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- Posted: December 4, updated December 4
- Type: Full-Time
- Company: City of Miami Beach
- URL: http://www.miamibeachfl.gov/
- Location: Miami Beach, Florida
Description
This is advanced professional technical work managing the development and operation of activities associated with the City Geographic Information System (GIS).
Supervises and performs management of complex integrated computer systems. Maintains, coordinates, and administers the Citywide Enterprise GIS supporting utility and street infrastructure, engineering design and review, facility maintenance, parcel management, planning operations, finance, police and fire and other major departments. Manages the GIS, including the analysis of complex data and the design, implementation, and maintenance of GIS applications. Evaluates, tests and implements programs. Coordinates consultant support as necessary.
Illustrative Examples of Essential Duties:
· Establishes direction of GIS program through interaction with GIS user groups, keeping current with industry trends, and by establishing and maintaining relationships with other GIS professionals.
· Develops and maintains GIS layers/data elements consistent with Federal, City, and industry standards.
· Performs complex research in accumulating, and evaluating the accuracy of, existing and new data elements from a variety of internal and external sources.
· Plans strategies to improve GIS across the City of Miami Beach and submits these plans to the GIS User Group for review and approval.
· Prepares and administers the Enterprise GIS budget.
· Administers the central repository of GIS information and establishes procedures, conventions, quality assurance and documentation for this database system.
· Supervises, directs, and evaluates assigned staff; processes employee concerns and problems; directs work; counsels; disciplines; and completes employee performance appraisals.
· Performs parcel maintenance coordination operations with Miami-Dade County.
· Establishes and maintains coordination with County GIS Department to ensure integrity of the GIS data. This may include establishing intergovernmental agreements, establishing GIS Coordination Groups, etc.
· Adapts and performs spatial analysis to resolve complex GIS mapping problems and develop solutions.
· Digitizes complex and sophisticated multi-layered maps for a wide variety of applications and end users.
· Analyzes user needs and determines the most effective approach to satisfy those needs.
· Utilizes advanced GIS systems and techniques, designs and creates cartographic quality maps for City departments, Commission presentations, Commission reports, television features, etc.
· Establishes, documents, and enforces GIS standards and procedures.
· Provides web-enabled GIS services using best practice techniques.
· Reviews software specifications for new and enhanced Public Works systems and applications and identifies impacts on existing or other planned applications.
· Trouble-shoots and maintains systems; maintains professional relationships with software vendors.
· Provides internal training on GIS resources, capabilities, and applications.
· Participates in defining and implementing strategies.
· Performs other work as assigned.
Minimum Requirements:
· Graduation from an accredited college or university with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, GIS, Engineering Technology or closely related field. Master’s degree preferred.
· Relevant experience in application development or software development management using a relational database management system.
· Four (4) to seven (7) years in designing and implementing GIS enterprise business solutions in municipal government and private industry using ESRI ArcGIS, including three (3) years in a supervisory or program manager capacity working in a GIS environment.
· Must be able to maintain, develop, distribute and promote the use of ArcGIS products. The ideal candidate would have strong managerial skills, extensive GIS experience and be capable of developing and supporting a GIS program using the latest ESRI ArcGIS and Asset Management software.
How to Apply
Apply online at: http://web.miamibeachfl.gov/hr/jobs.aspx
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Journal News Removes Interactive Gun Permit Map
The Lower Hudson Journal News has been under fire for publishing a map of gun permit holders in two counties in New York State before Christma. (APB coverage 1, 2, podcast). On Friday January 18 the paper removed the interactive map. Why? Publisher Janet Hasson gave answers in a media statement and in a letter to readers.
In a statement in response to The Poynter Institute (a journalism school) she argued:
With the passage this week of the NYSAFE gun law, which allows permit holders to request their names and addresses be removed from the public record, we decided to remove the gun permit data from lohud.com at 5 pm today. While the new law does not require us to remove the data, we believe that doing so complies with its spirit. For the past four weeks, there has been vigorous debate over our publication of the permit data, which has been viewed nearly 1.2 million times by readers. One of our core missions as a newspaper is to empower our readers with as much information as possible on the critical issues they face, and guns have certainly become a top issue since the massacre in nearby Newtown, Conn. Sharing as much public information as possible provides our readers with the ability to contribute to the discussion, in any way they wish, on how to make their communities safer. We remain committed to our mission of providing the critical public service of championing free speech and open records.
In a letter to readers published on Friday she wrote:
So intense was the opposition to our publication of the names and addresses that legislation passed earlier this week in Albany included a provision allowing permit holders to request confidentiality and imposing a 120-day moratorium on the release of permit holder data.
She goes on to say that during the 27 days the map was online any one interested would have seen it and that the data would eventually be out of date. She also noted that the paper does not endorse the way the state chose to limit availability of the data.
The original map/article still includes a graphic - but it's a snapshot, a raster image, with no interactivity. Says Hasson in the letter to readers:
And we will keep a snapshot of our map — with all its red dots — on our website to remind the community that guns are a fact of life we should never forget.
I continue to applaud the paper for requesting the data via a Freedom on Informat request, mapping it, keeping the map up despite threats and criticism and now responding to state law. I think the paper did a service to the state, to citizens and to journalism.
- via reader Jim and Poynter
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