Deadline Date: Monday 24 August 2026
Requirement: Geospatial Data Manager
Location: The Hague, NL
Full Time On-Site: Yes
Time On-Site: 100%
Total Scope of the request (hours): 494
Required Start Date: 28 September 2026
End Contract Date: 31 December 2026
Required Security Clearance: NATO SECRET
Duties & Role:
Geospatial Data Management
- Maintain, organize, and manage geospatial datasets and metadata.
- Support data ingestion, transformation, validation, and quality assurance processes.
- Develop and maintain geodatabases and spatial data repositories.
- Monitor and maintain spatial data integrity, consistency, and version control.
- Coordinate data backups and archival procedures.
- Maintain documentation for geospatial datasets, workflows, and system configurations.
- Support data governance and compliance with organizational GIS standards.
Cloud and On-Premises GIS Administration Support
- Support geospatial environments hosted in cloud platforms and on-premises servers. (Regular backups, up to date documentation, system improvement, obsolescence management, etc.)
- Coordinate with Geospatial IT personnel to maintain secure GIS operations.
- Assist with deployment, maintenance, and troubleshooting of GIS services and applications.
Spatial Analysis Support
- Perform basic spatial analysis using GIS software and scripting tools.
- Create maps and visualizations to support operational and business needs.
- Conduct spatial queries, overlays, buffering, proximity analysis, and data summarization.
- Support data preparation for modelling, reporting, and decision-making activities.
- Assist in generating standard GIS products and analytical outputs.
Collaboration and Support
- Participate in project meetings and provide status updates.
- Support documentation on all levels.
- Collaborate with analysts, developers and engineers.
- Recommend improvements to geospatial workflows, data management practices, and system efficiency.
- Integrate into an international team of geospatial experts.
Specific Working Conditions: All documentation provided under this statement of work will be based on NCI Agency templates and/or agreed with the NCI Agency project manager.
All developed solutions, tools and code under this project will be the property of the NCI Agency.
Requirements
Skills, Knowledge & Experience:
- The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
- A minimum requirement of a Bachelor's degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in the area of Geospatial Sciences or related field and 2 years post-related experience. Alternatively, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate's particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency, that is, at least 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the post.
- At least 3 years professional experience in the area of geospatial data management
- Minimum 3-year experience on the ESRI Enterprise SW Suite including desktop and server components used for geospatial data production and maintenance
- Solid understanding of geographic matters: data types, coordinate systems, projections, metadata
- Solid experience with different GI data formats for vector and raster
- Expert level experience in GIS database management
- Solid experience in quality assurance and quality control in Geospatial data
- Expert level understanding of assessing accuracy of High-Resolution geospatial products
- Expert level understanding of vector data manipulation
- Expert level understanding of raster data manipulation
- Expert level understanding of common raster formats and their pro's and con's
- Minimum 5 years' experience using ArcGIS Desktop Software (ArcGIS Pro), including data editing, data management and advanced functionalities of mosaic datasets
- Understanding of geospatial analysis
- Familiarity with backup strategies
- Familiarity with data transfer protocols and tools
- Expert Knowledge in Microsoft Excel
- General Office software familiarity
- Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills
- Proven ability to integrate and work in a multinational team
- Fluent business English Professional
Education, Experience and Training (Desirable):
- Knowledge and experience working against NATO standards
- Experience preparing geospatial data for NATO systems
- Proven experience in development of tools using ArcGIS Toolbox and ArcPy
- Experience using ArcGIS Server/ArcGIS Image Server for data optimisation, publishing and caching of OGC web services such as WMS and WMTS
- Expert level understanding of raster tile creation based on tiling schemas including the ArcGIS/Google/Bing tiling schema
- Experience in designing and configuring an enterprise geodatabase as well as managing data within a geodatabase or a database
- Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements
