Job Title: GIS Officer (2-year term)
Location: Yellowknife
Department: Education, Culture and Employment
Salary: $96,876 - $115,733
Employment Type: Full-Time, Temporary
We're looking for a Geographic Information Systems Officer (GIS) to join our Culture and Heritage team in Yellowknife. As the GIS Officer, you will be required to use GIS and database management systems to manage the NWT Archaeological Sites Database, which is the authoritative database of all recorded archaeological sites in the NWT (approximately 7,000 records).
This position is required to create effective geospatial methods for addressing cultural resource management issues in the NWT. You will report to the Territorial Archaeologist within the Cultural Places Program (CPP) in the Culture and Heritage Division of the Department of Education, Culture, and Employment (ECE).
If you are looking for a fun and rewarding experience to work with a unique and diverse geographic data, the NWT offers a stunning and varied landscape from tundra and boreal forest to mountains and vast lakes like Great Slave Lake. As a GIS Officer, you will work with rare, rich spatial data sets that are crucial for understanding climate change, Indigenous land use, and archaeological resource management.
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