Geographic Specialist

The incumbent performs geographic support acitivities for decennial censuses and surveys with the U.S. Census Bureau.  Geographic activities include: improvement of the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing system, (TIGER); update of the Master Address File (MAF) for designated areas; maps for use in geographically structuring census operations and geographic correction activities.  In addition, the incumbent provides guidance, advice, and assistance to departmental geographers, statisticians, and headquarters personnel.  The incumbent will be required to establish and maintain long-term partnerships with state, tribal, and local governments regarding the exchange of paper maps, and geo-spatial data including GIS data and address files.  Incumbent will perform a variety of GIS analysis on data received from local governments to determine suitability for use in the Master Address File and the TIGER modernization program.  Applicants should have demonstrated skills in oral and written communication; demonstrated experience in manipulating raster and vector data within ESRI ArcGIS; and experience in data processing including Microsoft Access, Excel, Oracle/SQL, tabular data manipulation, and data extraction/data mining.   http://www.census.gov/roatl/www/emply.html