Position: GIS Manager
Location: Charlottesville, VA (2 days may be remote, 3 days in office)
Start Date: December 2025
Compensation: $90,000 – $93,000 plus benefits
About: Founded in 2006, the national, nonprofit Green Infrastructure Center Inc. is a leading designer of landscape conservation modeling and planning strategies for healthy landscapes that are green, clean, and accessible. GIC’s staff of 23 people includes natural resource managers, foresters, biologists, planners, landscape architects, and GIS analysts.
Green Infrastructure includes intact forests, urban tree canopy, wetlands, springs, parks and rivers and agricultural soils that provide clean water, air quality, wildlife habitat, recreation, and food. The GIC’s mission is to help communities realize that nature is also “green infrastructure” to address climate change, urban heat islands, improved public health, and increased social and economic equity. GIC’s clients include federal, regional, state, and local government agencies, land trusts, and conservation groups. GIC is dedicated to growing the practice of green infrastructure planning and shares knowledge through workshops, courses, webinars, and publications.
Position Summary: This position is an exceptional opportunity for a GIS manager with an advanced skillset and people management skills to manage a team and take them to the next level in skill development. It entails a high amount of direct experience with all aspects of geospatial analysis around Green Infrastructure and the benefits it provides. GIC’s methods and tools are rapidly evolving, and this role will involve documenting that development while collaborating with a team to evolve efficient, repeatable, and scalable processes that serve a broad client base.
The GIS Manager will supervise the 4-person GIS team, working on land cover mapping and conservation modeling. Technical qualifications include proficiency in the ArcGIS Pro Model Builder, python scripting, advanced spatial analysis, ArcGIS Online administration, and experience constructing advanced queries, documenting methodology, and performing QA/QC on data products. They will also be required to develop models, based on GIC’s existing and forthcoming conservation planning tools, to predict high-value conservation and restoration opportunities, assess climate resiliency, and support future forecasting.