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ROI is looking for a highly motivated, capable person to join our team as a Rural GIS Technician. This is a 35 hrs/wk summer employment position from May 20, 2024 to July 12, 2024.

To address a housing shortfall in rural Ontario, the Rural Ontario Institute (ROI) worked with founding members, the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus (EOWC) to create a digital tool to provide local, reliable, salient, and current rural data to assist proponents & municipalities in the planning and construction of new, affordable housing.   The Rural Housing Information System now features rural eastern and western municipalities data and is expanding to Northern Ontario municipalities.

We are working to scale the system while maintaining and reviewing all the municipal data geospatial information and related zoning, servicing, assets, etc.  We will be working with our Municipal GIS Department Map Files to upload them to our ArcGIS account to be featured on the RHIS and/or consuming them.  And in other instances seeking other geospatial data sources where municipal GIS capacity is limited.

To read the full job description click HERE

Please apply in confidence by e-mail no later than May 10th, 2024, with a résumé and cover letter in one PDF document, highlighting relevant personal experience, accomplishments, and/or motivations that reflect your potential success in the position.  

Applications should be emailed to:

Ellen Sinclair, Executive Director, Rural Ontario Institute esinclair@ruralontarioinstitute.ca 

 We thank all those who apply. Only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.