GIS College Aide

Job Description

The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) invests in a network of community-based organizations and programs to alleviate the effects of poverty and to provide opportunities for New Yorkers and communities to flourish. The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion unit conducts population and programmatic research and analysis, and develops tools to support agency operations. This includes the development of the Language Dashboard and the Public Engagement Tracker. Under the supervision of the Sr. GIS Analyst & Program Manager, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) College Aide will conduct spatial analysis and develop visualizations. They will support the team with writing scripts (ex. using Python or Arcade) to automatically generate, update, and publish map products. The College Aide will:

- Locate, process, and acquire demographic, census, or other open-source data sets.

- Format data received from internal and extern...