Senior Planner- Physical Planning Geodatabase Management job at National Planning Authority | Apply Now

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, maintain, administer, modify and troubleshoot geo-processes for collecting, integrating, collating, and verifying geospatial data for use within the enterprise geodatabase architecture for integrated physical development planning.

• Design, implement, manage, and maintain geodatabase in a SQL server environment, including a versioned editing environment and topology.

• Ensure geospatial data quality and standard metadata documentation to support integrated physical development planning.

• Provide quality geospatial data to support spatial analyses for coordinated and integrated physical development planning at different levels.

• Design and maintain suitable data repository for approved physical development plans (PDPs) in an easy to retrieve, visualize and analyze format.

• Provide time series geospatial data to monitor the execution of integrated physical development plans.

• Develop physical planning project specific GIS applications, processes and methodologies requiring programming and customization for creation and use of geospatial data.

• Ensure all GIS data and applications are properly backed up, secure and only accessible as appropriate in compliance with the Authority’s policies and privacy laws.

• Provide technical insight and recommendations for potential GIS hardware and software system application purchases or upgrades while optimizing resource allocation and ensuring full system functionality.

• Coordinate with different stakeholders to integrate data from other systems of record to ensure the Physical Planning Geodatabase is always updated.

• Undertake specific geospatial analyses to inform planning and spatial decision-making processes.

• Design and tailor customized GIS trainings for Physical Planners in the local governments and other institutions.

• Provide technical input and guidance in the review and development of appropriate spatial data policies, legislation, strategies, programmes, standards, regulations and guidelines.

• Other roles as defined by the administrative and managerial arrangements in place.