Senior GIS Specialist

Overview

Your Role

• Maintain Master Plan (MP) governance trackers and controlled document registers (PCPs, Scope Sheets), including version control, audit trails, and structured filing.
• Manage Temporary Plot Plan tracker, GIS layers, and outputs; issue updated trackers/maps to agreed reporting cycles.
• Prepare and maintain subdivision maps/trackers and charter map packs (e.g., DG1/DG2) aligned to latest approved MP materials and templates.
• Provide spatial analysis for deviation, compliance, and NOC reviews (overlays, constraints/clash checks) with clear written and graphic findings.
• Review, QA/QC, and improve KROKI templates and issued KROKIs (layout, attribution, symbology, referencing).
• Coordinate survey data tracking (coverage/status/gaps) and review incoming MP GIS packages against DC standards/schemas; document compliance and corrective actions.
• Produce publication-quality mapping for governance communications (presentations/BOD packs) and coordinate validated updates for publication to the MP GIS Portal.
• Deliverables (expected outputs)
• Current MP Official Documents Tracker and controlled folders (PCPs, Scope Sheets, maps).
• Updated PCPs/Scope Sheets with traceable links to GIS layers and registers.
• Temporary Plot Plans and up-to-date tracker/layers.
• Subdivision and charter map packs (incl. DG1/DG2) suitable for governance review.
• Spatial review outputs (written + graphic) supporting deviation/compliance/NOC decisions.
• Final KROKI templates/KROKIs; survey activity matrix and survey status maps.
• MP GIS package compliance assessments; presentation/BOD map packs.
• Validated datasets/inputs coordinated for publication to the MP GIS Portal.

Essential

• About you
• 15+ years' professional GIS experience in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Experience supporting urban planning/urban design outcomes, including master planning governance or development-control workflows.
• Strong capability maintaining authoritative spatial datasets, registers, and document control processes.
• Advanced spatial analysis (overlays, constraints mapping, clash/conflict identification) and decision-ready outputs.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated experience supporting urban planning or urban design outcomes, including master planning governance or development control style workflows.
• Strong capability in maintaining authoritative spatial datasets, registers, and document control processes.
• Advanced GIS mapping and spatial analysis skills, including overlays, constraints mapping, and clash or conflict identification.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams and providing clear, decision ready outputs.

Technical

• Strong hands-on experience with Esri platforms (ArcGIS Pro) and enterprise/portal publishing environments.
• Confident CAD-to-GIS workflows, layer management, attribution, and spatial referencing.
• Experience in Plot Record Sheets (PRS) or Development Control Regulation Sheets (DCRS).
• Excellent cartographic production (templates, print layouts, consistent map series outputs).
• High competence with tracker-based working (e.g., Excel registers) and structured reporting.
• Strong QA/QC discipline (validation, version control, auditability).
• Experience on major master planning programmes in Saudi Arabia or the GCC.

Desirable

• Familiarity with deviation/compliance/NOC-style governance workflows.
• Experience coordinating survey deliverables and integrating survey outputs into GIS.
• Working knowledge of BIM-to-GIS alignment for coordination checks.
• Arabic language capability.
• Immediate joiner preferably.
• Behavioral competencies
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and rigorous quality standards.
• Calm and responsive under time pressure; able to manage competing priorities.
• Clear communicator who can translate GIS outputs into planning-relevant insights.
• Collaborative and proactive across governance, planning, design, and GIS teams.
• Discrete and professional when handling controlled project information.
• Working arrangement
• Full-time, on-site at client Site Offices in Riyadh for the initial 12 weeks.
• Standard working week aligned to project office expectations, with flexibility to meet governance deadlines and board cycles as required.
• Rewards & benefits
• Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This Includes

• Tax-free salary.
• Life insurance coverage.
• Medical insurance.
• Annual leave balance.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Annual flight contribution.
• Transportation & housing allowances.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.
• Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

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