Location - Birmingham
Salary - Base salary: £41,092 pa to c.£48,344pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
As a GIS Manager at HS2 you will form an essential element of the Land Assembly process to support safeguarding, discretionary property schemes, property management, compulsory acquisition, land registration and management of Secretary of State for Transport legal interest in land.
About the role:
- Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
- Work with the GIS Technicians to deliver the land plan and mapping requirements of the HS2 Land & Property Team
- Manage and quality assure the GIS outputs to HS2 standards completed by more junior members of the team and provide them with feedback, guidance and mentoring to enable them to grow as GIS professionals.
- Manage capture and processing of L&P acquisition records including registered titles, possessed land, land acquired under discretionary schemes, compulsory acquisition including material detriment, blight notices and payments made under discretionary property schemes (homeowner payments, cash offer payments);
- Provision of guidance to others in plan preparation and derivation of new datasets through advanced GIS analysis and processing
- Interface with Land & Property and the corporate HS2 BIM/GIS team to ensure standards are maintained;
- Ensure all GIS Technicians adhere to HS2 GIS standards and specifications, through implementation and management of effective quality assurance processes;
- Manage the design, development and implementation of new or enhanced data specifications, standards and processes;
- Ensure spatial data delivered by the Land Referencing Consultants (PSC) to defined HS2 standards is subject to regular assurance
- Provide point of technical expertise within the Land Assembly team, and provide support to other areas of Land & Property as required;
Work collaboratively with PSC to improve efficiency and accuracy of spatial data delivery
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About You
Skills:
Management Skills:
- Workload gathering and allocation to relevant team members;
- Ability to coordinate groups of stakeholders and agree requirements;
- Ability to work in a team and independently when required
Communication skills to support training and upskilling, and stakeholder management.
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Software Skills:
- ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise,
- Portal for ArcGIS/ArcGIS Online,
Safe FME
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GIS data automations, transformation, and conversions.
- Data specialism in GIS data and modelling.
- Data quality techniques, processes and analysis.
- Data assurance techniques and processes.
Knowledge:
- Knowledge of GIS and its application.
- Knowledge of data quality techniques and data assurance processes.
- Knowledge of stakeholder engagement.
- Knowledge of Data Interoperability.
- Knowledge of Data Protection and Security.
- Knowledge of Automation (Scripts and processes).
- Knowledge of Information governance.
- Knowledge of database design.
Type of experience:
- Experience of operating within a project/programme environment.
- Data management, and data quality & assurance experience throughout the entire project lifecycle.
- Experience of working within set standards, processes and systems but with an expectation to contribute to decision making on process improvement.
- Experience of large volume intelligent automated mapping production
The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.
It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.
Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.
We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube
Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
