GIS Technician

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.

Manage capture and processing of 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).

Lead preparation of maps and plans for land hand-back, land transfers and disposals

Derive additional datasets through advanced GIS analysis and processing.

Lead interface between Land & Property and the corporate HS2 Building Information Management, GIS and Digital Engineering teams to ensure standards are maintained.

Adhere to HS2 GIS standards and specifications, through implementation and management of effective quality assurance processes.

Assist with design, development and implementation of new or enhanced data specifications, standards and processes.

Assure spatial data delivered by suppliers to defined HS2 standards.

Provide point of technical expertise and provide support to other areas of Land & Property as required.

Lead collaborative working with suppliers to improve efficiency and accuracy of spatial data delivery.

Preparation of Plans and mapping to support strategic acquisitions on the NPR sections of the proposed route.

Participate in affected property counts for specific issues for the adapted Hybrid Bill undertaking spatial analysis to produce auditable results.

Contribute to exhibits for Select Committee and inputs into wider consenting strategy

GIS projects to help with specific petition issues such as business rates, temporary land take versus permanent land take and other case studies.

Preparation of briefing packs,teach ins and explanatory presentation material in support of the adapted Hybrid Bill

Knowledge of GIS and its application.

Knowledge of data quality techniques and data assurance processes.

Knowledge of stakeholder engagement.

Knowledge of Data Interoperability.

Knowledge Data Protection and Security.

Knowledge of Automation (Scripts and processes).

Knowledge of Information governance.

Knowledge of database design.

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.