Job Description

CLOSING DATE: JUNE 20, 2024

About the Montgomery County Department of Police (MCPD)

Our mission is to safeguard life and property, preserve the peace, prevent, and detect crime, enforce the law, and protect the rights of all citizens. Committed to working in partnership with the community to identify and resolve issues that impact public safety and committed to providing the highest quality of law enforcement services to the community with the goal of enhancing the quality of life within Montgomery County.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING :

Montgomery County Police Department is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Information Technology professional for the position of Information Technology Specialist II - Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst. Under direction of the GIS Manager, this position will perform GIS work with multiple and evolving projects that integrate Police and general Public Safety data and systems and interface with other agencies to determine appropriate GIS applications and methods to solve business needs. This role is critical to IMTD and Public Safety being able to keep our GIS data current for the Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and other mission critical Public Safety systems.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Creates, edits, and maintains critical Public Safety GIS data used in the county's CAD system and other public safety applications.

• Uses various tools within Esri ArcGIS Products (ArcGIS Pro and ArcMap) and concepts (e.g., topology) to create, maintain, digitize, and perform QA/QC for the Public Safety and Police GIS Enterprise database within versioned and non-versioned environments.

• Creates, uses, and tests network datasets using the ArcGIS Network Analyst extension for emergency vehicle routing.

• Assists with designing and maintaining Public Safety and Police geodatabases to include metadata creation and maintenance, updating fields and domains, creating and editing attribute rules.

• Participate as a vital member of the Public Safety GIS Team - must follow direction, pay close attention to detail, and employ critical thinking skills.

• Conduct meetings with users, vendors, and technical staff for various purposes.

• Develops and produces various geospatial models (ArcGIS Modelbuilder, Python), data outputs and maps related to law enforcement analysis projects such as crime analysis, policy & planning, demographic trends, police boundary site selection and delineation, public safety access and routing, emergency preparedness and response, and imagery mapping. As well as using ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise to meet departmental initiative, strategic goals and needs.

• Performs evaluation of law enforcement needs using spatial tools for suitability, capability, estimation, and prediction.

• Serves as an agency resource on geospatial analysis and stays up to date on new analysis techniques and tools and test new software as they come available.

• Assists agency users with geospatial analysis projects and questions.

• Develops, implements, and maintains user applications in ArcGIS Enterprise (ArcGIS Experience Builder, Survey123 Connect, Quick Capture, Instant Apps, Web App Builder, Configurable ArcGIS apps, StoryMaps, ArcGIS Dashboards, Field Maps, etc) for staff and the public to solve complex business problems. Coordinate GIS training and guidance as needed.

• Creates cartographic products for the department in ArcGIS Pro using advanced cartographic techniques.

• Keeps maps updated when data changes.

• Assists in maintaining the department's large format printer (plotter).

WHO WE ARE SEEKING:

The ideal candidate will possess strong knowledge of GIS fundamentals and be able to create, edit, maintain, and perform analysis on geospatial data, specifically using the Esri ArcGIS Platform.

Candidates who are GISP certified are encouraged to apply. Home (gisci.org)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION :

This position requires the ability to attend meetings or perform work at locations outside the office and may involve some weekend or evening work as a normal course of duty.

Physical Ability: Ability to lift boxes containing computer support items and equipment such as printers, computers, modems, and monitors weighing up to 50 pounds.

To ensure a positive workplace and to comply with federal, state and County laws, the incumbent is responsible for completing mandatory trainings within the first three to six months or within the specified timeframe.

For information about Montgomery County Government's comprehensive benefits package, please visit the MCG Total Rewards webpage and check out our competitive benefits!

Additional Employment Information

OHR reviews the minimum qualifications of all applicants, irrespective of whether the candidate has previously been found to have met the minimum requirements for the job or been temporarily promoted to the same position. This evaluation is based solely on the information contained in the application/resume submitted for this specific position/IRC.

Montgomery County Government is an equal opportunity employer, committed to workforce diversity. Accordingly, as it relates to employment opportunities, the County will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, in accordance with the law. Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact the Office of Human Resources via email to OHR@montgomerycountymd.gov . Individual determinations on requests for reasonable accommodation will be made in accordance with all applicable laws.

Montgomery County Government also provides hiring preference to certain categories of veterans and veterans/persons with a disability. For more information and to claim employment preference, please refer to the Careers webpage on Hiring Preference .

All applicants will respond to a series of questions related to their education, relevant experience, knowledge, skills and abilities required to minimally perform the job. The applicant's responses in conjunction with their resume and all other information provided in the employment application process will be evaluated to determine the minimum qualifications and preferred criteria status. Based on the results, the highest qualified applicants will be placed on an Eligible List and may be considered for an interview. Employees meeting minimum qualifications who are the same grade will be placed on Eligible List as a "Lateral Transfer" candidate and may be considered for interview.

If selected for consideration for this position, you may be required to provide evidence that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities indicated on your resume.

Montgomery County Ethics Law: Except as provided by law or regulation, the County's "Public Employees" (which does not include employees of the Sheriff's office) are subject to the County's ethics law including the requirements to obtain advanced approval of any outside employment and the prohibitions on certain outside employment. The outside employment requirements of the ethics law can be found at 19A-12 of the County Code . Additional information about outside employment can be obtained from the Ethics Commission website.

Minimum Qualifications

Experience: Two (2) years of professional experience in the information technology field of Geographic Information Systems.

Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field from an accredited college or university, or certifications in specific programming languages or operating systems may be required, depending on the duties of the position. Programming languages might include Visual C++, Visual J++, C++, C, SQL, PowerBuilder, Oracle Developer 2000, and COBOL.

Equivalency: An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted. For applicants possessing very hard-to-find skills which are a critical need to the department/agency, training and certification may be accepted in lieu of full degree requirements.

Physical Ability: Ability to lift boxes containing computer support items and equipment such as printers, computers, modems, and monitors weighing up to 50 pounds.

Preferred Criteria

There are NO Preferred Criteria Assessments . All applicants will be reviewed by the Office of Human Resources (OHR) for minimum qualification. Those applicants who meet minimum qualification will be related "Qualified", placed on the eligible list, and may be considered for an interview. Employees meeting minimum qualifications of the same grade or higher will be placed on the Eligible List as a "Transfer" candidate and may be considered for an interview.

Preference for interviews will be given to applicants with experience in the following:

• Proficiency with ESRI ArcGIS desktop and web-based suite of products including ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise Portal and ArcGIS Online

• Ability to create, edit, maintain, and QC geospatial data (mainly vector) using a variety of toolsets in ArcGIS Pro

• Experience with ArcGIS Network Analyst and network datasets

• Experience creating static and dynamic maps and mapping applications.

• Experience working in Enterprise GIS database environments (SQL Server preferred)

• Ability to process and analyze spatial data.

• A GISCI Certified GIS Professional (GISP).

• Ability to apply principles of analytical problem solving and GIS industry standards to a wide range of practical Public Safety and law enforcement problems.

• Knowledge of Arcade, SQL, and Python languages

If selected for consideration for this position, you may be required to provide evidence that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities indicated on your resume .

Minimum Salary 69222

Maximum Salary 110588

Currency USD