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Duration : 12+ Months Contract

Candidate MUST be a SC resident. Open to candidates from NC, GA, or FL who are willing to relocate to SC prior to starting the role at their own expense.

Job Summary:

SCOPE OF THE PROJECT

Due to the volume of GIS activities being performed to support the agency, additional staff is needed to assist current staff with backend support of the agency GIS environment and support scripts and GIS REST services. The team will ensure systems are following industry best practices to ensure strategic initiatives and compliance with federal and state regulatory laws and ensure business continuity. This position will support Public Health initiatives.

This position will be a part of the team responsible for maintaining critical agency functions including health facility adequacy analysis and geographic information services during emergency response operations as well as utilizing GIS solutions and day-to-day operations.

Candidates should be self-motivated, team-oriented, work under limited supervision, and respond to priority tasks as needed.

DAILY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES

This position will focus on Public Health initiatives including (but not limited to), Cancer Registry, immunizations, maintaining enterprise architecture, geospatial analysis, infectious disease surveillance and application development. This will include providing support, analysis, testing, problem resolution, reporting, and monitoring of GIS environment and services associated with sensitive data that are restricted and confidential. The candidate will work in a team environment with other GIS and Information Technology staff and Program Area to provide support of GIS solutions and users.

The GIS candidate will work in the ESRI software platform and other tools to support agency GIS backend interoperability, REST services, Web API service, python scripts, and online web mapping solutions.

Specific duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:

+ When modeling restricted and confidential health data sets ensure deidentification principles are applied when performing analysis along with following security policies and procedures.

+ Performs complex analysis, design, testing, documentation, and implementation of GIS applications and upgrades.

+ Develop and maintain Python scripts supporting GIS interoperability capabilities.

+ Ability to manipulate spatial data, and other common GIS formats.

+ Develop and maintain spatial queries.

+ Assist with supporting public health and related spatial data layers.

+ Perform spatial analysis utilizing Spatial Analyst, Insights, Network, and Business Analyst to meet Public Health requests.

+ Create complex cartographic products.

+ Develop and maintain GIS REST services for Public Health data.

+ Support applications in ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Portal.

+ Work with Information Technology staff to learn system technical functionality and IT Security Standards and practices.

+ Provide system user support with a focus on public health requests.

+ Assist staff in resolving system-related problems.

+ Assist with system user account permissions and security.

+ Create and maintain supporting system and training documentation.

+ Coordinate and assist with system testing and production validation.

The position will be utilized for 40 hours per week for the duration of this project. The selected candidate should be able to work flexible hours where it may be necessary for work to be completed outside traditional business hours. Schedules amongst the team can be coordinated to ensure coverage of operational hours of Monday – Sunday, 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM.

The candidate will work with the Assigned Section Manager to identify, prioritize, and schedule workload and implementation to IT standards and procedures. The candidate will work with customers and subject matter experts for the system design and testing.

This will also include compliance to DPH security policy/procedures as well as integrating systems when possible to streamline staff workflows, user security, and data correction.

MODULE SUPPORT OF THE PROJECT

+ DPH will require that selected personnel sign the DPH confidentiality agreement and/or Business Associate (BA) agreement if applicable. All web services must be secure.

+ DPH will not accept any offers including an “up-lift” charge. The rate paid per consultant must not exceed the maximum rate established for this position described in the State contract terms.

+ Contractors must be online and available during each week throughout the term of the contract.

+ Follow agency IT Standards, policies, and procedures to include documentation.

+ All source code (compiled and uncompiled) will become the sole property of the South Carolina Department of Public Health. Any source code, data, product, or functionality resulting from this SOW or previously owned/developed by DPH will remain the sole property of DPH and is not to be incorporated into the core product of any vendor's application. Any modifications and interfaces developed under said contract will not be used by the contractor for any independent project of the contractor or published or publicized by the contractor without written permission of DPH.

+ DPH has the final say on all programming choices.

DPH SUPPORT

DPH will provide:

+ All required information including formulas, data, and mechanisms to check output.

+ Staff to assist with any application or data questions.

+ Microsoft Teams license.

+ GoToMyPC license.

+ Workstation and required software. Candidate must have own PC or laptop to connect to agency device via GTMPC.

REQUIRED SKILLS (RANKED IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE)

+ 3-5 years experienced Data Analyst with extensive experience performing public health data modeling, data mapping, data cleansing.

+ 3-5 years experience with ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online.

+ Web services (REST, SOAP).

+ 3-5 years GIS Infrastructure Administration and Monitoring.

+ SQL Server.

+ GIS mapping.

+ Solid background in data integration, staging, quality and distribution.

+ Knowledge of Information Technology Field, best practices, organization, and operations.

PREFERRED SKILLS (RANKED IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE)

+ Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills.

+ Experience using and administering Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS).

+ ArcGIS Notebooks.

+ Ticketing system.

+ Experience with industry standard information security practices.

+ Experience with security and data classification related to CDC, HIPAA, and PHI/PII data.

REQUIRED EDUCATION

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field of work or equivalent work experience.

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