The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) invests in a network of community-based organizations and programs to alleviate the effects of poverty and to provide opportunities for New Yorkers and communities to flourish. The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion unit conducts population and programmatic research and analysis, and develops tools to support agency operations. This includes the development of the Language Dashboard and the Public Engagement Tracker. Under the supervision of the Sr. GIS Analyst & Program Manager, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) College Aide will conduct spatial analysis and develop visualizations. They will support the team with writing scripts (ex. using Python or Arcade) to automatically generate, update, and publish map products. The College Aide will:
- Locate, process, and acquire demographic, census, or other open-source data sets.
- Format data received from internal and external sources to make them usable in analytic software;
- Prepare maps, and displays using ESRI ArcGIS Pro & AGOL and/or related software and extensions;
- Work with census data, agency program data, and other sources to do spatial analysis;
- Clean, analyze and interpret complex social, economic, and population data, trends and provide
recommendations;
- Prepare charts and graphs, write reports, and present results; - Complete other special projects as
requested.
COLLEGE AIDE - ASSIGNMENT LEVE - 1020B