Geographer (GIS Specialist)

About the role

If selected you'll serve as a GIS Specialist providing a range of geospatial support as a member of the VS CEAH Geospatial Analytics, Products, and Services (GAPS) Unit. The position involves participating on a multi-disciplinary team to support animal health, animal disease outbreaks and mitigation, epidemiology investigations, risk identification & analyses, geospatial analyses and modeling, and cartographic/map production.

Responsibilities

• Participates in a multi-disciplinary team and is highly skilled in using GIS to support animal health, animal disease outbreaks, epidemiology investigations, geospatial risk analyses, geospatial modeling, and cartographic or map production.
• Configures, enhances, and maintains web maps and map applications to meet program requests.
• Creates and publishes GIS solutions for the collection and presentation of relevant data in support of the agency’s various missions.
• Uses spatial analysis techniques and tools to collect and analyze data in a geospatial context to ascertain and interpret interrelationships existing among various occurrences or processes to determine its significance or risk to the agency.
• Makes appropriate recommendations on how best to visually display data, which may originate from existing diverse sources or may be derived through surveillance activities.
• Works with thematic data creating data layers to support program operations and management decisions, emergency planning & response, and GIS analytics.

Requirements

Individuals who were born male after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.

Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.

Successful completion of one-year probationary period, unless previously served. Refer to the Next Steps section for more information.

Qualifications

• BASIC REQUIREMENT: Degree in geography or related fields, or at least 24 semester hours in geography or related fields.
• FOR THE GS-12 LEVEL: One year of specialized experience developing complex cartographic products, updating and running geospatial scripts, creating and publishing map products, and supporting geospatial projects.