Do you want a change in lifestyle?

If so, here's your opportunity!

About our District - Our mission is to make our communities better and this role will play a key part in achieving this. We are located in a tranquil area of New Zealand offering some of the best access to the great outdoors. We also boast attractive housing prices for your town, village or rural lifestyle and we are within commuting distance to larger centres.

About our Organisation - We are an energetic and progressive, values-based organisation, which is dedicated to providing quality services and facilities for our communities. We place strong emphasis on our organisational culture, which in turn creates strong engagement across our team. We employ people with a 'Can Do' attitude who want to work for a united organisation with a strong sense of family that is proud to serve its communities.

At STDC, we offer a proven "best place to work" environment, access to a sick leave bank, flexible working opportunities and retention incentive benefit upon five years of employment. Our team culture encourages innovation, we care about your professional development, and you will be working with an elite and motivated team of professionals.

About the Role - The purpose of the position is to manage and maintain the organisation's corporate GIS service and associated processes, systems, and spatial data, ensuring information is accurate, reliable, and fit for organisational use. The role applies GIS tools and spatial analysis to support operational delivery, planning, and decision‑making, supports the integration of GIS with enterprise systems, and works with internal teams and external partners to meet spatial information requirements.

The position also supports the development and effective use of spatial data and services across the organisation, designs and delivers GIS solutions using hands‑on spatial programming capability and provides specialist GIS support for Civil Defence activities as required.

Do you have what it takes? - This is a busy role and if you want plenty of variety, this role has it from performing GIS data collection, maintenance, and undertaking reviews as per spatial data governance procedures, providing user training for GIS applications and working with knowledge experts to recognise and build spatial data awareness. It will also provide the first level information requests, reporting requests and data enquiries, will undertake ETL processing and support the Information Services and business teams to ensure the proposed approach aligns with the Digital Transformation Strategy (DTS) and therefore with the organisation's GIS, data and application objectives and aspirations.

About You - You are an energetic, passionate, and self-driven GIS professional with a strong can-do attitude who thrives in a collaborative team environment. You learn quickly, adapt well to new challenges, and consistently apply your technical expertise to deliver high quality spatial solutions. You bring at least two years of experience in cartographic mapping, spatial and visual data analysis, and web GIS delivery, supported by a degree in GIS, Geography, Computer Science or related field. You also possess excellent communication skills, enabling you to translate spatial data and clearly convey technical information to diverse audiences.

You have hands-on knowledge of the ArcGIS platform, including ArcGIS Enterprise, web and local maps, online solutions, along with experience using FME technology and APIs. You are confident in configuring and optimising GIS platforms, including system upgrades, SQL, ETL processes, and data pipelines, with an appreciation for cloud environments. You are highly capable of curating, editing, and wrangling data from a wide range of structured and unstructured sources. Local government and public sector knowledge are paramount as is knowledge of and demonstrated experience in managing and delivering projects.

Applicants for this position must be legally entitled to work in New Zealand, therefore must have NZ residency or hold a valid NZ work visa. In terms of residence class visa applications, priority will be given where the applicant is in New Zealand.

South Taranaki District Council is an Accredited Employer so if you're moving to the region, we can offer practical support and some financial assistance. This includes employer sponsorship for your visa application.

The salary range for this position is between $83,430pa and $92,700pa and the appointed starting level will be dependent on skills and experience and will be discussed during interviews with shortlisted candidates. This is a full time, 40 hour per week role.

If this role appeals to you, head over to our website https://southtaranaki.recruitmenthub.co.nz/Vacancies & enter ref code: 6891560 where you can access the background information and job description for the role.

If submitting an application, please ensure you provide a covering letter outlining your skills and experience for the role along with your most current CV.

Applications close at 4pm on 7^th June 2026 or when a suitable candidate has been appointed to the role.