CIA Cartographer

Work Schedule: Full Time
Salary: $50,703 - $72,421
Location: Washington, DC metropolitan area

This is developmental-level work in the multi-level Cartographer occupational specialty located in the Directorate of Intelligence. This position is responsible for researching, designing, and digitally producing routine to moderately complex thematic and reference maps in support of Agency customer requirements for finished intelligence, presentations, publications, and/or interactive Web sites. Based upon assignment this position may work on one of the following Regional accounts: Africa, Eurasia, Western Hemisphere, Europe, Middle East or South Asia-Oceania.

Candidates work as part of a cartographic team or an interdisciplinary team managing multiple mapping projects under minimal supervision. Duties include working with customers to define project requirements; advising customers on cartographic formats and production processes; planning and managing routine to moderately complex map projects; assisting in addressing team technical or procedural issues; designing, producing and reviewing cartographic products. At this level, incumbents maintain sufficient regional expertise to provide substantive input into the final map product, including geographic features, Board on Geographic Names (BGN) rulings, key issues, and recent developments.

Minimum Requirements include a MA, MS, BA or BS in cartography, geography, geospatial information systems, or similarly related discipline, with an emphasis in thematic cartography. Applicants should have at least one year related work experience and will be required to provide a portfolio demonstrating cartographic expertise (five or more samples of his/her best work).

Competitive candidates should have knowledge of cartographic design principles including color and symbology theory, map projections, thematic and statistical mapping, topographic and reference mapping, display hierarchies, typography, and data generation. Other requirements include knowledge of GIS principles including data types; data layers; basic geographic, analytic, and statistical functions; map projections; geographic coordinate systems; and data formatting. Candidates must have the ability to collect, analyze, and integrate geographic and substantive data into an effectively designed cartographic product. Additionally, candidates should be able to demonstrate skills in the use of or be rapidly gaining expertise with the software, hardware, and platforms necessary for cartographic, graphic, and web production, such as some of the following: Microsoft Office, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Avenza MAPublisher, ESRI ArcView GIS, ESRI ArcGIS, and Intergraph GeoMedia Pro.