Land Information New Zealand - Business Manager Topographic Database (Closing date 25th January 2013)

Location: Wellington Office, New Zealand

Dept: Customer Services

Salary: Band 8

Open Term

Full time

Applications close: 5pm (GMT + 12hrs) on Friday 25th January 2013.

Be a key player in developing the strategic direction for the

LINZ topographic database business!

This newly created LINZ role is an opportunity to be a part of the development of strategic direction for the LINZ topographic database and mapping business and delivering results through your team.

The role responsibilities will include:

• Developing and implementing a 5-10 year strategic plan for the team
• Providing a business planning framework and driving planning and performance activities for the Topographic team
• Engaging with stakeholders in public, private and third sector to determine their needs
• Driving the team to deliver on stakeholder and user expectations
• Coaching and leading the team

The successful candidate will have:

• Experience in business planning and business development
• Demonstrated experience in team leadership and change management
• Proven strong strategic vision
• Exceptional relationship building skills and a customer focus
• Technical understanding and knowledge of information technology, ideally gained in topographic mapping, GIS, and/or remote sensing domains
• Familiarity with, and an understanding of, Governance, public sector planning cycles, requirements and obligations (ideally)

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ)’s purpose is to maintain and build confidence in location-based information as well as encourage land markets to develop and mature. Our work supports activities as diverse as buying a house, navigating the seas and sending emergency services to the right place.

Apply online and include a CV and cover letter outlining your skills and experience in relation to this role.  In your application, we are looking for evidence of how your skills and experience meet the unique person specifications for this role. Please note that your letter of application will form part of the short listing process.

CH2M HILL: Senior GIS Analyst – Swindon UK

Why CH2M HILL
For decades, CH2M HILL has been a global leader in engineering, consulting, design, program management, construction and operations, working on the most challenging and impactful projects around the world. Through these challenging projects, we develop our people — who transform complex and creative ideas into reality, every day. Join us and together we can work to build a sustainable world. We support you to reach your greatest career goals through continued professional development, a positive work life balance and undeniably cool engineering projects. Join employee-owned CH2M HILL and discover why our diverse team has been consistently ranked as one of the leading employers and repeatedly recognized by FORTUNE magazine as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For”.

Description and Desired Qualifications
Halcrow seeks an enthusiastic geospatial professional to join the UK team to help with the delivery of a number of key geospatial projects, the Senior GIS Analyst will partner closely with the Geospatial Practice Manager to help win work and provide technical expertise on both internal and external projects. A wide skill set is required and you will work closely with other Geospatial team members including specialists in remote sensing, data acquisition and processing, web development and 3D visualisation.

The principal function of the role is to help lead the GIS team through project delivery, business development and provision of technical co-ordination and implementation of all technical aspects of GIS work. You will be the key point of contact for internal and external clients and Senior member of the team developing solutions for business requirements and contributing to bid / proposal writing with the Team Leader and Practice Manager.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide technical expertise and input to GIS related business development
• Assemble project teams, assigning individual responsibilities, identifying appropriate resource needs, and developing a schedule to ensure timely completion of GIS related tasks and projects
• Provide guidance, training and mentoring to other colleagues and act as a key technical GIS contact
• Train other colleagues and clients in the use of GIS and spatial analysis
• Development and maintenance of GIS quality assurance (data translation, data standards and data transfer protocols)
• Data management including data capture and documentation, spatial data translation, data analysis and maintenance of spatial datasets
• Preparation of cartographic outputs for reports, workshops, and marketing purposes

Basic Qualifications
The right candidate should have significant cross sector GIS experience with an emphasis on providing solutions from concept through to delivery with a major client of ours, the successful candidate must have:

• Strong business development track record, client management skills – bid writing and presentation
• In depth knowledge and experience of a range of GIS products and solutions (Desktop, Server, Database and Web)
• In depth knowledge of Data and Metadata Standards; datasources; INSPIRE
• An innovative approach to the application of current GI technologies
• Advanced working knowledge of at least one mainstream GIS product suite
• Good working knowledge of Opensource GIS products and application

An ability to convey technical details to a non-technical audience will be looked upon highly and will be useful for business development activities.

Technical competence in the below is required:

• Usage of a variety of spatial data including Ordnance Survey mapping, remotely sensed imagery, and field collected data
• Programming languages (ArcObjects VBA / .NET)
• Web programming languages JavaScript, HTML
• BSc Geography or related subject
• Masters in GIS
• Professional qualification preferred

What you will find
At CH2M HILL, the greatest challenges provide the biggest rewards. Each day, your drive and creative ideas will be providing solutions that help build a better tomorrow. Whether it is the pride that comes with accomplishment, personal growth or making a difference in the world, you will discover true success in a career that brings out the best in you at CH2M HILL. Ready? Let’s get to work. Developing People through Challenging Projects CH2M HILL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

To apply
If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your CV to boyd.woodruff@ch2m.com

Compass Informatics: .NET C# DEVELOPER with SQL SERVER

Job Category: Developer/Engineer, Analyst (Business/Systems)

Job Type: Permanent

Level of IT Experience: 1-5 Years

Area: Central Dublin, South Dublin

Location: Blackrock

Salary: €40,000 to €60,000 per annum

Salary Description: Salary negotiable. Guideline of €35k-€55k.

Posted: 24/11/2012

Start Date: ASAP

Recruiter: Compass Informatics

Job Ref: Compass_Dev201211

As a particularly active and innovative information and mapping technologies company, we continue to grow our Dublin-based team. We wish to recruit immediately an additional .Net developer to join our systems development team.

EEA PASSPORT REQUIRED. STRICTLY NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES - THANK YOU.

You will have the opportunity to interact with a strong team and will actively develop both your technology and leadership skills.

Core Skills Requirements:
• Strengths in C# coding using MVC.
• Strengths in SQL including stored procedures design.
• Experience in SQL Server 2008+.

Ideal Skills Requirements:
• An interest in development of both Web and Mobile platform solutions.
• Knowledge of SQL Server Reporting Services, Integration Services, and potentially Analysis Services.
• Mapping technologies exposure would be a bonus.
• Product development and release management exposure would be a bonus.

Approach to Work:
• You must show initiative and innovation in your approach and welcome interaction with users and clients.
• Preferably you will have a drivers licence, access to a car, or be otherwise willing to undertake occasional visits to client sites.
• You would engage enthusiastically with your job and undertake learning.

Conditions:
• Salary negotiable. €40k-€60k per annum is a guideline.

Salary negotiable - guidelines only provided. Health cover, flexible working arrangements possible

You must have an EEA passport.

Submit:
Submit your CV at the earliest via email and using subject “Developer2012/11” to –

Gearóid Ó Riain, Managing Director
Compass Informatics
goriain@compass.ie
www.compass.ie

Interviews:
• Interviews will be scheduled, and referees will be contacted in due course.

NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES PLEASE.