GIS Specialist - Head Office

About the role

The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is recruiting a permanent GIS Specialist for its Head Office in Woodmead, Gauteng, within the Agricultural Economics and Advisory Division. The role creates, acquires, integrates, stores and manages geo-spatial intelligence for Land Bank and Land Bank Insurance Company (LBIC), and disseminates information from the Bank's geo-databases to stakeholders while keeping data sets up to date.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate and facilitate geo-spatial research, including analysing user requirements, reviewing existing GIS processes, analysing data flows and models, and supporting prefeasibility data and industry intelligence projects.
• Develop geo-spatial intelligence for the Bank: build crop profiles for farms (maps, risk reports, comparative analysis), produce maps on commodities, markets and agricultural statistics, and carry out spatial analysis.
• Disseminate geo-database information to stakeholders, streamline their attribute databases, source and catalogue geographical data, coordinate GIS availability, incorporate national, provincial and local information, publish third-party datasets for online GIS services and perform reconciliation checks.
• Maintain database quality through continual updates, spatial data cleaning and verification, and oversight of data integrity.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in GIS, Geomatics or Geoinformatics (preferred).
• Experience in a supervisory role within an information management environment.
• Knowledge of the agricultural industry and data analysis for GIS applications.
• Willingness to work extended hours and travel as required.

Required skills

• Microsoft Office
• Cataloguing systems and database principles
• Mapping techniques
• Data analysis in relation to GIS