Mapping & Data Officer - Signal Research Services Guildford HQ Salary: £20,538 pro rata (6 month contract) The Signal Research Services team provides an innovative contract research service to police forces nationally. Through the use of bespoke interviewing and analysis software, police officers are able to capture vital intelligence from the local community regarding crime and disorder and public insecurity in local neighbourhoods. The overall purpose of this role is to provide GIS services to the Signal Research Services team and your responsibilities will include uploading electronic map files to client hardware and production of large scale hard copy maps from OS files. You will also undertake the downloading and cleaning of electronically collected geo-spatial data from client hardware, undertaking analysis of this data where required. To be successful, you will have an honours degree (or equivalent) in a spatial data or information management related subject, along with significant GIS experience, preferably Map Info ®. You will be highly computer literate and any programming knowledge you may have would be an advantage. In addition, you will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work both in a team and unsupervised on your own initiative. To download an application form and request a job profile please visit the careers page on our website: www.surrey.police.uk <http://www.surrey.police.uk/> quoting reference CSD/05/83. The closing date for receipt of applications is 19th August 2005. Please do not reply to posting email address Internet communications are not secure and therefore Surrey Police does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. This email and any attachments may be confidential. They may contain privileged information and are intended for the named addressee (s) only. They must not be distributed without our consent. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete the message and any attachments from your computer, do not disclose, distribute, or retain this email or any part of it. Unless expressly stated, opinions in this email are those of the individual sender, and not of Surrey Police. We believe but do not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments are virus free. You must therefore take full responsibility for virus checking. Surrey Police reserves the right to monitor all email communications through their networks. To unsubscribe or modify your gis-jobs settings, please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/gis-jobs