MoreDes Plaines, Ill. - URISA invites experienced geospatial professionals of
all kinds – particularly those with management experience – to review and
comment on a draft of the Geospatial Management Competency Model (GMCM).
Reviews by GIS professionals, professional surveyors, photogrammetrists and
remote sensing scientists, programmers and application developers who
specialize in geospatial applications, educators with specialized expertise in
GIS and technology, and others whose work relies on geospatial technologies and
data analysis are all welcome to participate.
A URISA task force prepared the draft for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (DOLETA). Reviews will be reported to the task force and DOLETA, and will used to refine and validate the GMCM. Reviewers who share contact information will also receive results of the public review as well as copies of the revised GMCM.
The GMCM specifies 74 essential competencies and 17 competency areas that characterize the work of most successful managers in the geospatial industry.
The GMCM builds upon DOLETA’s Geospatial Technology Competency Model, which specifies the foundational, industry-wide and industry sector-specific expertise characteristic of the various occupations that comprise the geospatial industry.
URISA convened a task force composed of ten experienced geospatial managers and one facilitator at the 2011 GIS-Pro Conference in Indianapolis to produce the GMCM for DOLETA.
Links to the draft GMCM and an online questionnaire for reviewers are available at http://www.urisa.org/gmcm_review. The questionnaire will remain open through March 31, 2012.
URISA’s qualifications to organize the GMCM effort include its nearly 50-year history as one of the founding organizations of the GIS profession, its successful organization of the GIS Certification Institute and the URISA Leadership Academy, and its healthy working relationships with other professional and scientific associations in the geospatial field through the Coalition on Geospatial Organizations (COGO).
A URISA task force prepared the draft for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (DOLETA). Reviews will be reported to the task force and DOLETA, and will used to refine and validate the GMCM. Reviewers who share contact information will also receive results of the public review as well as copies of the revised GMCM.
The GMCM specifies 74 essential competencies and 17 competency areas that characterize the work of most successful managers in the geospatial industry.
The GMCM builds upon DOLETA’s Geospatial Technology Competency Model, which specifies the foundational, industry-wide and industry sector-specific expertise characteristic of the various occupations that comprise the geospatial industry.
URISA convened a task force composed of ten experienced geospatial managers and one facilitator at the 2011 GIS-Pro Conference in Indianapolis to produce the GMCM for DOLETA.
Links to the draft GMCM and an online questionnaire for reviewers are available at http://www.urisa.org/gmcm_review. The questionnaire will remain open through March 31, 2012.
URISA’s qualifications to organize the GMCM effort include its nearly 50-year history as one of the founding organizations of the GIS profession, its successful organization of the GIS Certification Institute and the URISA Leadership Academy, and its healthy working relationships with other professional and scientific associations in the geospatial field through the Coalition on Geospatial Organizations (COGO).
