GIS Analyst with Security Clearance

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Job description

Overview:
The Department of State, Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, Directorate of Program Development, Coordination, and Support (DOS/OBO/PDCS) is responsible for the design, coordination, and management of OBO's construction and renovation programs. The Office of Design and Engineering (PDCS/DE) provides expertise in architecture; landscape architecture; space programming; space planning; interior design; graphic design; sustainability; civil structural, blast, geotechnical, electrical, and mechanical engineering; telecommunications; and security. DE directs design coordination of OBO's building program and manages designs from planning through construction. DE monitors the performance of the architecture-engineering contractors hired to execute OBO's projects. The office serves as the building code official, confirms the technical adequacy of construction documents, and issues building permits. The Civil/Structural Engineering Division (PDCS/DE/CSE) is OBO's technical resource regarding civil, structural/seismic, blast, and geotechnical engineering throughout the project lifecycle process. CSE provides technical consultation and assistance from the acquisition and planning phase through design and construction. CSE's objectives include ensuring new and existing facilities are built to appropriate design standards by administering technical reviews and providing support during construction toward achieving optimal facility effectiveness through the application of best design practices and new technologies. Responsibilities: As a Program Analyst, the incumbent will report to the assigned Program Manager for work assignments associated with programs in support of OBO's mission. In furtherance of these responsibilities, the incumbent performs tasks and assignments that may include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following:
• Develops and manages internal tools and/or processes to improve efficiency for office engineering and/or program tasks.
• Leads and/or supports meetings with internal and external
• Completes miscellaneous tasks including but not limited to, searching/finding/distributing reports/documents, developing information guidance (notices, HR, points of contacts, lists, ), and development and promulgation of policies and standard operating procedures.
• Researches, analyzes, and shares natural hazards data with relevant stakeholders toward the program objective of developing data informed strategies that create resilience across a global diplomatic portfolio.
• Work as the GIS/Data point of contact and/or provide GIS support in the development of map layers and other GIS work products, which may include but would not be limited to:
Merging multiple shapefile layers into a single layer with consistent
Perform a variety of statistical and spatial analyses on geospatial data, and visualize analytics through interactive tables, charts, and graphs to identify meaningful patterns/
Produce maps that display the spatial distribution of several kinds of
Help assure the functionality, quality and currency of assets and data
• Coordinates directly with counterparts at other federal agencies, including the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as warranted, to remain current on best practices for obtaining, maintaining, and sharing relevant natural hazards data. Qualifications:
• Must be a US. citizen.
• Experience in the established concepts, principles, and methods related to OBO's mission sufficient to enable the incumbent to perform recurring assignments of moderate difficulty (i.e., where methods and techniques are well established, apply to most situations encountered, and do not require significant deviation from established methods) or to perform discrete portions of more complex problems.
• Ability to apply knowledge to assist in the planning, design, construction, maintenance, risk management, and/or program coordination of a variety of new and existing overseas facilities of varying types.
• Ability to communicate orally and in writing on complex, controversial, and time-sensitive matters to diverse audiences.
• Experience and capabilities in the use of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access), and Microsoft Project.
• Broad knowledge of concepts and principles of data management and analytics sufficient to perform analytical work of moderate difficulty and advise on and explain recommended strategies and specific actions.
• As applicable, ability to understand the use of relevant GIS and other computer
• Proficiency in the Esri ArcGIS suite of applications, especially ArcGIS Pro and Esri
• Experience working with apps including ArcGIS Portal, Dashboards, Experience Builder, Story Maps, Insights, and ModelBuilder is preferred.
• Experience developing scripts in SQL, Python, and JavaScript to automate workflow and improve productivity of GIS tools. Familiarity with ArcGIS Arcade is a plus.
• Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau, SharePoint and other analytics and visualization programs, plugins, and APIs and interest in their intersection with GIS mapping to build more comprehensive analysis tools.
• Working knowledge of a variety of geospatial data types and formats including, but not limited to, NetCDF, GeoTIFF, KML, KMZ, shapefile, raster, file geodatabase, digital elevation model (DEM), and LiDAR
• Ability to receive geospatial deliverables and process/convert formats for use in internal maps and Dashboards (e.g., extraction of data from a NetCDF to create a raster layer).
• Familiarity with digitizing and geo-referencing paper or pdf/image file maps into GIS-compatible
• Program Analyst-a bachelor's degree in a related field and three (3) years of related experience.

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