GIS College Aide
New York, NYJob$19.14–24.08/hrSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 3 days ago
Most applications go out cold — see where you stand first. No sign-up to start.
You apply on the employer's site, with no Olive account needed.
Watch jobs like this. New roles like this one near New York, NY, by email.
Don't just apply. Show up ready.
Olive works from this exact posting.
At a glance
Olive lists jobs from US employers, including remote roles you can work from the United States.
Job overview
The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion unit conducts population and programmatic research and analysis and develops operational tools. Under the supervision of the Senior GIS Analyst and Program Manager, the GIS College Aide conducts spatial analysis, develops visualizations, and supports scripts that generate, update, and publish map products. The role also involves preparing data, maps, reports, and presentations.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
Job Description
The New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) invests in a network of community-based organizations and programs to alleviate the effects of poverty and to provide opportunities for New Yorkers and communities to flourish. The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion unit conducts population and programmatic research and analysis, and develops tools to support agency operations. This includes the development of the Language Dashboard and the Public Engagement Tracker. Under the supervision of the Sr. GIS Analyst & Program Manager, the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) College Aide will conduct spatial analysis and develop visualizations. They will support the team with writing scripts (ex. using Python or Arcade) to automatically generate, update, and publish map products. The College Aide will:
-
Locate, process, and acquire demographic, census, or other open-source data sets.
-
Format data received from internal and external sources to make them usable in analytic software;
-
Prepare maps, and displays using ESRI ArcGIS Pro & AGOL and/or related software and extensions;
-
Work with census data, agency program data, and other sources to do spatial analysis;
-
Clean, analyze and interpret complex social, economic, and population data, trends and provide
recommendations;
- Prepare charts and graphs, write reports, and present results; - Complete other special projects as
requested.
COLLEGE AIDE - ASSIGNMENT LEVE - 1020B
Qualifications
For Assignment Level I:
Matriculation at an accredited college or graduate school. Employment is conditioned upon continuance as a student in a college or graduate school.
For Assignment Level II (Information Technology):
Matriculation at an accredited college or graduate school. Employment is conditioned upon continuance as a student in a college or graduate school with a specific course of study in information technology, computer science, management information systems, data processing, or closely related field, including or supplemented by 9 semester credits in an acceptable course of study.
For Assignment Level III (Information Technology Fellow):
Matriculation at an accredited college or graduate school. Employment is conditioned upon continuance as a student in a college or graduate school with a specific course of study in information technology, computer science, management information systems, data processing, or other area relevant to the information technology project(s) assigned, including or supplemented by 9 semester credits in an acceptable course of study. Appointments to this Assignment Level will be made by the Technology Steering Committee through the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications.
SPECIAL NOTE
Maximum tenure for all Assignment Levels in the title of College Aide is 6 years. No student shall be employed more than half-time in any week in which classes in which the student is enrolled are in session. Students may be employed full-time during their vacation periods.
Additional Information
The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.
Salary Min: $ 19.14
Salary Max: $ 24.08
How this job compares
Set against the 5,149 open Data Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 8, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$19.14–24.08/hr
- New York median$25–30/hr44 hourly ranges
- US median$29–34/hr320 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $21.61/hr, is 17% below the New York median midpoint ($26/hr) — in the middle half of Data Analyst hourly ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 494 open Data Analyst jobs in New York and 5,149 across the US. 6% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- City of New York (this employer)30 open
- Capital One13 open
- New York State Civil Service13 open
- Experience
- Data Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (3,827 postings).
- Education
- 2,211 of the 5,149 open Data Analyst jobs (43%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 8, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
Prepare for this role
You've read the whole posting — now see how you match it.
