GIS Trainer and Support Officer

GIS Trainer and Support Officer

Job reference: REQ0781

Salary: £34,028 - £36,302 + 27% Employer pension contribution

Contractual hours: 47

Basis: Full time

Region: National

Job description

Forestry and Land Scotland manages and protects Scotland’s national forests and land. Join us and take pride in helping look after something incredibly valuable to the people of Scotland and its visitors – Scotland’s national forests and land.

This post is embedded in the Forestry and Land Scotland Planning & Environment team, providing strategic direction, support and guidance to the five forest regions across Scotland in delivering agreed corporate targets, maintaining UKWAS (UK Woodland Assurance Standard) certification and contributing to smooth and efficient running of the business.

This role will primarily deliver training through a variety of means such as Microsoft Teams, classroom lessons, 1-1 sessions and the creation of learning plans. The role will also include delivery of technical support to GIS users, assisting in the roll out of GIS systems/tools, data model development, managing distributed datasets and to provide data analysis to Forest Regions and other specialists functions across Scotland.

Main Duties

• Lead in training to small groups of GIS and non-GIS users in the use of Esri developed

         applications such as ArcPro, Field Maps and web-based systems.

• Provide cover for the Logger support desk which provides GIS guidance, advice, user

         permissions support and investigation of technical issues.

• Deliver a data analysis service for different parts of the organization.
• Provide support for the organisation in managing data & developing data models.

For more information, please see the Job Description and Success Profile.

Closing date: 26 May 2024 at 11.55pm.