Student Trainee, Geography w/ USGS – Lakewood, CO
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/476575900
 
Closing date: 2017-08-31
Salary: $15.24 to $22.17 / per hour
Pay scale & grade: GS 04 - 05
Series: 0199 Social Science Student Trainee
Appointment type: Pathways Internship Appointment
Work schedule: Full-Time during school breaks/Part-Time (16-32 hours per week) during the school year.
Few vacancies in the following location:
Lakewood, CO
 
This job is open to

• The public
• U.S. citizens, nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S., and excepted service employees.
• Students & recent graduates

 
General Information
This position is year-round. During the school year part-time hours will apply; however, during school breaks and the summer period, full-time hours may apply. The work schedule may be adjusted to meet the needs of the student's schedule.
 
In order to be eligible to receive consideration for this position, you must be able to: (1) report to the duty station location listed in this vacancy announcement, if selected; and (2) be available to work the schedule identified.
 
Salary NOTE: First time hires to the Federal Government are typically hired at the Step 01.
 
GS-04: $15.24 (Step 01) to $19.81 (Step 10)
GS-05: $17.05 (Step 01) to $22.17 (Step 10)
 
Eligibility Requirements
 
In order to be eligible for an appointment under the Pathways Internship Program:

• You must be a student accepted for enrollment or enrolled in a degree or certificate program on a full- or half-time basis as defined by the school (certificate program means post-secondary education, in a qualifying educational institution, equivalent to at least one academic year of full-time study that is part of an accredited college-level, technical, trade, vocational, or business school curriculum); AND
• Enrollment is with a qualifying educational institution such as a high school or state-approved homeschool; or accredited technical or vocational school; a 2- or 4-year college or university; a graduate or professional school (e.g., law school, medical school); or a post-secondary home school curriculum; AND
• Students currently enrolled must be in good academic standing maintaining a 2.0 grade point average on a cumulative basis; AND
• The duties of this position should be related to your academic or career goals.
• You must continue to meet these eligibility requirements throughout the duration of your appointment under the Pathways Internship Program.

 
Duties
The USGS National Geospatial Program is seeking associate, undergraduate, and graduate level students working towards a degree in geography or related physical or social science such as geology, meteorology, economics, statistics, sociology, anthropology, political science, history, cartography, computer science, urban studies, or planning to gain practical experience in geographic science.
 
As a Student Trainee (Geography), you will serve in a trainee capacity, performing routine and recurring development assignments to acquire knowledge and understanding of functions, principles, practices, and methods used in the area of geographic science.
 
Duties include:

• Conducting analyses of digital cartographic processes to become familiar with cartographic and geographic work methods and procedures.
• Conducting prescribed tests, operating instruments, and gathering spatial data.
• Assisting in analyzing and evaluating operating program data.

Position: Geospatial Specialist
Employer: Quantum Spatial
Location: Portland, OR
Posted on: 08/24/2017
 
For more information:
https://workforcenow.adp.com/jobs/apply/posting.html?client=quantuminc&jobId=140276
 
Description
Quantum Spatial is seeking a Geospatial Specialist to work directly with its federal government client in Portland, OR.  The position will assist Natural Resource Data Stewards (scientists and land title administrators) with GIS quality control/quality assurance on corporate GIS database and data migration. Additional responsibilities will include researching user requirements, designing and documenting geospatial data schemas, and automating the migration of spatial data from various internal and external sources.
 
Responsibilities

• Quality Assurance Quality Control: Work with client’s Data Stewards to research and conduct quality assurance audits of geospatial data. The audits include reporting quality control scores, writing Data Improvement Plans, coordinating for correction of errors and securing annual data use approvals on around 100 corporate datasets.
• Data Steward Liaison: Schedule, implement, track, coordinate and document annual needs assessment, quality assurance quality control meetings and custom geospatial data, cartography and analytical projects as specified by the client’s Data Stewards. Serve as a liaison between the Resource Data Stewards and the technical support staff to ensure completion of projects and improvement of data integrity.
• Technical Documentation: Document schema, data requirements, functions, system requirements, workflows, processes, results, metadata, data standards and user guides.
• Data Migration: Work with client’s Data Stewards, partners, and GIS technical staff to migrate disparate and complex relational, geospatial data systems on an ongoing basis.
• Field Office Data Management: Evaluate, develop, and test the system and user requirements for data management to ensure that functions meet the needs of field staff.
• Technical Support: Act as technical support liaison for users.
• Meeting Coordination: Coordinate, schedule, and facilitate meetings. Compile and deliver presentations at meetings and documenting meeting minutes.
• Project and Data Completion: Monitor progress of projects and data edits. Coordinate resolutions to ensure timely completion of assigned projects.
• Analysis and Research: As time and budget allows, conduct spatial patterning and trend research, data editing, tools development for web services or mobile field data collection. Cartographic, data export and graphing skills may be required to display results.

