Job Description

GIS Officer
Basildon Borough Council
Temporary, Full Time
40.00 per hour (umbrella)
Location: Basildon
Closing Date: 18th August 2025
Essex County Council (ECC) are delighted to be supporting Basildon Borough Council (BBC) to recruit a GIS Officer on an initial 6-month temporary basis. Please note that this post will be based in the office 3 days per week and can also be considered on a part time basis of 3-4 days per week.
Why Basildon?
The borough of Basildon is alive with opportunity and has the ingredients to be one of the most successful and desirable places in the Southeast. As the largest economy in the Thames Estuary outside London, we are incredibly proud of what we have achieved but we are never complacent. We are driving inclusive, sustainable growth to provide opportunity and prosperity for local people and businesses, access to quality homes, vibrant town centres and an enhanced local environment.
The role
As a GIS Officer you will provide a geospatial service to achieve the objectives and priorities laid out in our Corporate Plan and the GIS / Data Strategy.
You will undertake a wide range of spatial data capture tasks to ensure our record of GIS data is accurate and up to date. You will also assist with data management tasks, making sure that the data you capture is available to staff and external stakeholders via the applications we develop and support.
You will also lead the development and integration of geospatial systems and capacity in the Council, paving the way for a permanent Geospatial team at the centre of an efficient and skilled wider team of GIS-users.
Main responsibilities

• Shape and influence the Council to become more data driven using technology and geographical systems
• Analyse and collect geographical data. Manage and present geographical data in a range of formats
• Challenge the way geographical data is used within the Council and design new ways of publishing and sharing this data across the organisation and externally
• Spatially analyse and interpret data to provide intelligence for a variety of users
• Deliver presentations and develop show and tell content for showcases
• Respond to enquiries, schedule meetings, run reports and ensure tasks within the project are completed
• With your ESRI / ArcGIS Pro/ QGIS experience, you will develop our Enterprise/AGOL environment

• You will grow our open data portal new datasets. Liaising with Ordnance Survey as necessary to automate data extraction and publication

• You will aid in the scheduled upgrade of our IDOX Uniform Mapping system to a web-based system, which will allow us to integrate it with our ESRI enterprise portal content.
• Building SQL scripts to extract data from different database technologies (Oracle, MSSQL) and build PowerBI / ArcGIS operations dashboards

Key skills and experience required:
Excellent GIS skills and knowledge
A strong understanding of the concepts behind data management in a local, regional and national environment
Understanding of Information technology and how it integrates with geo-spatial data
Experience of GIS and data can integrate with various IT and Digital systems
Working under own initiative, task management and working under pressure
Communicating and presenting work to a wide range of audiences
What you should do next
If you are interested in finding out more about this role, we would love to hear from you. Please apply via the Working for Essex website.
If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please mail