps, and dashboards
• Design, build, and evolve software solutions in a distributed team environment using source control and sound software engineering principles
• Gather qualitative and quantitative research to build supporting evidence for analyses, visualizations, and insights
• Improve existing geospatial solutions, including the look and feel and layout of data visualizations
• Collaborate with developers, data scientists, researchers, policy experts, and other technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Maintain clear lines of communication with Civic Impact’s Data Scientist, leadership, and others on the team
• Other duties as assigned
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Minimum Qualifications (mandatory):

• Master's degree in related discipline required
• One year related experience required
• Demonstrated ability on significant graduate project or additional doctoral education may substitute for experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula

 
Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, GIS, Engineering, or related field
• 5+ years of experience with programming, geospatial data analysis, and database management: spatial analysis, GIS Modeling, Data Integration & Conversion, Arcmap, ArcSDE, and ArcGIS web applications and creating easily comprehensible data visualizations for maximum insight
• Experience using project management and collaboration software such as Asana and Slack

 
Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Familiarity with public sector data, policies, and stakeholders
• Understanding of qualitative and quantitative research methods
• Knowledge of how to create data visualizations in Python and D3.js
• Knowledge of statistics, experimental design, and hypothesis testing
• Excellent attention to detail and a systematic approach to problem solving
• Excellent oral, written, and research skills
• Excellent presentation skills, especially demonstrating visualizations, data sources, processing decisions, and findings to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Commitment to a collegial workplace
• Capacity to work independently and in a results-oriented workplace
• Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently
• Commitment to support the teams at Civic Impact and its associated centers in the effective development of maps and visualizations
• Ability to collaborate with other Johns Hopkins centers and institutions, as well as external organizations
• Experience with JavaScript, SQL and Python or R, and a desire to continue to develop those skills
• Experience building dashboards and infographics
• Experience working with and understanding a wide range of geospatial data formats
• Knowledge of version control software (GitHub)

Classified Title: Sr. Research Data Analyst 
Working Title: GIS Developer  ​​​​​
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MD 
Starting Salary Range: Commensurate with Experience
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: 5/37.5 
Exempt Status: Exempt  
Location: 01-MD:Homewood Campus 
Department name: 60006654-KSAS - Centers for Civic Impact 
Personnel area: School of Arts & Sciences

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.

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