GIS Intern

Compensation Range

$15.00 - $57.00

Please note: This job opening may close earlier than the stated date, due to high candidate volume. If interested, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. 

Who We Are:

At the City of High Point, we celebrate the creator in everyone. Building on our rich cultural history steeped in industrialism and innovation, our employees seek not only to transform themselves, but the world around us. We are collaborators, we are makers, we are visionaries. 
  
We invite you to explore the many opportunities to serve our community, by sharing your talents, skills, and expertise. You'll join a diverse team of over 1300 individuals dedicated not just to making a career, but a difference; because what we create in High Point, changes the world! 

Our Core Values:

• Stewardship: We manage the city’s resources responsibly and make decisions that sustain High Point’s future. In other words, we take care of what we have today to build what we’ll need tomorrow
• Welcoming: We create a friendly, open environment where residents, partners, and visitors feel valued and embraced. We want everyone who connects with High Point to feel welcomed, like they belong here.
• Integrity: We act with honesty, transparency, and ethical responsibility in everything we do. That means doing what’s right – even when no one’s watching. This is how we earn our community’s trust.
• Productivity: We stay focused on results, fostering creativity, innovation, and outside-the-box thinking. We don’t just get things done – we find smarter, better ways to do them.

What We Offer:
The City of High Point offers a competitive salary commensurate with education and experience. We also offer generous benefit package for full-time employees which include but are not limited to:

• A guaranteed life-long monthly pension, once vested after 5 years of service
• 401K and 457B Retirement Plans
• PTO earned within first year
• 13 Paid Holidays per year
• Tuition Reimbursement Plan
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision plans effective day one

What You'll Do:

The hourly rate for this position is $16.14 per hour.

The City of High Point Public Services Department is seeking a GIS Intern to assist with municipal asset inventory and infrastructure mapping. The intern will support the GIS Analyst and GIS Technician with field data collection and GIS database updates related to the City’s water, sewer, stormwater, and street infrastructure systems.

Essential Tasks & Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities include GPS data collection, photo documentation, and inventory of public assets, as well as assisting with updates to infrastructure maps and GIS databases. The intern may also support document scanning, data organization, and other field-related assignments.

This internship provides experience with GIS, GPS surveying, and municipal infrastructure management while contributing to the City’s efforts to maintain accurate records of critical public assets.

Four weeks of on-the-job training will be provided to help you learn the role and build valuable professional skills.

Qualifications:

Minimum Requirements

• Hold a valid driver’s license.

• Be comfortable using common computer tools such as spreadsheets, databases, and word processing programs.

• Enjoy working with people and building positive relationships with coworkers at different experience levels.

Preferred Requirements

• Knowledge of GIS, GPS

• Academic training in the use of Geographic Information Systems

Physical & Field Work

• Be willing to work outdoors and navigate uneven terrain when needed.

• Be able to lift up to 50 pounds occasionally as part of field tasks.

Communication & Teamwork

• Be able to follow guidance from supervisors and team members.

• Feel comfortable communicating clearly, asking questions, and participating in discussions with staff and members of the public.

Skills You’ll Use and Build

• Reading and understanding maps, addresses, graphics, and statistical information.

• Following directions, ordinances, and other job-related documents.

• Writing letters, memos, and simple instructions for creating mapping products and graphics.

The work location of this job will be 816 E Green Dr High Point, North Carolina.

Our Commitments
The City of High Point is dedicated to fostering a work environment that values individuals from all backgrounds and seeks to attract and retain the most qualified partners in service to the citizens of High Point. As an at-will employer, the City allows employees to terminate their employment, or be terminated at any time, with or without cause, as long as it is not prohibited by law. 

The City of High Point is committed to classifying and compensating its employees fairly for the work they do, weighing both the internal capabilities and the external market. While the job description is not intended to and does not create a contract of employment, we are excited to use this “living document” as a guide for managing performance and positions to ensure job descriptions are reflective of the current work required by the incumbent or expected by any candidate to whom an offer of employment is extended. 

The City of High Point is committed to providing a safe, comfortable working environment for all employees. To that end, we are proud to comply with all Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements, as well as make reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees as we are able in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Candidates selected for employment must undergo (a.) a drug screening, in accordance with the City’s drug and alcohol policy and (b.) a background screening to determine whether there is any current, pending, or previous charge, conviction or other infraction deemed incompatible with service in the capacity for which the candidate is being hired. In lieu of or in addition to background screening, candidates selected for employment in a position that requires working with children in any capacity must be fingerprinted and undergo a criminal history record check conducted by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation. Certain positions are considered so critical to the health and safety of others that a candidate cannot be placed in any such position without passing a pre-placement physical exam. The City offers employment to successful candidates conditioned upon the City’s receipt of satisfactory results from all required screenings, checks, and exams, as applicable.