The GIS Coordinator conducts planning and surveillance activities related to the measurement and visualization of communicable diseases, health conditions, health resources/accessibility, and public health preparedness activities.
The following will need to be added to essential duties/responsibilities:
- Regularly engage with stakeholders and partners at the GIO, other agencies, state/local health departments, private sector, etc.
- Manage GIS team project work deliverables and deadlines through the use of project management skills (communication, organization, metric tracking, etc.)
- Serve as team leader/point of contact for the Public Health Geographics team under the Data Products program in the Office of Data & Analytics
- Utilize data governance best practices, especially those related to GIS products
- Familiarity with how to utilize GeoAI (or ability to learn the skill)Provide geostatistical analysis, measurements or reports related to communicable disease surveillance, outbreaks, disasters and public health preparedness activities.
- Create and maintain visualizations of data and statistical results.
- Creates and maintain accurate geospatial datasets.
- Develop and maintain workflows that integrate datasets and automate analytical methods.
- Develop web-based applications utilizing both configurable services and customized development.
- Utilizes appropriate geographic information system software and other statistical packages.
- Provides recommendations to supervisors and developers regarding data workflow methodology.
- Assists the IDOH DOC when activated with logistical support.
- Other duties as assigned
Skills:
Knowledge of geospatial concepts Required 2 Years
Knowledge of appropriate cartographic designs and solutions Required 2 Years
Work in ESRI ArcGIS Desktop software Required 2 Years
Work in ESRI ArcGIS Software as a Service platform and configurable applications Required 2 Years
Work with Python, ArcGIS API for Python, ArcPy, and other data science packages including web automation and scraping capabilities Required 2 Years
Work with JavaScript and ArcGIS JavaScript API Required 2 Years
Knowledge of SQL within Oracle and SQL Server platform Required 2 Years
Managerial/supervisory experience within a health-related field, data/technology-related field, or in another comparable field Required 4 Years
Ability to engage with stakeholders and partners at the GIO, other agencies, state/local health departments, private sector, etc. Required 2 Years
Project management skills (communication, organization, metric tracking) Required 2 Years
Experience with data governance best practices (GIS-specific data governance) Required 2 Years
Experience with GeoAI Nice to have 1 Years