GIS Technician / Office Coordinator

Job Duties

• Manage front-desk operations, including greeting visitors, routing mail/emails, answering phones, and receiving packages.
• Cook up logistics for executive staff, including meeting scheduling, room preparation, presentation drafting, and minute-taking.
• Process staff Time & Attendance records and manage official government travel authorizations and vouchers.
• Serve as a point of contact to assist field offices and staff with administrative procedures and organizational inquiries.
• Perform spatial, graphical, and statistical data analysis, utilizing remote sensing and GIS techniques to support coastal and geospatial environment initiatives.
• Create, organize, and maintain digital and paper geodetic holdings, databases, and comprehensive metadata.
• Collaborate with internal and external mapping professionals to ensure high-level Quality Control (QC) on all products, and assist in publishing results online.
• Conduct project analysis using PMBOK principles and collaborate with team members to propose innovative workflow and system improvements.
• Author and prepare technical reports, memos, manuscripts, and project documentation.
• Meet with leadership and stakeholders, design outreach materials, present at internal/external venues, and statistically analyze customer feedback.
• Provide technical assistance and training to staff and end-users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's of Science degree in GIS, Geography, Math, or related STEM discipline.
• Ability to multitask, manage schedules, handle front-desk/customer-service tasks, maintain inventory, and keep meticulous logs or records.
• Strong mathematical or statistical skills with the ability to learn and support GIS tool development.
• Academic familiarity with geodetic concepts, datums, or the National Spatial Reference System (NSRS) is highly desirable.
• Good understanding of the technology and a solid background in STEM.
• Working knowledge of basic programming languages, e.g. Python, Matlabs, and managing metadata files, e.g. JSON, xxl, html, would be beneficial.
• Interpersonal and organizational skills to act as a liaison between building occupants, technical staff, and management.
• Attention to detail necessary for performing Quality Control on data and administrative workflows.
• Ability to work effectively as a team and independently.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and the ability to work with sensitive or classified data.
• Ability to lift heavy boxes and equipment up to 50 lbs.
• Must be a US Citizen or a Permanent Resident and be able to pass a Public Trust background investigation to obtain a security badge.

Pay

The salary for this position is approximately $60,000 - $70,000/year.

Schedule

This is an on-site position supporting work in Corbin, VA.