Employment Opportunity - GIS Technician (16-Week Term)
Employment Opportunity
GIS Technician - (16-week Term)
The County of Annapolis is currently seeking a GIS Technician Intern to join our Municipal Planning & Inspection Services team! This is an opportunity to work amongst the breathtaking natural beauty of the Bay of Fundy shoreline and the lush Annapolis River, where you will be captivated by coastal communities, towns, village, historic properties and stunning parks that are the pride of our County. Annapolis County is an ideal location to live, work and play.
The GIS Technician Intern shall be responsible for assisting staff with locating and identifying municipal water and wastewater infrastructure within serviced areas using Global Positioning System (GPS) equipment and related software. Key responsibilities include the collection and verification of infrastructure data, ensuring a high level of accuracy in its capture and documentation, compiling data within a municipal geodatabase, and preparing working drawings and mapping products in both digital and hard-copy formats for use by municipal staff and contractors. The data collected will support municipal planning, system upgrades, and area rate charge assessments. The intern shall carry out other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time. This job description is a general outline of duties and responsibilities and is not meant to limit the employee’s initiative to expand or increase their work output, subject to approval by their supervisor.
Qualifications:
Candidates for this position must be enrolled and eligible for a co-op position through a recognized computer technology or engineering technology related program at a Nova Scotia Community College or similar. Previous experience working with information technology or engineering technology would be considered an asset.
Due to the nature of this position, the employee must have strong computer, programming and coding experience, along with basic audio and video capabilities, and have positive past working relationships with multiple functional and managerial departments, be fluent with Microsoft Office, VMWARE, VEEAM, and WatchGuard, and comfortable working in an environment that has short timelines and high political and social media attention. This position will occasionally require work outside of normal office hours including evenings, weekends, and holidays.
For a complete job description please click here: Employment Opportunities
Deadline for submissions: 4:00PM on March 9, 2026
Sabrina Uccello, Human Resources Coordinator
(902) 532-0890
Email: employment@annapoliscounty.ca
Municipality of the County of Annapolis
PO Box 100, 752 St, George Street
Annapolis Royal, NS B0S1A0
Applications will not be accepted via Social Media (Facebook)
The County of Annapolis thanks all those for applying but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Statement of Intent: Our goal is to be a diverse and inclusive workforce representative of the communities we serve at all job levels. We encourage applications from Indigenous People, Persons of African Descent, Black/African Nova Scotians and other Racially Visible Persons, Persons Living with Disabilities, Gender Diverse Persons and members of other historically excluded communities. While we recognize the inherent difficulty of doing so, members of equity seeking communities are encouraged to self-identify in their cover letter or your resume.