GIS Manager

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Receives direct supervision from the Director of Planning and Building Services Director and/or Deputy
Director. Supervises professional and technical staff assigned to the GIS Division. The GIS Manager is
responsible for the overall vision, design, management, and leadership of the County’s enterprise GIS
program, including the management of the County’s GIS technology, services, and geospatial data. The
Geographic Information System (GIS) Division is currently housed in the Planning and Building Services
Department. The County’s GIS is a highly integrated complex enterprise system based on the ESRI
platform, which is used as a basis for operations in many County departments. Performs services
administration and infrastructure integration design between GIS and other County business systems
such as asset management, work management, permitting, document management and financials.
Provides comprehensive planning and system architecture design of GIS database and application
systems for all GIS integrated business functions of the County. Establishes workplans and methods for
providing GIS services and implementing the County’s GIS policies and procedures. The major duties
of the job include:
1. Leads and manages the County’s GIS program providing vision and direction to County staff in the
utilization of GIS and promoting GIS effectively as a business solution. Manages the
implementation, development, and services delivery of the GIS including strategic planning,
coordination, prioritization, and goal setting.
2. Manages, defines, and monitors the services of the enterprise GIS. Coordinates all data standards,
processes, and workflow to ensure that GIS data and services meet requirements. Ensures that
data, security, and system standards are maintained by all users of the GIS system from all
departments throughout the County. Enforces data standards, procedures, and workflow for all
information in the enterprise GIS.
3. Plans, organizes, coordinates, assigns, and evaluates the work of professional and technical staff
in the GIS Division. Reviews daily accomplishments of the assigned GIS staff and modifies
personnel assignments as necessary. Conducts performance evaluations on the assigned staff.
Reviews job descriptions and participates in the hiring process of GIS staff in all departments
throughout the County. Responsible for coaching and corrective actions and participates in
disciplinary actions.
4. Provides technical direction and coordination of all County GIS staff who perform editing, data
manipulation or analysis of enterprise GIS data. Leads the Countywide GIS coordination team and
GIS user group.
5. Manages and prioritizes all GIS enterprise level modifications and updates. Coordinates
communication on system and project status with other County departments. Directs team function
as a Countywide technical resource for GIS development and integration, based on Countywide
work priorities and work plans.
6. Acts as project manager for GIS software purchase, implementation projects, custom GIS and
database applications, development services and digital mapping services. Plans, organizes, and
develops project outline. Communicates with team members and acts as liaison between vendors
and stakeholders.
7. Protects and advances the business needs of the County following best practices for technology
contract negotiations. Prepares and manages capital improvement budget for GIS. Develops
improvement goals and priorities based on budget. Presents team recommendations to GIS
Steering Committee.
8. Recommends preliminary annual budget for the Division. Forecasts funds needed for staffing,
equipment, and projects.
9. Manages and coordinates GIS application and integrated database customization and other
related technology projects based on business needs of the County. Coordinates and assists the
development and integration of business applications and databases with the GIS system. Assists
in the development of procedures and application and database integration to eliminate
redundancy and improve efficiency.
10. Develops requests for information (RFI’s) and requests for proposals (RFP’s) for GIS projects.
Reviews proposals to ensure that vendors meet minimum requirements, performs analysis of
software systems and assists with software selection processes. Performs cost-benefit analyses
as needed. Recommends upgrades, changes and new software purchases to the Information
Technology Services Department (ITSD) Director, the Systems Steering Committee, or to County
leadership. Provides technical support to assigned County System Team(s) or project teams.
11. Stays current with GIS-related developments, trends, and changes, GIS data management
technology, equipment and related hardware and applications software. Recommends upgrades,
changes, and new software purchases to the appropriate department head in the above areas.
12. Attends conferences, user group meetings and trainings as necessary. Encouraged to lead, speak,
teach and participate as a leader in GIS groups.
13. Supervise the use, care and operation of GIS equipment.
14. Serve as project lead for special GIS projects including the planning, system integration, database
development, implementation and application development; meet with various GIS users and
Information Services management to plan and discuss system requirements; provide project status
updates as needed.
15. Serve as system administrator for GIS ensuring that application software and hardware operates
efficiently and meets the County’s needs for information technology; update layers as changes
occur.
16. Plan and develop Countywide user training for geographic information systems; develop policies
and procedures for users and output requirements for GIS services.
17. Coordinate GIS activities with other staff, the public and private agencies as needed.
18. Represent County geographic information systems interests to various governmental agencies,
professional organizations, and to the community as needed.
19. Perform related duties as required

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities
is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:
Education:
Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree with a major in geographic information systems, information
technology, civil/structural engineering, architecture, or a closely related field is preferred (job related
geographic information system experience may be substituted on a year-for-year basis).
Experience:
Four years of increasingly responsible geographic information systems experience.
License:
Possession of or ability to obtain a valid California driver’s license.
Prefer certification as a GIS Professional (GISP) by the GIS Certification Institute