GIS Specialist

Job Title: GIS Specialist 

Client: FWS Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS) 

Location/Remote: Falls Church, VA (2-3 days in office, 2-3 days WFH

Clearance: Active Public Trust Clearance, and US Citizenship and Green Card 

Inalab Consulting has a contingent opening (based on contract award) for the GIS Analyst to lead the development team supporting US Fish and Wildlife, ECOS Contract. 

The GIS Analyst –will have overall responsibilities are: 

• Provide GIS technical support, knowledge and recommendations that are consistent with
• Federal policies, procedures, regulations, and statutes as they relate to technology.
• b. Provide mapping support to lead offices with curating spatial data across the range of a
• species to ensure shared interpretation.
• c. Coordinate across offices on an appropriate scale for mapping shared species.
• d. Provide quality assurance / quality control on a range of projects consistent with developed.
• SOPs and refine SOPs based on feedback from project participants.
• e. Identify and help create/collect spatial data objects/layers as needed to benefit multiple.
• species in range mapping efforts.
• f. Support revision of data standards and procedures for the species range maps in
• ECOS/ECOSphere, including meta-data management and quality control and quality.
• assurance review protocols.
• g. Coordinate across offices, under the supervision of BDI staff, on appropriate scale for
• mapping shared species.
• h. Support BDI management in making recommendations for capturing current Range data.
• in ECOS/ECOSphere.
• Assist in projects that are implementing the SRP protocols to inform and further refine.
• the range delineation.
• j. Provide support in development of recommendations and implementation of approved to
• host the new or revised species range maps in ECOS/ECOSphere.
• k. Support the project’s effort to continue a collaborative network of ES managers and users.
• to implement the SRP SOP and develop species range maps for over species for which.
• Ecological Services is responsible.
• l. Assist in coordination and engagement work with other Federal agencies, States, nongovernmental
• organizations, and other interested parties in sharing data that inform.
• species range delineations.
• m. Participate as needed in working groups and assist in developing additional or revise.
• existing standard operating protocols or guidance to address range map requirements,
• processes, or procedures.
• This could include developing additional methodologies and conducting spatial.
• analyses on individual or groups of species, including but not limited to:
• connectivity, prioritization, climate change (using species distribution models),
• and landcover modeling and change analyses.

Qualifications:

• knowledge of R, R Shiny, workflows, big data, geographical information
• systems (GIS)
• Spatial data management and manipulation; data modeling; proven experience
• managing a GIS-based data system.
• Skill in communicating effectively (orally and in writing); ability to communicate and coordinate effectively with multiple partners, working teams, and organizations; and proven project management abilities, including experience in managing.
• Complex tasks, including short-term and long-term planning, goal, and policy setting, and monitoring accomplishments.

About Inalab Consulting, Inc.

Inalab Consulting is a leading Small Business IT solutions and strategy consulting firm focused on providing solutions that transform enterprise operations in the government and commercial sectors by dependably bridging the gap between business strategy and technology. The company was founded in 2005 and is a privately held company headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. We see technology as an efficient, economical means to an end, and are dedicated to crafting technical solutions that result in increasing interoperable, responsive, and cost-effective enterprises. We are totally focused on providing “Cost-effective Solutions” to our customers.

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