GIS Support Officer
| Posting date: | 02 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £32,089 to £32,724 per year |
| Additional salary information: | pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 September 2025 |
| Location: | BS16 1EJ |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 425454/1 |
Summary
The GIS Team work with most areas of the business to support and develop spatial data management systems and applications to achieve the organisations objectives.
This position is a key customer facing role in the GIS team. It is a job share and limited to 3 days per week for the duration of the current post holders maternity leave.
It primarily covers customer support but also communications, development, data and user management.
Please see the job description below for more information and details about what we need from you.
Where you’ll work…
This role can be based at Forestry England's National Office Office in Bristol, from any Forestry England office subject to local agreement, a blended approach or working from home. Please be aware that this role can only be worked in GB and not overseas.
We have an IT user community of around 1800 people who are geographically spread and delivering a broad range of business functions covering forestry management, timber harvesting, recreation and events management, and management of visitor centres. Excellent IT is essential to help meet our corporate targets and to develop our future.
•support, oversee and deliver technical support of GIS to Forestry England users
•support the delivery of the GIS Team objectives and provide support for users
•assist in data model development, mobile application development, management and analysis in support
of Forest Districts, Head Office and other specialist functions in England
•be conduit for information from and to system owners, service desk and users
And any other task reasonably requested by your line manager.
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