Geographic information systems consultant

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Role: GIS Consultant

📍 Location: Birmingham Or Manchester

⏰ Full Time or Part Time: Full Time - Permanent

🏢 Directorate: GIS

💼 Salary: Competitive

About Us:

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.

Role Purpose:

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.

Key Responsibilities:

* 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.

Skills & Experience:

* 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

Equal Opportunity Statement:

🌈 We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer, and we’re passionate about creating a workplace where you’re empowered to bring your authentic self to work every day. 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.

🚀 If you’re ready to grow with a business that’s scaling rapidly and making a real impact, you’re in the right place!

✉️ To apply or learn more about this opportunity, please submit your CV to people@ardent-management.com or reach out to Savanna Poselay at savannaposelay@ardent-management.com