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Job Category: Cartographic Analyst Location: St. Louis, MO.

Schedule: Full-time

Travel: None

Shift: Day Job

Potential for Teleworking: No

Clearance Level: Top Secret / SCI

Description:

Nelson Intelligence Solutions prides itself on having the most diverse and accomplished staff you will find in your career. NiS offers fantastic benefits and an amazing workplace culture where you will feel valued while you perform mission-critical work for the federal government. NiS is seeking a Cartographic Analyst to join our growing team. As a Cartographic Analyst, the selected candidate will support the Maritime Safety Office (SFH) at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Campus West (NCE-W) in St. Louis, MO. NiS will supply support to SFH to quantitatively improve the mission areas of Digital Nautical Chart Production and Notice to Mariners through contractor support to existing operational activities.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Geography, GIS, or equivalent military Cartographic training as an Army MOS of 12Y or Marine Corps MOS of 0261 and experience (4 years of experience instead of degree).

Relevant experience in the following: Geospatial Analysis, Intelligence Community, geospatial data formats, ESRI ArcGIS10 and personal Geodatabases, intelligence fusion analysis, and NGA data products and standards.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of relevant experience, in which a bachelor's degree in a related field may count for up to 4 years of experience.
• Expertise and experience in geography, cartography, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) which includes skill in ArcGIS applications.
• Expertise and experience in creating shapefiles, geo-databases, and features.
• Knowledge of geospatial analysis software suites (GIS commercial software packages such as ArcGIS, ERDAS & SocetSet GXP, including common office software to include spreadsheets and word processing) used by NGA to accomplish its mission.
• Knowledge of digital cartography, image processing, geographical information systems (GIS), geospatial production techniques, and NGA digital data formats.
• Expertise in research information gathering for the following sources: Primary legal documents that pertain to the delimitation, demarcation, and maintenance of the boundary, including textual descriptions, coordinate lists, reports and accompanying maps, native maps, secondary source maps, and historic maps used for extraction and comparison. Mapping imagery for stereo and mono extraction at various resolutions using digital terrain elevation data sets.
• Expertise in preparing source material for digitizing, attribution, digitizing boundaries from georeferenced and ortho-rectified sources, applying projection, datum, and coordinate transformations, geo-referencing, and ortho-rectifying source materials (maps, imagery) and extracting vectors from stereo imagery or elevation data.

Physical Requirements:

Regularly required to sit for extended periods up to 80% of the time; frequently required to move about to access file cabinets and use office equipment such as PC, copier, fax, telephone, cell phone, etc.

Occasionally required to reach overhead, bend, and lift objects of up to 10 lbs.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include the use of computer monitor screens up to 80% of the time.

NiS Overview NiS is a Service-Disabled veteran-owned business with an emphasis on Federal government opportunities in support of the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, and State and local government. NiS is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age, or genetic information.