GIS Fellow – State, Tribal, Local, Plans & Grants Division w/ National Park Service (Remote)

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Summary:
American Conservation Experience, a nonprofit Conservation Corps, in partnership with the National Park Service (NPS), is seeking 1 Fellow to assist in providing technical support for the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund (HPS) grants programs, and management of cultural resources geospatial data, alongside NPS Staff.

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Start Date: November 2025

Estimated End Date: November 2026
*a 52-week minimum commitment is required*

Location Details/Description: The State, Tribal, Local, Plans & Grants division is located in Washington, DC; however, this position may be completely remote. The Fellow may elect to work in the STLPG office full-time, part-time, or fully remote with the approval of the assigned supervisor.
For more information about the State, Tribal, Local, Plans & Grants Division, please visit their National Park Service website.

Position Overview:
The Fellow will support the work of the State, Tribal, Local, Plans & Grants Division through the development and administration of geospatial programs and creation of products and tools related to the division's grant and technical assistance programs. This position involves working on multiple projects simultaneously, responding to program geospatial needs, and ensuring compliance with geospatial data standards. The fellow will be expected to follow existing standard operating procedures (SOPs), but may also propose workflows and processes for analyzing and gathering existing data to create visual representations of the division's grant programs and other work suitable for use on the web or print collateral materials. The Fellow will be expected to work with other NPS and Department of the Interior (DOI) GIS professionals to understand and apply all relevant policies. Projects will typically entail a variety of assigned activities, such as information compilation, retrieval, and organization, data entry, and maintenance of information management systems. The GIS Fellow will have opportunities to develop skills to establish and maintain effective working relationships with a variety of individuals and groups within the Federal Government, as well as with external partners.

Duties:

• Maintain and implement existing and future GIS information management systems (including Esri GIS products) to support the mission of the Division, by performing regularly scheduled updates to ArcGIS Online StoryMaps, Web Applications, and Web Maps following established SOPs.
• Provide knowledge and support in an existing ESRI web-based survey tool (CRSurveyor) for architecture and archaeology field surveys that are operated via ArcGIS Field Maps, and assist partners in deployment, setup, customization, updates, and resources for existing modules in CRSurveyor, as needed.
• Apply division-specific geospatial data standards to the geospatial products for each of the division's grant programs.
• Provide detailed information for easier compiling, summarizing, analyzing, or reporting, including geospatial data.
• Disseminate information to the appropriate personnel and perform duties in compliance with applicable guidelines and SOPs, while maintaining and updating the GIS Fellow procedures guide as necessary.

This individual placement is meant to facilitate professional development and promote exposure to land management agencies and networking with professionals. This could include gaining experience in different conservation fields and shadowing different work groups.

Schedule: Monday to Friday; full-time, flexible hours and schedule depending on the candidate's needs.