Senior Analyst for Center for Geospatial Solutions

Our Mission

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy seeks to improve quality of life through the effective use, taxation, and stewardship of land. A nonprofit private operating foundation whose origins date to 1946, the Lincoln Institute researches and recommends creative approaches to land as a solution to economic, social, and environmental challenges. Through education, training, publications, and events, we integrate theory and practice to inform public policy decisions worldwide. With locations in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Washington, DC; Phoenix; and Beijing, we organize our work around six goals: low-carbon, climate-resilient communities and regions; efficient and equitable tax systems; reduced poverty and spatial inequality; fiscally healthy communities and regions; sustainably managed land and water resources; and functional land markets and reduced informality.

Position Overview

The Institute’s Center for Geospatial Solutions (CGS) generates data insights that help partners to design and implement equitable land, water, and climate solutions.

In support of CGS’s contracts and projects, the Senior Analyst will curate, aggregate, standardize, analyze, and visualize data from a variety of sources. This role will work directly with CGS’s Director of Geospatial Technology and Associate Directors to prioritize pressing needs and execute tasks related to CGS’s projects.

This is a full-time position in the Washington D.C. area, Cambridge, MA, Phoenix, AZ, or remotely at 37.5 hours/week reporting to the Director of Geospatial Technology.

What You’ll Do – Managing execution of project deliverables

• Engaging with partners to deliver solutions. With support from supervisory staff, the senior analyst will interact with clients to understand issues, customize solutions, and provide deliverables in a timely manner.
• Obtaining, organizing, and processing component datasets. The analyst will be working with a variety of spatial data, including satellite and aerial imagery; LiDAR; and national, state, and local vector data and transforming it to a more usable format.
• A strong understanding of geospatial process automation using Python, ArcPy, and other associated packages.
• Create, quality check, coordinate and update Center’s geospatial information.
• Independently execute assigned tasks, such as geospatial analysis workflow, data aggregation and standardization, and web application configuration to completion ensuring that all activities are coordinated and completed on time with internal and external partners.

What You’ll Do – Building the capacity and capabilities of CGS

• Initiative to independently learn new skills and solve problems and errors.
• Organization and attention to detail are crucial to success in working with high volumes of data across projects.
• Self-motivated and goal-oriented with the ability to take an innovative, strategic, and analytical approach to research and collaboration.
• Building relationships with allied organizations to support ongoing collaboration and data-sharing.
• Working successfully in interdisciplinary teams with colleagues from various topical backgrounds.
• Providing training and technical assistance to other staff. The senior analyst will be expected to maintain flexibility for addressing urgent, unplanned needs and an openness to teaching others.
• Identify opportunities for future GIS applications and service deliverables.

What You’ll Do – Effectively communicate information to partners

• Clean writing and thoughtful communication. Summarizing and communicating research results in narrative, visual, and digital formats for use in reports, policy briefs, public presentations, and other Lincoln communications.
• Present findings to team members, stakeholders, and other audiences, as needed, in a variety of settings.
• Develop creative options to layout and present information in an effective manner using GIS tools and other graphic design and publishing software.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Management, Natural Resource Management, Geography, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• A minimum of 5 years of progressive experience in collecting, aggregating, managing, analyzing, and visualizing geospatial data. A Masters Degree or significant technical expertise may substitute for two years of experience.
• Management, organizational and interpersonal skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to translate data held in legacy formats like Microsoft Excel and Access into open and usable resources on the web
• Experience in automating data cleaning, ETL processes, and analysis workflows for social and geospatial data using Python or R
• Experience with programmatic interaction with ESRI ArcGIS Pro and Online tools using Python or R
• Experience with ArcGIS Online user-facing web application tools
• Experience with, or willingness to learn continuous integration and development tools and development environment tools including Docker and GitHub Actions in concert with cloud infrastructure including Azure, AWS, and GCP.
• Exceptional critical thinking skills with the ability to decompose complex problems, prioritize issues, and implement sensible solutions
• Willingness and ability to engage with partner organizations
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 5%

Compensation Overview

The salary market range for this role is $85K - $90K depending on level of education and years of experience.

Our Benefits

Benefits highlights include but are not limited to (a) 3x employer contribution towards retirement matching your employee contribution up to 15%, (b) health insurance, (c) dental insurance, (d) vision insurance, (e) 100% reimbursement of the health care deductible through a health reimbursement account, (f) short-term disability coverage, (g) long term disability coverage, (h) paid parental leave, (i) voluntary insurances such as accident insurance, (j) health care flexible spending, (k) dependent care flexible spending, (l) paid time off for holidays, vacation, personal, sick, bereavement, and jury duty, (m) office closure between December 24 – Jan 1 each calendar year, (n) flexible schedule and option for a compressed 4 day workweek, (o) tuition and staff development reimbursement, (p) pet insurance, and (q) Employee Assistance Program.

Our Values

We support a culture of forthright feedback, initiative, cooperation and teamwork, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and accepting responsibility.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is dedicated to creating an inclusive work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Individuals seeking employment at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), ancestry, citizenship status, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.