Junior Geospatial Analyst

This role supports the creation, management, maintenance and use of geospatial data across Homes England. As a Junior Geospatial Analyst, you'll help keep our core datasets accurate, reliable and up to date, contributing towards the work of the Geospatial team and wider organisation.

You'll work with colleagues to respond to a variety of geospatial needs, helping ensure spatial information is accurate, accessible and well managed. You'll also play a big part in keeping our tools and workflows running smoothly, contributing to reliable and consistent geospatial operations.

This is a hands-on role, and a great chance to learn. You'll work alongside experienced geospatial experts, pick up good practice and help introduce new tools and approaches that move the organisation forward. It's a solid foundation for developing your skills while contributing to work that makes a real difference.

This role will involve:

• maintaining and improving core geospatial datasets to ensure they are accurate, consistent and ready for use.

• working towards responding to geospatial requests from colleagues, building on your existing skills to produce maps, data and other routine outputs with support from the team.

• contributing to good data management practices, including documentation, standards and version control.

• supporting the smooth running of geospatial tools and systems, including data loading, quality checks and user support.

• assisting with the introduction of new data, tools and ways of working that improve geospatial processes across the organisation.

• continuing developing your skills in GIS, scripting and data management to support ongoing service improvement.

You'll be at an early stage of your geospatial career, with some academic grounding and a genuine interest in how spatial data is used in real-world decision making. You don't need to know everything yet, what matters most is that you're curious, willing to learn and comfortable getting stuck into a range of tasks.

You'll have some experience using GIS (ideally ArcGIS), know your way around basic geospatial concepts and be keen to build up your technical expertise over time. You communicate clearly, can work with people from different teams, and are comfortable raising questions when needed

If you want a role where you can grow your skills, work with supportive colleagues and help strengthen how geospatial data is used across the organisation, this is a great place to start.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Degree level qualification (or equivalent experience) in Geography, GIS, Remote Sensing, Data Science, Environmental Science, or similar.

• the ability to create clear, accurate maps and visualisations.

• familiarity with ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online or other GIS platforms.

• an understanding of geospatial basics such coordinate systems, metadata, data quality, etc.

• an awareness of relational databases and querying (e.g., SQL), or willingness to learn.

• an interest in scripting for geospatial tasks (Python, Arcade, R) or a desire to pick it up.

• an awareness of data licensing, standards and good governance.

• good problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate issues clearly.

• strong people skills and the ability to build good working relationships.

• willingness to support day to day system and application administration.

It would also be good if you had:

• an awareness of enterprise geospatial setups such as ArcGIS Enterprise.

• academic or project based experience working with spatial datasets or data quality processes.

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We'll support you, wherever possible, so that you don't miss out on what matters to you.

Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.

Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, a wide range of healthcare plans, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.

If you are a member of a professional body, we'll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you'll be good to go.

Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people's lives. As the government's housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built. How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety. Together with our partners, we're accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come., Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way. We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme. We're a diverse team of more than 1,000 professionals spanning 17 professions, helping Homes England to be effective, efficient and deliver for communities.