DescriptionIDWR’s mission is to serve the citizens of Idaho by ensuring that water is conserved and available to sustain Idaho’s economy, ecosystems and resulting quality of life.

This position is located in the Geospatial Information Systems Section at the State Office in Boise.
Example of Duties

• Serves as the manager for Idaho’s Evapotranspiration (ET) monitoring program
• Plans, develops, coordinates, implements, and evaluates IDWR’s ET Program
• Develops, reviews, and performs processing of satellite based ET data
• Develops new and maintains existing GIS image processing related scripts / programs
• Downloads, processes, and conducts QAQC of weather data from AgriMet, RAWS, and NWS COOP stations
• Develops ET statistics for water rights compliance and other areas as needed
• Collaborates with and supports staff in water resource and water use assessments
• Develops satellite based land use and land cover data
• Works independently and collaboratively to fulfill project goals and meet project deadlines

Minimum Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related physical, biological, remote sensing, or agricultural science field with at least 8 years of experience in one or more of these disciplines: OR a Master’s degree or higher in engineering or the aforementioned related science and natural resource fields with 5 years of experience in one of these disciplines.
• Demonstrated abilities with Energy balance evapotranspiration (ET) modeling & analysis and water resource management.
• Comprehensive knowledge of spatial analysis and modeling using Esri ArcGIS or ERDAS platforms.
• Considerable knowledge of programming in one or more computer programming languages (e.g. Python, JavaScript, C#, etc.)

Supplemental InformationDesirable Qualifications:

• If interested in being considered for this position, please submit your cover letter and résumé, along with your application.
• PH.D. in engineering or a related physical, biological, remote sensing, or agricultural science
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively to fulfill project goals and meet project deadlines
• Development and application of geospatial & hydrologic modeling, and interpretation of outcomes from spatial optimization models
• Demonstrated abilities with batch processing, high performance computing of remote sensing and gridded weather data
• Application of remote sensing in environmental or natural resource planning and analyses
• Good knowledge of time series analysis
• Experience with leading a technical program
• Demonstrated abilities to teach / train adults one-on-one and in classroom settings
• Strong verbal, written and illustrative communication skills