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Geographer (GIS Specialist)
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service · Posted 5 days ago
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.
What You'll Do
- →The duties may include, but are not limited to: 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
- ✓Please see above for education qualification requirement information.
Personality Fit
This role is commonly a great fit for these MBTI types:
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