Supervisor of GIS

The City of Spruce Grove is a fast growing, dynamic city committed to building and maintaining a fiscally responsible community that serves our residents, attracts visitors, and promotes future growth. 

The “Values, We Live By” are accountability, communication, leadership, integrity, and respect while we work towards maintaining a work/play balance. 

We are an organization that cares, an organization that is committed to our city and committed to you. The City of Spruce Grove is committed to public service, where everyone feels empowered to contribute their best work. We believe that by working together in a spirit of collaboration and respect, we can achieve great things.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The GIS Supervisor is responsible for planning and implementing all aspects of the City's Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The incumbent facilitates operational teams, identifies resources, and establishes project objectives. The employee supervises the GIS team and determines timelines, milestones, and developing standards for GIS deployment and use. This position reports to the Manager of Enterprise Infrastructure and Operations.

The salary range for this position is: $102,083.80 - $121,357.60.

This is a temporary full-time position for six (6) months.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITES:

GIS Operation Management

• Develop and maintain a corporate GIS strategy by participating in the design, implementation, maintenance, monitoring and enforcement of policies, standards, guidelines, and procedures with respect to Geo-spatial data, based on users’ requirements and corporate objectives. 
• Review and maintain an adequate GIS Data Model for the city and administer, monitor, tune and optimize GIS web and application servers to ensure their security, fault tolerance and efficient performance.
• Supervise the maintenance of all City spatial information by applying proven communication, analytical and problem-solving skills to help identify, communicate, and resolve issues and by fielding incoming problem tickets from end users and dispatching work effectively among the GIS technologists. 
• Perform system analysis for integration of GIS with corporate business data and applications, including staff consultation, modeling of GIS databases, and evaluation of technical and end user requirements.
• Apply principles of project management to identify, analyse, develop, and oversee GIS projects that will increase the efficiency of city processes or workflows.
• Administer, review, and improve daily operations of the city's Enterprise Geographic Information Systems (GIS) making the spatial information more widely and seamlessly available across the organization. 
• Provide GIS related technical guidance and assistance to team.

Stakeholder Relations

• Work with stakeholders such as Planning, Public Works, Engineering and Fire to assist with business, technical or operational problems related to the spatial information or applications. 
• Work with all levels of staff to provide troubleshooting advice and recommendations regarding the business use of the associated GIS applications or information.
• Develop training materials and provide technical assistance and training regarding the use of GIS tools and GIS web applications for GIS staff and city departmental users.
• Work closely and coordinate with City Management to integrate GIS technologies to increase workflows or public service efficiencies.

Supervisory Management

• Ensure leadership aligns with the City’s strategic and corporate plans as well as values and guiding principles.
• Provide a high level of coaching, training, and mentoring to section staff in the achievement of their goals and projects on an ongoing basis as well as through the performance management process. 
• Manage the daily operations of the GIS work unit, setting goals and expectations for the team, making decisions regarding staffing matters, stressing the importance of teamwork, ensuring the overall efficiency of the services provided by the team as a whole. 
• Provide the leadership to ensure the efficient and effective ongoing operation of the enterprise-wide programs and services provided by the section as well as continual enhancements to the programs and their processes. 
• Receive and investigate complaints or concerns relative to the delivery of section services and ensure appropriate information is provided or appropriate action taken.
• Respond to customer concerns and complaints using tact and understanding.