Full Job Description: GIS Consultant Job-Description (May to need be accessed via Desktop or our Careers website: )&##Role: GIS Consultant
&##Full Time or Part Time: Full Time - Permanent
&##Directorate: GIS
&##Ardent is the UK’s leading provider of land, consent management, and stakeholder engagement services, supporting major infrastructure and regeneration projects from concept to delivery. We are passionate about delivering life-improving change for communities and future generations.
As a GIS Consultant, you will deliver high-quality geospatial support, ensuring spatial data, mapping, and analysis underpin effective decision-making on nationally significant projects. Elevate the quality and consistency of our spatial outputs, improve collaboration across teams, and contribute to the development of our GIS capabilities.
Manage and maintain spatial datasets and mapping resources, ensuring data integrity, consistency, and accessibility across projects, enabling accurate analysis and confident decision-making.
Produce high-quality maps, spatial analyses, and visualizations that provide clear and reliable spatial insights to inform planning, design, and stakeholder engagement activities.
Develop and manage ESRI Web Apps, Dashboards, and Experience Builder tools to enhance collaboration and transparency, allowing project teams and clients to interact with live, user-friendly spatial data.
Support project teams in the use and understanding of GIS outputs, improving data literacy across the organization and ensuring spatial information is effectively interpreted and applied in project decisions.
Uphold GIS data standards, coordinate systems, and quality control procedures to maintain spatial accuracy and alignment with industry and organizational standards, reducing rework and ensuring professional, consistent outputs.
Strong proficiency in ESRI ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, and associated tools for map production and spatial analysis, enabling the efficient creation of accurate, professional-quality maps and spatial analyses to support decision-making, site selection, and project planning.
Experience setting up and managing ESRI Web Apps, including Dashboards and Experience Builder, providing accessible, interactive, and real-time visualizations for project teams and stakeholders, improving collaboration, transparency, and understanding of spatial information across the business.
Knowledge and experience working on land, planning, infrastructure, or renewable energy projects, ensuring GIS outputs are relevant and aligned with sector-specific requirements, enabling better integration of spatial data into project workflows, from feasibility through to delivery.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain GIS outputs to non-technical audiences, translating complex spatial analysis into clear, actionable insights, supporting informed decision-making and strengthening engagement with clients, partners, and internal teams.
Pay Range and Compensation Package:
✨ Hybrid working
✨ 25 days of annual leave (with options to buy or carry over)
✨ Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
✨ Company pension scheme
✨ Benenden Health Care (mental health support, 24/7 GP services, physiotherapy, optical and dental cover, personal accident protection)
✨ Cycle to Work scheme, electric car leasing, recognition awards, long service leave, discretionary annual bonus scheme
We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive team where everyone belongs. We welcome talent from all backgrounds and actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups.
&##To apply or learn more about this opportunity, please submit your CV to people@ardent-management.