Geographic Information Systems Planning Analyst

5 months ago

Edmonton, Canada Edmonton Catholic Schools Full time

Edmonton Catholic Schools is a large urban school division whose mission is to provide a Catholic education that inspires students to learn and that prepares them to live fully and to serve God in one another. The Division is comprised of over 44,000 students and 5,000 employees in 95 schools plus other sites.

**Geographic Information Systems Planning Analyst**:
**Requisition ID**: 8581

**Hours Per Week**: 35

**Position**: Existing

**FTE**: 1

**Department**: Planning & Leases

**No Months Per Year**: 12

**Position Status**: Permanent

**Employee Group**: OOS

**Rate of Pay**: $70,483 - $88,118

**Posting Closing Date**: 6/14/24

The job’s primary responsibility is to provide expertise in Geographic Information Systems and data and analysis in support of capital planning, program analysis and distribution, student accommodation, school boundary studies, Educational Planning Services programs and operations, and strategic planning initiatives. The incumbent determines internal client needs and proposes optimal GIS and geospatial technologies and solutions to meet business needs.

The job requires development and professional relationships with government, other School boards, businesses, communities, and other non-government organizations for collaboration and information sharing as well as representation of the division at meetings with these groups. The job provides leadership, guidance, and technical advice to division staff in areas of expertise.

**Job Responsibilities Include**:

- Develop and manage the Educational Planning Services database
- Managing master data, including creation, updates, and deletion
- Create best-practice reports based on data mining, analysis, and visualization
- Coordinate with I.T regarding servers and database access and maintenance
- Create processes and procedures for the management of geographic data and reporting products
- Data acquisition: gather data relevant to Educational Planning programs, including but not limited to the following: demographic data, City of Edmonton data, and other school division data
- Database management: collect, organize, and maintain datasets from government partners such as ACU reports, VFA reports, housing and population data, socio-economic data, etc.
- Processing confidential data and information according to guidelines and division policies
- Managing and designing the reporting environment, including data sources, security, and metadata
- Lead the creation of a file structure for geographic data and map files
- Provide Educational Planning and other departments with GIS-related data needs
- Provide data and analytic work to the Division Planners in support of Capital Planning, including Three-Year Capital, Ten-Year Facilities, and Modular Plans
- Support the department through data analysis and mapping
- Support initiatives such as program reviews and boundary reviews
- Work within student information databases and systems
- Assist in monitoring student distribution and school utilization
- Identify trends and opportunities for growth through analysis of complex datasets
- Work with staff to create a GIS plan and vision for the Division
- Prepare analytic reports using different data types to be included in Educational Planning deliverables. These include student migration, In/out boundary analysis, program analysis, student-sibling data, social vulnerability report, etc.
- Manipulate and extrapolate external data sources to support and enrich planning projects
- Lead the geocoding process and analysis
- Assist in the division’s student projections and participate in planning activities
- Coordinate updates of school boundaries for the School Finder tool
- Represent the Division’s interests in meetings with the City of Edmonton, the Government of Alberta, the Edmonton Public School Board, and other educational, municipal, and provincial jurisdictions
- Work with Transportation Services to create an interface for ArcGis to calculate coordinates
- Work with I.T in maintaining and updating the School Finder Tool, School Profile Dashboard, and other I.T and server-related concerns
- Coordinate with Baragar Systems to ensure ECSD’s data are up to date
- Oversees renewal of ArcGIS license
- Managing GIS users and users' roles
- Provide software troubleshooting
- Ensures that systems and software are up to date
- Work with student address information on new processes to define neighbourhoods and coordinates
- Ensure a residence neighbourhood is attached to each student’s file in the digital student records system
- Create and coordinate school enrolment projections for budget and data requests
- Work with unit staff to resolve problems and address software limitations
- Provide support to school-find tools for internal and external stakeholders
- Geo-code students for departments
- Integrate and convert PowerSchool information into GIS files
- Ensure the accuracy of data regarding such factors as an address, age, grade, progra

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