GISc Technologist Production Grade A

📝 About the role

Gauteng Department of Human Settlements is recruiting a GISc Technologist Production Grade A at Johannesburg. The job involves: conduct all GISc technical functions. You need: Grade 12 + 3-4 year GIS degree + 3 years post-Technologist experience + PLATO registration + driver’s licence.

✅ Key duties

• Conduct all GISc technical functions
• Collect and capture of data from various formats and sources
• Design and implement a spatial database to store the required datasets
• Data manipulation and analysis including quality assurance
• Creation and maintenance of spatial data topology and attributes, format manipulation
• Apply geo-referencing, datum and projection transformations
• Providing technical support relating to software and data usage to geographic information system (GISc) users
• Design, develop and create geo-databases, maps and other related project

🎓 Requirements

• Grade 12 plus three (3) to four (4) years GIS degree or related bachelor’s degree coupled with 3 years post Technologist experience
• Compulsory registration with PLATO. Possession of a valid driver’s licence
• Strong GIS skills with two or more GIS packages (e.g ESRI)
• Ability to use science and Technology effectively and critically
• Knowledge of legal compliance
• Problem solving and analysis
• Conflict management
• Decision making