GIS & BI Analyst

Role Responsibilities

Help strengthen Alberta’s resilience. In this role, you will provide technical GIS analysis and business intelligence that directly supports disaster recovery across the province. You will maintain and analyze geospatial and financial assistance data, generate insights on historical and emerging disaster impacts, and develop tools that enhance evidence‑based decision‑making. You will also support the Recovery Branch with data visualization, reporting, and technical coordination to ensure Albertans, communities, and industry receive timely, accurate, and effective recovery support.

•    Provide technical GIS analysis to support disaster recovery, resilience initiatives, and financial assistance programs.
•    Maintain, analyze, and visualize geospatial and program data related to historical and current disaster impacts.
•    Develop and enhance business intelligence tools, dashboards, and reporting practices for the Recovery Branch.
•    Produce data visualizations, infographics, and analytical products for internal and external partners.
•    Support IT related coordination, data maintenance, and technical troubleshooting within the Business Operational Supports unit.
•    Identify trends, generate insights, and contribute to evidence based decision making across recovery and resilience activities.
•    Assist with the development of business standards, best practices, and training materials that strengthen branch operations.

Please click on this LINK to view the job description for this position.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

Creative Problem Solving: Engages the community and resources at hand to address issues. Engages perspective to seek root causes. Finds ways to improve complex systems. Employs resources from other areas to solve problems. Engages others and encourages debate and idea generation to solve problems while addressing risks. 

Develop Networks: Leverages relationships to build input and perspective. Looks broadly to engage stakeholders. Open to perspectives towards long-term goals. Actively seeks input into change initiatives. Maintains stakeholder relationships.  

Build Collaborative Environments: Collaborates across functional areas and proactively addresses conflict. Encourages broad thinking on projects and works to eliminate barriers to progress. Facilitates communication and collaboration. Anticipates and reduces conflict at the outset. Credits others and gets talent recognized. Promotes collaboration and commitment

Agility: Identifies and manages required change and the associated risks.  Identifies alternative approaches and supports others to do the same.  Proactively explains impact of changes. Anticipates and mitigates emotions of others.  Anticipates obstacles and stays focused on goals.  Makes decisions and takes action in uncertain situations and creates a backup plan

Drive for Results: Takes and delegates responsibility for outcomes. Uses variety of resources to monitor own performance standards. Acknowledges even indirect responsibility.   Commits to what is good for Albertans even if not immediately accepted.  Reaches goals consistently with APS direction.

Qualifications

Required:  University degree in Geography, Geomatics, Computer Science, Data Science or related, PLUS 2 years related experience or equivalent as described

Equivalency: Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of 1 year of education for 1 year of experience, or 1 year of experience for 1 year of education

For Example: 
Related 1 year certificate PLUS a minimum 5 years of experience
Related 2-year diploma PLUS a minimum 4 years of experience
Related minimum 6years of experience  

The successful candidate MUST also have: 
•    Experience supporting GIS, spatial data, or business intelligence projects.
•    Ability to develop and maintain GIS tools, dashboards, and spatial applications.
•    Skill in spatial analysis, geospatial data management, and data quality practices.
•    Experience creating data visualizations, reports, and automated workflows
•    Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, or similar visualization tools.
•    Experience with Power Platform tools (Power Automate, Power Apps).
•    Ability to document workflows and support training for non technical users.
•    Strong problem solving, communication, and teamwork skills.
•    Ability to travel with short notice for extended periods of time (i.e. be deployed to support an incident).  Additionally, you must be able to work non-standard hours with short notice for extended periods of time (i.e. weekends, evenings, nights, holidays etc. at times of incident).

Assets 
•    GIS, data analytics, or project coordination certifications.
•    Public sector experience, especially in emergency management or disaster recovery.
•    Knowledge of data warehousing, ETL processes, or cloud geospatial services.
•    Experience with cross jurisdictional data initiatives or open data platforms.
•    Understanding of disaster recovery programs, damage assessment, or resilience planning.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. 

Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

Term of Employment: Temporary Until October 31,2029

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week

Location: Edmonton 

Cover Letter: Please provide a cover letter outlining your skills, knowledge and experience as they relate to the role

Written Assessments: Candidates may be required to complete a written assessment to further evaluate their skills, knowledge, and experience related to the role.

Final candidates may be required to undergo a security screening

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in. 

Links and information on what the GoA have to offer to prospective employees.

•    Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx
•    Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca
•    Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits
•    Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive
•    Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca
•    Positive workplace culture and work-life balance
•    Leadership and mentorship programs