Address
Form of work
SalaryTitle: GIS Graduate
Contract Type: 2.5-year fixed term contract. 35 hours per week
Location: Stratford, London E15
Persona: Agile (home and office hybrid working)
Salary: £29,000 per annum
Closing date for completed applications: Friday 21st June.
Interviews will be held on: Monday 1st July at West Ham Lane, Stratford.
Start Date: Late August/Early September 2024.
Role Profile GIS Graduate.docx
Early applications are encouraged as we reserve the right to close the advertisement and interview earlier than stated.
Why choose L&Q?
We offer a competitive annual salary and staff benefits package:
- Strong family-friendly policies
- Committed Learning & Development
- Annual leave starting from 28 days rising to 31 PLUS bank holidays
- Excellent Pension Scheme – double contribution up to 6%
- Generous non-contributory life assurance
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Great places to work certified 2023-2024
- Best Workplaces for Women – ranked 23 in the UK
Supporting our colleagues is really important to us at L&Q, which is why our Early Talent Programme has been designed to help you develop key skills, gain valuable experience, and achieve your career aspirations. This role provides the opportunity to start a career in GIS with a valued-led organisation, and the successful candidate will be supported to achieve a post graduate qualification in Geographic Data Science.
Do you have a passion for GIS and for using maps to deliver operational excellence?
We are looking for a GIS Graduate with excellent technical, analytical and communication skills that can deliver a high standard of customer service, and who would thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Upon joining L&Q’s GIS Team, you will have the opportunity to work alongside L&Q’s GIS Analyst and GIS Technician to make sure our suite of online and PDF maps is kept up to date and accurately reflects our stock portfolio. You’ll also work with our diverse, internal stakeholder group to ascertain requirements for new cartographic outputs, producing maps, and creating new spatial data sets, which support the delivery of an effective and efficient service to our residents.
You will be the first point of contact for colleagues responding effectively to queries, providing guidance, training, and GI subject matter expertise, complete regular updates of established web map layers, research, and source reputable datasets to develop new web map layers which enable spatial insight to support data-based decision-making across the organisation.
You will be joining the GIS Team at an exciting time; you will support the development of L&Q’s GI systems, improving, and maintaining GIS data quality, and implementing new GIS tools to ensure continuous improvement of GI processes.
Suitable candidates will hold a dynamic, solution focused approach and a ‘can do’ attitude.
Knowledge of SQL scripting, Power Bi or spatial database administration would be an advantage.
To be considered for this role candidates should be able to demonstrate:
- A GIS related degree; or equivalent qualification.
- Intermediate Excel skills, with the ability to manipulate, link and update complex data sets accurately.
- Ability to create new cartographic outputs and complete spatial analysis.
- Good organisation skills with the ability to prioritise own workload effectively.
- A commitment to delivering excellent customer service.
If you are interested in this role and have the experience required, then apply without delay!
We are a multi-site organisation, so some roles may require occasional travel between offices, but expenses will be covered.
At the foundation of everything that we do are our corporate values and associated behaviours. Our organisational behavioural framework outlines the core expectations of all employees, which should be demonstrated at all times when representing L&Q.
More information about L&Q’s values can be found on our website and a copy of our behavioural framework can be provided on request.
Our commitments:
At L&Q, people are at the heart of our business and our success depends on employing the best people and getting the best from them. This is why we are committed to developing our people. It's only by investing in a well-trained and motivated workforce that we can continue to prosper and sustain business success.
In addition to our support and training, the successful candidate will have access to our full suite of benefits including 28 days holiday rising to 31 days with length of service, excellent Pension scheme, an employee assistance programme and non-contributory life assurance.
We are committed to supporting your work-life balance and recognise the changing demands and circumstances in life. Please let us know during the recruitment process if you’re interested in part time working or job sharing. In addition, should your circumstances change once you have joined L&Q, you can also request flexible working arrangements, e.g. a change to working hours - if it’s feasible then we’ll make it happen.
We are recognised externally for our commitment to inclusion. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident (Committed) employer and have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge to demonstrate our commitment to end mental health discrimination in the workplace.
We expect all of our employees to support our environmental policy and social responsibility work. We are an employer committed to environmental and social responsibility.
L&Q is a regulated charitable housing association and one of the UK’s most successful independent social businesses. The L&Q Group houses around 250,000 people in more than 110,000 homes, primarily across London the South East and the North West of England.
As a charitable organisation, our role goes beyond providing homes and housing services. We are a long-term partner in the neighbourhoods where we work. We hope to build aspiration, opportunity and confidence in our communities through our £250 million L&Q Foundation and our skills academy.
Our vision is that everyone has a quality home they can afford, and we combine our social purpose with commercial drive to create homes and neighbourhoods everyone can be proud of.
