GIS and Data Manager, C&M Unit

Transportation Planning and Management (TPM) is responsible for the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people and goods on the City's streets, supporting the larger goals of economic and social vitality for people living, working, and doing business in New York City. The Division’s responsibilities include planning, street design, curb management, technical analysis, signs, transit development, freight mobility and markings, and ensuring the safety of motor vehicle occupants, pedestrians, and cyclists.
The Office of Livable Streets (OLS) is tasked with prioritizing strategic planning, community engagement, research, policy, design, implementation, and long-term management. Their goal is to create streets that are livable, supporting safety, accessibility, inclusion, resiliency, active modes, community cohesion, and economic vitality citywide. Additionally, they aim to enhance New York City's pedestrian, bicycle, and micromobility networks, providing comfortable, connected, green, and reliable transportation options across the five boroughs. They place special emphasis on Priority Investment Areas, mode shift, and reimagining streets. The office also develops innovative new programs, design typologies, project delivery, and analysis tools to meet the demands of a rapidly changing population with evolving needs and technologies.
The Cycling & Micromobility (C&M) Unit is responsible for the nation’s largest network of on-street bicycle facilities (1,500+ lane-miles), enhancing street safety, and increasing bike ridership in NYC. The team’s primary focus is on innovative redesign of City streets to expand and improve the bike network.
The Cycling & Micromobility Unit seeks to hire a highly motivated and detail-oriented GIS & Data Manager to support the management, analysis, and continuous improvement of the unit's GIS datasets, project databases, and reporting systems. Under the supervision of senior staff, the selected candidate will maintain and enhance spatial and tabular data, perform GIS analysis, develop maps and visualizations, and support data-driven planning, reporting, and decision-making across the unit.
The selected candidate will coordinate with planners, engineers, designers, project managers, and partner agencies to translate transportation projects into accurate spatial data, improve data quality and reporting systems, and support the production of the official New York City Bike Map. The position will play a central role in maintaining the unit's project tracking systems and developing new tools and workflows that improve the accuracy, efficiency, and accessibility of Cycling & Micromobility data. The candidate will manage GIS datasets and project databases supporting bicycle and micromobility planning, capital project development, network tracking, and reporting. The candidate will translate transportation projects into accurate spatial and tabular data through review of engineering plans, project documents, aerial imagery, and field observations to maintain the City's authoritative bicycle network dataset. The candidate will perform GIS analysis and prepare maps, dashboards, reports, and data visualizations to support planning studies, project development, performance reporting, and executive decision-making. The candidate will coordinate with planners, engineers, designers, project managers, and partner agencies to collect, validate, and integrate project information across multiple data systems. The candidate will develop new database tools, reporting workflows, and quality control procedures that improve project tracking, network analysis, and organizational efficiency. The candidate will support production of the official New York City Bike Map and prepare maps, exhibits, and other visual materials for presentations, public outreach, and agency communications. The candidate will perform other related duties as assigned.
The Department of Transportation's (DOT) mission is to provide for the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people and goods in the City of New York and to maintain and enhance the transportation infrastructure crucial to the economic vitality and quality of life of our primary customers, City residents. DOT is an equal opportunity employer, committed to recruiting and maintaining a diverse workforce in an open and inclusive environment.
CITY RESEARCH SCIENTIST - 21744

1. For Assignment Level I (only physical, biological and environmental sciences and public health) A master's degree from an accredited college or university with a specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological or environmental science or in public health.
To be appointed to Assignment Level II and above, candidates must have:
1. A doctorate degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and one year of full-time experience in a responsible supervisory, administrative or research capacity in the appropriate field of specialization; or
2. A master's degree from an accredited college or university with specialization in an appropriate field of physical, biological, environmental or social science and three years of responsible full-time research experience in the appropriate field of specialization; or
3. Education and/or experience which is equivalent to "1" or "2" above. However, all candidates must have at least a master's degree in an appropriate field of specialization and at least two years of experience described in "2" above. Two years as a City Research Scientist Level I can be substituted for the experience required in "1" and "2" above.

NOTE:
Probationary Period
Appointments to this position are subject to a minimum probationary period of one year.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.