SDE Engineer - The College of William and Mary, Center for Geospatial Analysis

The College of William and Mary’s Center for Geospatial Analysis (http://www.wm.edu/cga) is seeking an SDE engineer for a newly created position that requires the creation and distribution of an original geographic and demographic database describing school attendance zones for school districts throughout the United States. The database is known as the School Attendance Boundary Information System (SABINS) funded by NSF grant # SES 0921794. The SDE engineer will work collaboratively with faculty and a GIS programmer in this effort. The SDE engineer will take a leadership role in the design of a new database that will consist of digital geography delineating school attendance boundaries; this GIS data will be integrated with demographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Education and disturbed via the National Historic GIS (www.nhgis.org) housed at the Minnesota Population Center.

This is an operational position in an academic setting; the College of William and Mary is located in Williamsburg, VA. The position is 12 months with funding in hand for a second year option.  The possibility of extension pending extended or new grant support beyond two years exists.  The position comes with full benefits.  Applicants who have demonstrated success in writing and obtaining grants from public and/or private entities are highly desired.

 Review begins November 25, 2009 and will continue until the position is filled. The position start date is on or after January 1, 2010.

More information is here.