Principal Advisor - Geospatial Data Systems
Robert Walters
Date: 2 days ago
City: Wellington, Wellington
Contract type: Full time
This influential position is pivotal in shaping national standards, ensuring interoperability across platforms, and underpinning the digital transformation of environmental planning. The role offers you the chance to collaborate with key stakeholders including government agencies, local councils, and iwi, while playing a central part in developing frameworks that will have a lasting impact on how geospatial information supports decision-making nationwide.
What You'll Do
As Principal Advisor - Geospatial Data Systems, you will play a crucial role in shaping how geospatial information underpins New Zealand’s resource management reforms. Your day-to-day activities will involve working collaboratively with diverse groups—ranging from government agencies to iwi—to define standards that ensure seamless integration of spatial data across multiple domains. You will be instrumental in advising on cataloguing approaches, metadata structures, and interoperability mechanisms that enable efficient sharing and use of geospatial resources. By representing spatial interests during software certification processes, you will help guarantee that planning tools meet rigorous technical requirements while remaining accessible to end users. Your expertise will also be vital in developing practical guidance for councils as they transition to new systems, ensuring they are well-equipped to meet evolving expectations. Through active engagement in federated data design initiatives, you will champion the use of shared services that promote efficiency and collaboration at every level. Success in this role requires not only technical proficiency but also strong interpersonal skills to nurture relationships, facilitate knowledge exchange, and inspire confidence among stakeholders.
What You Bring
To excel as Principal Advisor Geospatial Data Systems, you will bring a wealth of experience navigating the complexities of large-scale geospatial integration projects within public sector or multi-stakeholder settings. Your background should include significant involvement in setting or influencing national standards related to spatial information management. You are adept at translating technical requirements into practical solutions that address real-world challenges faced by councils and other end users. Your interpersonal skills enable you to foster trust-based relationships with colleagues from varied backgrounds—including technical experts, policymakers, iwi representatives—and guide them towards shared objectives. You thrive when facilitating collaborative workshops or delivering training sessions designed to build capacity across organisations. Your commitment to staying abreast of technological advancements ensures your advice remains relevant as systems evolve. Above all, your approach is grounded in empathy, inclusivity, and a genuine desire to see others succeed through effective use of geospatial information.
What's Next
If you are ready to shape the future of geospatial data systems at a national level while enjoying flexible working arrangements within a supportive team environment, this is your moment to make an impact.
Apply today by clicking on the link below
Robert Walters endeavours to review all applications in a maximum of five working days. If you have not received correspondence in this timeframe please do not hesitate to contact Sean Caulfield on +64 4 471 9732.
What You'll Do
As Principal Advisor - Geospatial Data Systems, you will play a crucial role in shaping how geospatial information underpins New Zealand’s resource management reforms. Your day-to-day activities will involve working collaboratively with diverse groups—ranging from government agencies to iwi—to define standards that ensure seamless integration of spatial data across multiple domains. You will be instrumental in advising on cataloguing approaches, metadata structures, and interoperability mechanisms that enable efficient sharing and use of geospatial resources. By representing spatial interests during software certification processes, you will help guarantee that planning tools meet rigorous technical requirements while remaining accessible to end users. Your expertise will also be vital in developing practical guidance for councils as they transition to new systems, ensuring they are well-equipped to meet evolving expectations. Through active engagement in federated data design initiatives, you will champion the use of shared services that promote efficiency and collaboration at every level. Success in this role requires not only technical proficiency but also strong interpersonal skills to nurture relationships, facilitate knowledge exchange, and inspire confidence among stakeholders.
What You Bring
To excel as Principal Advisor Geospatial Data Systems, you will bring a wealth of experience navigating the complexities of large-scale geospatial integration projects within public sector or multi-stakeholder settings. Your background should include significant involvement in setting or influencing national standards related to spatial information management. You are adept at translating technical requirements into practical solutions that address real-world challenges faced by councils and other end users. Your interpersonal skills enable you to foster trust-based relationships with colleagues from varied backgrounds—including technical experts, policymakers, iwi representatives—and guide them towards shared objectives. You thrive when facilitating collaborative workshops or delivering training sessions designed to build capacity across organisations. Your commitment to staying abreast of technological advancements ensures your advice remains relevant as systems evolve. Above all, your approach is grounded in empathy, inclusivity, and a genuine desire to see others succeed through effective use of geospatial information.
What's Next
If you are ready to shape the future of geospatial data systems at a national level while enjoying flexible working arrangements within a supportive team environment, this is your moment to make an impact.
Apply today by clicking on the link below
Robert Walters endeavours to review all applications in a maximum of five working days. If you have not received correspondence in this timeframe please do not hesitate to contact Sean Caulfield on +64 4 471 9732.
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