Junior Geospatial Analyst
Job summary
This role supports the creation, management, maintenance and use of geospatial data across Homes England. As a Junior Geospatial Analyst, you’ll help keep our core datasets accurate, reliable and up to date, contributing towards the work of the Geospatial team and wider organisation.
Job description
You’ll work with colleagues to respond to a variety of geospatial needs, helping ensure spatial information is accurate, accessible and well managed. You’ll also play a big part in keeping our tools and workflows running smoothly, contributing to reliable and consistent geospatial operations.
This is a hands‑on role, and a great chance to learn. You’ll work alongside experienced geospatial experts, pick up good practice and help introduce new tools and approaches that move the organisation forward. It’s a solid foundation for developing your skills while contributing to work that makes a real difference.
This role will involve:
- maintaining and improving core geospatial datasets to ensure they are accurate, consistent and ready for use.
- working towards responding to geospatial requests from colleagues, building on your existing skills to produce maps, data and other routine outputs with support from the team.
- contributing to good data management practices, including documentation, standards and version control.
- supporting the smooth running of geospatial tools and systems, including data loading, quality checks and user support.
- assisting with the introduction of new data, tools and ways of working that improve geospatial processes across the organisation.
- continuing developing your skills in GIS, scripting and data management to support ongoing service improvement.
Person specification
You’ll be at an early stage of your geospatial career, with some academic grounding and a genuine interest in how spatial data is used in real‑world decision making. You don’t need to know everything yet, what matters most is that you’re curious, willing to learn and comfortable getting stuck into a range of tasks.
You’ll have some experience using GIS (ideally ArcGIS), know your way around basic geospatial concepts and be keen to build up your technical expertise over time. You communicate clearly, can work with people from different teams, and are comfortable raising questions when needed
If you want a role where you can grow your skills, work with supportive colleagues and help strengthen how geospatial data is used across the organisation, this is a great place to start.
We are looking for someone who has:
- Degree level qualification (or equivalent experience) in Geography, GIS, Remote Sensing, Data Science, Environmental Science, or similar.
- the ability to create clear, accurate maps and visualisations.
- familiarity with ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online or other GIS platforms.
- an understanding of geospatial basics such coordinate systems, metadata, data quality, etc.
- an awareness of relational databases and querying (e.g., SQL), or willingness to learn.
- an interest in scripting for geospatial tasks (Python, Arcade, R) or a desire to pick it up.
- an awareness of data licensing, standards and good governance.
- good problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate issues clearly.
- strong people skills and the ability to build good working relationships.
- willingness to support day to day system and application administration.
It would also be good if you had:
- an awareness of enterprise geospatial setups such as ArcGIS Enterprise.
- academic or project based experience working with spatial datasets or data quality processes.
Benefits
Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:
Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.
Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.
Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.
Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.
Things you need to know
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How to apply?
To apply please follow the links to our careers page.
Security
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
Selection process details
For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.
Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.
Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.
Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter
Nationality requirements
Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.
Working for the Civil Service
Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Further information
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).Apply and further information
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Recruitment team
- Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk
Recruitment team
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