King County's Office of Emergency Management is looking for a GIS Specialist to join our team.  Position is responsible for working on Geographic Information Systems data supporting Emergency Management planning and operations efforts in King County. The GIS Specialist will support analyzing, acquiring, creating and maintaining spatial and tabular Geographic Information Systems data and appropriate metadata. This classification performs moderately complex GIS systems and customer business analysis, GIS programming includes writing and maintaining complex routines that interact with other applications, and provides GIS training to departmental end users.

This person will be a key player in the planning and development for present and future services. Roles involve daily interaction with senior-level management, elected officials, and multiple intergovernmental partners. Requires a self-starter who is interpersonally and politically savvy, can work on multiple projects, and is a great problem solver.