Geographer; GIS Specialist

Duties

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.