Cartographer

$60,400 - $137,000/Yr

Booz Allen Hamilton - Washington, DC

Part-time,Full-time - Mid Level

Washington, DC

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Cartographer will be responsible for conducting cartographic-based requests, maintaining geographic databases, and ensuring the quality and standardization of maps. This role involves analyzing and creating maps while adhering to established cartographic standards and procedures. The Cartographer will also provide support for ad hoc map creation and cartographic design as needed.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cartographic-based requests for clients.
• Maintain responsibility for all geographic databases, including shapefiles, hard copy maps, rasters, vectors, imagery, and geographic data.
• Distribute needed files to designers in appropriate formats.
• Ensure maps are designed correctly and maintain quality assurance and quality control oversight.
• Ensure cartographic principal standardization, best practices, and procedures are followed.
• Analyze and write cartographic standard operating procedures.
• Provide ad hoc map creation and cartographic design support as needed.

Requirements

• Experience using Microsoft products, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint, and Adobe Suite.
• Knowledge of GIS principles, including data types, data layers, basic geographic, analytic, and statistical functions, geographic coordinate systems, and data formatting.
• Ability to apply IC and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.
• Ability to use cartography tools, including ArcGIS Maps, ArcGIS Pro, Remote View, and ArcMap.
• Ability to collect, analyze, and integrate geographic and substantive data into an effectively designed cartographic product.
• Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam.
• Bachelor's degree in Cartography, Geography, or Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and 3+ years of experience with cartography, or 7+ years of experience with cartography in lieu of a degree.

Nice-to-haves

• Ability to get work done in a rapidly changing and task-oriented environment.
• Ability to pay strict attention to detail.
• Ability to be flexible and learn new technologies or tools quickly.
• Ability to work in a dynamic multi-contractor environment.
• Possession of excellent interpersonal skills.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Life insurance coverage
• Disability insurance coverage
• Financial and retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Professional development
• Tuition assistance
• Work-life programs
• Dependent care support
• Recognition awards program for exceptional performance