Job Description
Use an understanding of geography, research, GIS, and data conflation and management skills to produce the broad array of human geography products including attributed data, maps, including written reports. Projects and products may include research, discovery, evaluation, extraction, creation, geo-enabling, quality control/review, metadata attribution, source citation, service enabling and dissemination. Support the government in its efforts to further develop and maintain the International Program for Human Geography (IPHG) including facilitation of Quality Assurance, training activities, technical and geospatial support at Plenary and Technical meetings. Provide geospatial analysis support services to the customer IPHG and International Activities (bilateral and multi-national partnerships).
Responsibilities
- Support the customer as a Human Geography Subject Matter Expert (SME) during international meetings as specified by the Government.
- Work with Government counterparts to acquire and disseminate Human Geography data.
- Post co-produced Human Geography data to NSG data storage and dissemination solutions such as the APAN and PiX.
- Support efforts to identify potential sources of information and tools that may enhance Human Geography community awareness and sharing across the IC community, DoD, and the Civilian Agencies.
- Participate in technical exchanges with Government, partners, and personnel located at their site and virtually around the globe.
- The technical exchanges will focus on Human Geography production to Customer/IPHG standards and feature extraction/attribution issues related to Human Geography production.
- Provide support to enabling activities in support of Human Geography production (i.e. writing SOPs and how to guides, training coworkers, etc.)
Service Constraints: A minimum of one international TDY per year is required and may require as many as two per year.
Required Skills
- Top Secret Clearance with SCI Polygraph.
- 1-3 years of demonstrated experience supporting DoD or the IC&s GEOINT Mission.
- Knowledge of Human Geography concepts.
- Experience in the research, discovery and extraction of geospatial and non-geospatial information.
- Experience in imagery research, extraction and attribution.
- Proficiency in use of fundamental ArcGIS Pro software tools in the creation, attribution, schema development and utilization, management, and geo-referencing of data.
- Experience in geo-enabling non-spatial data.
- Demonstrated experience to communicate GEOINT products, data, and services to peers and leadership.
Desired Skills
- Knowledge of the regional, cultural and political geography of the region assigned.
- Experience in using established cartographic principles, geo-referencing, and naming conventions/Romanization in the creation of geo-spatial products.
- Experience in creating and publishing GEOINT products.
- Working knowledge of at least one of the foreign languages of the assigned region.
- Experience producing data and products to NSG standards.
- Experience with open source data harvest, process automation and scripting.
- Experience with data management, schema development, and data conflation.
- Experience with Google Earth Engine (GEE).
- Proficiency in Basic Python Scripting.
Job Details
$80,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year
Full-time
1 open position
Location(s): Springfield, VA
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