 
Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.
• At least three years’ experience with ESRI ArcGIS version 10.x suite of software.
• Three years’ experience with enterprise multiple-user (versioned) ArcSDE editing .
• Specific skills in GIS using current version of ESRI software on an enterprise system utilizing multiple versions on a Citrix farm.
• Experience with natural resources field data, such as lands, minerals, hazardous materials, invasive species, timber harvests, treatments, fire, hydrology, soils or range vegetation corporate databases.
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Good technical writing skills for documents such as software requirements, user guides, entity relationship diagrams, data standards, conceptual, logical and physical spatial relational database design and configuration management documents.
• Specific skills and experience in using Feature Manipulation Engine (FME) for ArcGIS to migrate disparate datasets.
• Experience in writing Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) or International Organization for Standardization (ISO) metadata.
• Experience in using ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Online web services.
• Three years’ experience interviewing users to assess and document data or system needs.
• Experience in designing and editing geodatabases with related tables to a state or national standard.

 
Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a natural resource science (i.e. Biology, Geology, Hydrology, Soil, Range, Forestry).
• Experience in the use of S1 mobile GIS tools or applications for ArcPad and/or Android for field data collection.
• Specific skills and experience in writing and professionally documenting python scripts.

 
To apply to this and similar jobs:
https://quantumspatial.com/about-us/our-team

Position: Aerial Image Intern
Employer: Quantum Spatial
Location: Novato, CA
Posted on: 08/28/2017
 
For more information:
https://workforcenow.adp.com/jobs/apply/posting.html?client=quantuminc&jobId=140376
 
Description
This position is responsible for supporting historical aerial imagery archival and sales through data management, customer service and data entry. Duties include filing contact prints and negatives, locating and re-shelving film canisters, converting hand-written records to spreadsheets and scanning film negatives to produce digital images.
 
Responsibilities

• GIS Digitization of flightlines
• Film scanning
• Client reception and assistance
• Fulfill orders
• Sort and arrange film canisters
• File contact prints
• Convert hand-written records to digital
• Data entry
• Image georeferencing and orthorectification

 
Required Qualifications

• College coursework in science, engineering, or a related field
• Understanding of geospatial concepts
• Technical proficiency with GIS software packages
• Strong prioritization and organizational skills
• Touch typing ability
• Valid driver’s license

 
Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in remote sensing
• Experience handling aerial film and related equipment
• Experience using image stereo pairs
• Experience with film scanning or processing

 
To apply:
https://quantumspatial.com/about-us/our-team

The New York Natural Heritage Program is seeking a GIS Applications Developer.  The full job posting is available on the SUNY ESF website:
https://esf.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=88194
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Natural Resource Specialist 3 (Resource Assessment Specialist)
CLOSING DATE/TIME:    08/31/17 11:59 PM
SALARY: $50,088.00 - $73,152.00 Annually
EMPLOYER: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
LOCATION: Hillsboro, Oregon
 
https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/oregon/jobs/1830123/
 
 
Description
 
DEQ has an immediate opening for one (1) Natural Resource Specialist 3 - Resource Assessment Specialist. The purpose of this position is to provide complex interdisciplinary data analysis, evaluation and assessment, and technical review of complex environmental data specifically air quality monitoring data requiring GIS, R, and other technical expertise to develop reports and products for the purpose of solving difficult natural resource problems. This position works as part of the assessment team at the laboratory. The person in this position is responsible for writing reports and producing web products and other information for DEQ, the public, other state agencies such as Oregon Health Authority, Oregon Department of Agriculture, and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife as well as tribal governments, EPA and other stakeholders such as watershed councils and citizen groups. These projects mainly focus on air reporting but may include water quality data analysis. This position is responsible for coordination with headquarters, laboratory monitoring & analytical staff, regional offices, other state agencies, and external stakeholders. This position requires cross program and interagency coordination and communication. This position works in support of agency's water and air programs.
 
Duties & Responsibilities
 
Data Review and Analysis

• Analyzes quarterly and yearly air toxics data to identify trends, benchmark exceedances, and makes recommendations to facilitate improvements in general air quality
• Independently determines appropriate statistical analyses to evaluate environmental (water and air) data and uses this evaluation in the reporting of the data
• Uses data kriging and other spatial analysis techniques in GIS and R to spatially model data including air data
• Analyzes data to identify air quality, contaminants of concern, levels and extent of contamination to determine ambient conditions, trending and cause/effect relationships
• Independently researches and suggests new ways to analyze data in support of project goals

 
Reports & Data Display

• Writes technical reports in support of agency programs and for submittal to EPA including the air toxics reports and other assessments
• Leads assessment team in data review and reporting on air toxics data including federal reporting and public reporting
• Communicates complex technical information to internal staff, DEQ management, policy makers and the public
• Supports regional and headquarters staff by providing technical review of data and reports that may support agency permit action or policy action

