Geospatial Data Coordinator

The Office of Campus Planning, a part of University Facilities, seeks a dedicated geographic and architectural minded professional to maintain the constantly evolving spatial information required to meet the university’s needs. The university maintains a large inventory of architectural floor plans which directly support UB’s physical space inventory, architectural design efforts, and various planning processes. This position will ensure the University maintains this critical set of information used for planning and reporting across all levels of the institution. In addition, this position will oversee the maintenance of campus-wide datasets including the official campus basemap, and various other datasets native to GIS. Accurate data is key for the University’s overall mission as a flagship SUNY research institution.

• Work with Campus Planning staff and perform construction field audits to continually improve the accuracy of the University’s spatial information.
• Maintain architectural drawings of all university facilities in AutoCAD and assure they are compliant with our space inventory, and geographic information systems.
• Coordinate with internal and external entities on renovations, capital construction, departmental updates, or operational work orders to get the information required to update UB’s spatial data systems.
• Review all construction projects to extract data needed to update various information systems such as room numbers and geometry, greenspace, sidewalks, accessible routes, door locations, tree inventory. etc.
• Develop and implement the transition of the University’s architectural drawing inventory from 2D AutoCAD to Revit.
• Implement ArcGIS Indoors across the campus
• Enhance and foster a culture of collaboration within Campus Planning, University Facilities and the university community to promote data quality as a fundamental aspect for good decision making.
• Develop strategies, to support UB’s Top 25 goal through operational excellence, delivery of cutting-edge facilities, services and spaces that support the ongoing work of the university, attract world-class faculty & staff, and increase student retention.

• Bachelor’s degree in Geography, Geographic Information Systems, Urban Planning, or Architecture with 2 years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting within ESRI ArcGIS Pro software and ArcGIS Indoors datasets.
• Demonstrated experience using Autodesk AutoCAD.
• Demonstrated experience managing large datasets while assuring consistency and accuracy.
• Excellent organizational, and interpersonal skills are required., * Master’s degree in Geography, Geographic Information Systems, Urban Planning, or Architecture with 3 years of experience in higher education or institutional campus planning
• Experience with GIS programming, geodatabase design, ArcGIS Enterprise deployment, and data management on AGOL.
• Demonstrate ability to work across a large and complex organization.

Physical Demands

• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about to complete field and construction site visits.

Outstanding Benefits Package Working at UB comes with benefits that exceed salary alone. There are personal rewards including comprehensive health and retirement plan options. We also focus on creating and sustaining a healthy mix of work, personal and academic pursuit - all in an effort to support your work-life effectiveness. We support your growth and development through our career coaching and training department and we qualify as a public service loan forgiveness organization. Learn more about our benefit packages.

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