at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job Opening Id: 50478
Department: MED-Buehler Center - BCHPE
Salary/Grade: EXS/6
Job Summary:
The Geospatial Specialist/Cartography assumes responsibilities encompassing the design, implementation, and support of geospatial initiatives. Leveraging an advanced proficiency in geospatial skills, methods, and analysis, the specialist supports and collaborates with faculty, and staff researchers. This role plays play a crucial role in analyzing and visualizing spatial patterns of disease transmission, identifying hot spots, and providing insights to support public health interventions. You will utilize your knowledge of geographic information systems (GIS), statistical analysis, and epidemiological methods to create informative maps and spatial analyses that contribute to the understanding and management of infectious diseases, chronic conditions, and other health-related issues.
Demonstrating expertise in both proprietary and open-source applications, databases, and infrastructure, including cloud-based systems, the position contributes to the seamless execution of projects. Set overall objectives in consultation with project deadlines. Review work for fulfillment of objectives and overall compliance with policy and procedures. Demonstrate autonomy in completing the majority of activities.
Please note: Work in an open office area with three other staff members and several student assistants.
Specific Responsibilities:
Geospatial Analysis Support
- Consults with users to define detailed requirements, analyze research needs, consider current and future research implications, and translates these into action able geospatial research projects. These research projects have technical requirements, necessitate the validation of solutions, and the Northwestern research enterprise.
- Serves as subject matter expert in regard to content, processes, and procedures
- associated with complex technical and functional geospatial system.
- Be responsible for collecting and cleaning data to create maps or tabular data that will enable research teams to perform both exploratory and confirmatory data analysis on qualitative data sets.
- Provides direct researcher assistance with geospatial modeling, analysis and map making. Identifying and assisting with the use of software including but not limited to, ArcGIS ArcPro, ArcGIS Online, and QGIS. They work c
