Program Officer (Geospatial Analyst)

Job Description

Description of Organization: This position is located in the Analysis, Data, and Learning Division of USAID’s Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security (REFS). REFS’s mission is to partner to advance inclusive agriculture-led growth, resilience, nutrition, and access to water and sanitation to accelerate and protect global food security. The Analysis, Data, and Learning Division leads Bureau efforts to measure impact, develop innovative methods and metrics, assess how a changing world will impact REFS programming, and promote a culture of evidence based decision making.

Duties and Responsibilities: The Geospatial Analyst will develop geospatial approaches, analyses, and tools to track resilience and food security program areas at the country, regional, and community levels to reveal trends and magnitude of change or lack thereof for key variables. For selected target zones within Feed the Future focus countries, the incumbent will comprehensively track key biophysical and socioeconomic indicators using combinations of GIS, traditional ground truth/crowd sourced data, and remote sensing, and other appropriate methods to advance routine use of this approach for strategic planning, program design and M&E. The incumbent will facilitate discussion among key offices supporting REFS portfolios to realize a vision and plan for integrating geospatial information and analyses into strategic planning, design, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and learning.

The Geospatial Analyst:

• Assists REFS subject matter experts with spatial analytical thinking for improved planning, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of programs.

• Develops and delivers geographic visualization products showing program related data such as budget information, project activity locations, etc.

• Acquires, validates, maintains and manages a database of geospatial data, including retrieval of historic orphan geospatial data previously funded by USAID.

• Implements REFS and USAID geospatial standards regarding data collection and cartographic production.

• Designs and develops web-based visualization products for food security, nutrition and resilience results, and prepares database-driven, on-line maps of resilience and food security activities and budget information and provides automation for the update of these products.

• Performs other duties as assigned.

Specialized Experience: For the FL-03 (GS-13 equivalent) grade level, you must have one year of specialized experience at the FL-04 (GS-12) grade level or equivalent. Specialized experience is defined as:

• Demonstrated expertise in using geographic information system software such as ArcGIS, QGiS or similar platforms for spatial data analysis, mapping and visualization; experience in managing, manipulating, and analyzing large spatial datasets, including data collection, data cleaning, and spatial data management; and
• Experience creating high-quality maps and spatial visualizations that effectively communicate analytical results, incorporating principles of cartographic design and map layout.

Education Requirement:

• At the FSL-03 level, at least a graduate degree is required.

Conditions of Employment:

• Must be a U.S. citizen. Candidates must indicate citizenship on their application. If citizenship is not stated, the application will not be considered; and
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret-level security clearance.

Interested candidates must submit the following:

• A cover letter expressing interest and clearly addressing the stated requirements for the position; and
• A resume/CV that must include the month, year, and the number of hours worked per week for each position listed.

Other Applicable Documents:

• An applicant claiming Veterans’ Preference must submit all appropriate documentation (DD-214, Service Disability Letter, Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty, etc.); and
• An applicant serving as a current/former political appointee must submit all appropriate documentation (SF-50s, appointment letter, etc.).

Please submit your application package to REFSJobs@usaid.gov. Applicants must use the subject line “REFS_5, FSL APPLICATION PACKAGE: Program Officer (Geospatial Analyst), FSL-03, PD# 31652.” Application submissions are required by 11:59 p.m. ET, September 27, 2024. Packages not submitted by the deadline with the specified subject line—or incomplete packages—will not receive consideration.