Description
The opportunity
The candidate selected for this position will be part of the Resource Analysis Team, reporting to the Resource Analysis Team Manager. The Resource Analysis Team exists to analyze and prepare resource information as decision support for internal and external resource information consumers as it relates to the past or current state of the client’s asset. If customers require resource information, your team is responsible for obtaining it, preparing it, performing sufficient quality control to ensure the customers’ needs are satisfied, and delivering it. The primary areas of support provided by this team include: MIMTA’s appraisal/valuation program, property-level disposition transactions, stewardship, loan agreement compliance, harvest cutout analysis, client reporting, and ad-hoc analyses. You will work with other resource support teams to understand and inform customers about inventory and area variances that could affect downstream decisions.
To be successful, you will need to demonstrate good judgment assessing forest inventory data and understanding factors affecting inventory change through time. A team player with excellent analytical skills and an eagerness to learn and independent attitude are also key.
Position responsibilities:
- Participates with team members to provide value-added analysis and information for stewardship, operations, planning, investment analysis, client valuation, and disposition transactions.
- Services data needs of teams located across North America.
- Work in an enterprise GIS system using ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Apps and ArcGIS Pro.
- Provides quality assurance before outputs are delivered, documents workflows, and contributes to process improvements.
- Prepare and deliver accurate property management and decision support information including third party property appraisals, acquisitions, dispositions, ad-hoc requests, and other information on a timely basis.
- Prepares and delivers spatial and non-spatial analyses to meet SFI certification objectives and advance MIMTA’s stewardship commitment.
- Continuously improves business procedures and deliver training and support to ensure the effective deployment and use of resource information and business systems.
- Special projects as requested or needed.
Qualifications:
- A four-year degree in forestry, agriculture, geography or closely related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience in a similar position.
- Experience with GIS software packages like ESRI ArcGIS platform, SQL (structured query language) Server or other RDBMS; remote sensing and programming (e.g. python or R) experience is a plus.
- Strong GIS and analytical skills; capabilities in natural resource information / GIS management with a strong preference for forestry operations experience.
- Ability to manage projects and provide collaborative quality assurance to other team members’ work output.
- Ability to handle multiple, diverse support requests with professionalism and a solid customer support mentality.
- Teammate with excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to meet deadlines, and work collaboratively.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and strong verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge in multiple aspects of timber investment including appraisals, acquisitions, dispositions, and crop management operations is highly desirable.