 
Technical Assistance

• Presents complex information to the public, internal stakeholders, and other state and federal agencies.
• Serves as project manager for special sampling projects

 
Minimum Qualifications - To be considered a qualified applicant you must meet the following criteria:
 
Three years of experience performing studies, research, resource management, compliance investigations or other activities in a Natural Resource or Environmental field related to the position.  At least one year of the experience must be at a technical or professional level performing activities such as researching and analyzing data, conducting investigations, applying pertinent laws and regulations, or coordinating and monitoring project activities;
 
AND
 
A Bachelor's degree in Natural Resources or Environmental or Earth Science or a closely-related field; OR three additional years of experience performing studies, research, or resource management activities in an environmental field with work closely related to that described in the position.
 

• A Master's degree in Natural Resources, Environmental Science or a closely-related field will substitute for up to one year of the required experience.
• A Doctorate degree in Natural Resources, Environmental Science or a closely-related field will substitute for up to two years of the required experience.
• NOTE: To receive credit for all required/related coursework, a photocopy of transcripts is required.

 
Requested Skills - Preference may be given to applicants who can demonstrate knowledge or experience in the following areas:

• Experience with R and / or other statistical software for environmental data processing and data kriging.
• Excellent overall computer skills with expanded knowledge of Excel and / or Access.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Experience working with geographic information or geo-referenced data including experience using GPS, GIS, maps, or other sources to track and communicate location information.
• Experience applying quality control information to define the quality of measurements or data.
• Skill interpreting and communicating complex technical natural resource information to a variety of audiences.
• Skill and experience writing complex technical reports that include analyses, recommendations, and conclusions about natural resource data.
• Experience reviewing, interpreting, and analyzing complex environmental data including toxic contaminants in air, land, and water.

 
To apply: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/oregon

Title: Database/GIS Specialist
Location: Logan, UT
Classification: Full Time
Salary: $44,400-$59,300

Hiring Organization:
BLM/USU National Aquatic Monitoring Center (NAMC) is a partnership between the Bureau of Land Management and Utah State University (www.usu.edu/buglab). NAMC assists the BLM and other agencies in developing and implementing ecological assessments of streams and rivers.
As a part of this partnership NAMC operates an aquatic macroinvertebrate lab, which annually processes 2000 samples. As such, NAMC houses one the largest databases of macroinvertebrate data in the country. Additionally, NAMC handles a large amount of chemical, physical and biological data from BLM ecological assessments. Both the macroinvertebrate and the ecological assessment data have geospatial components.

Responsibilities:
This position would assist with the development, use and maintenance of SQL and geodatabases to store and apply this data to inform public land management decisions. Additional duties would include building and running of python or R scripts to compute geospatial statistics, as well as to QC, edit, and manipulate data.

Required qualifications

• BS or MS in one of the following fields: Ecology, GIS, Computer Science, or Databases.
• Relational databases experience (3-5 years).
• Experience working with large datasets; data storage and manipulation(3-5 years).
• Experience coding in at least one of the three following languages: R, python, or SQL (3-5 years).
• Ability to create and maintain geodatabases.
• ArcGIS experience (3-5 years).
• Excellent organizational and file management skills.
• Experience communicating technical tools to end users and creating detailed documentation of these tools.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills and ability to workindependently.

Preferred qualifications

• MS in one of the fields listed above.
• Background working with ecological data, especially aquatic data.
• Three to five years of coding in all three of the following languages: R, python, and SQL (particularly, ability to create transactional commands).

To apply go to http://usu.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobID=2691&job=database-gis-specialist .
Application review beings Sept 15th, open until filled.

Application questions should be directed to Scott Miller
(scott.miller@usu.edu).

The City of Hood River has a GIS Analyst position open.  They are advertising now and will be conducting a first review of applications on 9/8. Attached is the job description and application. 

Job Description
Application doc

Purpose of the Position
​The GIS Analyst is responsible for providing operational, technical, and administrative support for the City's Geography Information System Program.

Scope
Reporting to the Director of Public Works, the GIS Analyst will oversee the City's GIS Program and provide support to all the City's major departments; administation, planning, public works/engineering, fire & police.

​The GIS Analyst is responsible for updating and maintaining the GIS database and user interface as the City develops and the need for geospatial information increases.  The GIS analyst monitors the GIS servers and other hardware to identify needed maintenance and upgrades, will perform presentation, modeling, data analysis, and spatial analysis tasks in support of City projects.

The Port of Portland is hiring a GIS analyst (closes 9/4).  

https://www.governmentjobs.com/jobs/1829770/gis-analyst-ii-or-iii/agency/portofportland