WLU Press
1 - 10 employees
Founded 1974
📚 Education
📱 Media
Education • Media • Publishing
WLU Press is the publishing arm of Wilfrid Laurier University, focused on producing academic and scholarly works. It aims to support research and disseminate knowledge through a variety of publications that cater to the academic community and beyond. WLU Press also offers career opportunities within the publishing sector for those interested in academic publishing.
Public Safety GIS & Data Analytics
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🕒 May 22
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WLU Press
1 - 10 employees
Founded 1974
📚 Education
📱 Media
Education • Media • Publishing
WLU Press is the publishing arm of Wilfrid Laurier University, focused on producing academic and scholarly works. It aims to support research and disseminate knowledge through a variety of publications that cater to the academic community and beyond. WLU Press also offers career opportunities within the publishing sector for those interested in academic publishing.
📋 Description
• Provide advanced-level geospatial and intelligence components. • Provide the learner with the theoretical and advanced application levels of how geographic information systems provide data that can be transformed into actionable intelligence. • Develop the necessary skills to access, analyze, and communicate real-time information to support intelligence-led and evidence-based responses by public safety personnel. • Encourage students to critically analyze how social issues and factors relate to the outputs of geospatial intelligence, and the potential ethical challenges of how these outputs may be misused or misapplied.
🎯 Requirements
• Master’s Degree • Discipline: Public Administration, Public Safety, Criminology, Business, Geography • Doctorate preferred. • Extensive research and/or work experience in the field of public safety with a focus on geospatial analysis. • Certifications/experience in: Geographic Information Specialist Designation (GISP); extensive experience using the ESRI software suite, including ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, and other Public Safety and/or municipal/urban planning related software; • Experience with and designing lab exercises for SIMSI’s Risk Terrain Modelling (RTMDx) software; • Experience with and designing lab exercises for ThirdEye Data’s software SAFERA 7; • Experience with and designing lab exercises for Microsoft Excel and/or Power BI suite software; • Understanding of and application capacity for OSINT tools within a geospatial and intelligence context. • Ability to incorporate GIS-generated materials into tactical public safety analyses and dashboards is required. • Experience in teaching at the graduate level, with previous experience in developing courses and/or teaching in an online environment. • Receptive to incorporating pedagogical approaches that specifically embrace online adult learners. • Knowledge of learning management systems (particularly Brightspace from Desire2Learn) would be an asset.
🏖️ Benefits
• Required for All Applicants CV (required) • Candidate Application Form (CAF) Required for External Applicants • Names and Contact Information for Referees • Evidence of Good Teaching • Verification of highest degree • Optional Cover Letter • Teaching Dossier • Sample Course Outline (2-pages maximum)
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