Job Details
Foxhound Federal is seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented cartography professional with a passion for conveying complex information through maps to support our highly technical client. The candidate will contribute to every facet of production in impactful cartographic projects aiding national intelligence.
Description:
The Cartographer will play a crucial role in creating professional and visually compelling intelligence cartographic products that effectively convey complex subject matters to a diverse range of audiences. Responsible for managing intricate and demanding cartographic projects, collaborating closely with customers to understand their needs, and facilitating design conceptualization and brainstorming sessions. Responsible for identifying and clarifying customer expectations, developing production timelines, planning and coordinating all aspects of cartographic product development, conducting research, and designing maps that meet the highest quality standards.
Responsibilities:
- The Cartographer will create professional finished intelligence cartographic products to convey complex subject matters to diverse audiences.
- Manage complex and demanding cartographic projects; communicate directly with customers; facilitate design conceptualization and brainstorming sessions.
- Identify and clarify customer expectations for content and style; develop production timelines; plan, coordinate, research, design, and develop cartographic products.
- Ensure quality control and map usability, delivery and archival of final products to include conformity to production standards and compliance with processes and procedures, including copyright laws, internal workflow procedures, and established production standards.
Basic Qualifications:
- Requires BA/BS and 3+ years of experience or no degree and 9+ years of experience
- TS/SCI with Poly level clearance is required
- Experience applying cartographic design principles, including color and theory, map projections, thematic and statistical mapping, topographic and reference mapping, display hierarchies, topography, and data generation.
- Proficiency in tools like Illustrator is required.
- Experience using cartographic data visualization techniques required.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience with map-related Java Script libraries is desired.
- Familiarity with Esri's ArcMap, Avenza's Map publisher, QGIS, and Adobe Creative Suite is desired.
Foxhound Federal, LLC is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Foxhound Federal is committed to administering all employment and personnel actions on the basis of merit and free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or status as an individual with a disability. Consistent with this commitment, we are dedicated to the employment and advancement of qualified minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, protected veterans, persons of all ethnic backgrounds and religions according to their abilities.
About Foxhound FederalFoxhound Federal is a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business specializing in helping federal agencies and consulting organizations acquire high-caliber candidates for business development, internal operations and program delivery. Our past performance and reasonable pricing are your guarantee that we will deliver the high-caliber candidates our clients need to meet any and all contractual obligations.