Our Food Environments Team are seeking a skilled and innovative Senior Geospatial Specialist with expertise in ESRI’s ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online to join our NHMRC-funded Australian Food Atlas project (AFA). This unique and innovative project will be the first in Australia to comprehensively map, measure and monitor food access across jurisdictions, creating a national 'Food Atlas' that maps, measures and monitors food access across Australia. Designed around the needs of professionals in food policy, public health, and planning roles, our AFA will spatially visualise a community's ability to access food, identifying the people and places with limited access to healthy food and/or an over-abundance of unhealthy food. This unique level of evidence will be used to inform food and nutrition policy and surveillance, support planning decisions and future policy direction to create equitable, health-promoting communities that foster healthy eating.

This role involves leveraging advanced geospatial technologies and programming skills to analyse spatial data, develop geospatial solutions, produce high quality maps and support decision-making processes whilst working on the AFA. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in the creation, integration, manipulation, and analysis of spatial data, ideally in Public Health or health related fields, development and maintenance of scripts to assist data processing, and have hands-on experience with ArcGIS software.