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Ascension LLC is seeking a detail-oriented, mission-driven GIS Analyst / ArcGIS Specialist to support data analytics and application support services for a federal Office of Inspector General analytics team. This role will help transform location-based data into defensible, actionable insights that support audits, evaluations, investigations, and oversight activities.

The ideal candidate brings strong geospatial analysis, ArcGIS, spatial data management, mapping, and visualization skills, along with the ability to explain technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. This position is important to the customer’s broader mission because geospatial analysis will help identify spatial relationships, geographic patterns, proximity risks, regional trends, and location-based anomalies that may inform oversight priorities and operational decision-making.

Summary of Contractor Role

The GIS Analyst / ArcGIS Specialist will provide geospatial analytics services involving location-based information, including spatial data analysis, map development, visualization, location intelligence, proximity analysis, and integration of geographic data with other data sources. The role will support the customer’s need to surface patterns, trends, and anomalies across complex data environments and communicate findings in a clear, accurate, objective, and accessible manner.

The successful candidate should be self-driven, organized, technically precise, and comfortable working in an environment where requirements may evolve through iterative development cycles. The candidate must be able to select appropriate geospatial techniques, validate source data, document data provenance and limitations, and produce geospatial analysis plans, reports, and visual products that meet OIG standards. The PWS requires geospatial analyses to be well-documented, clearly interpreted, accepted by Government stakeholders, and capable of supporting valid conclusions.

Anticipated Day-to-Day Activities

• Analyze spatial relationships, geographic trends, location-based patterns, and anomalies to support federal oversight activities.
• Develop maps, spatial visualizations, and geospatial products using ArcGIS, ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, or comparable GIS tools.
• Integrate geographic data with operational, programmatic, investigative, financial, or other structured and unstructured datasets.
• Perform proximity analysis, location intelligence, hotspot analysis, spatial joins, geocoding, routing, clustering, and other GIS techniques as appropriate.
• Validate geospatial data for accuracy, completeness, consistency, source reliability, and fitness for use.
• Document geospatial methodologies, assumptions, data sources, data provenance, limitations, and analytical interpretations.
• Prepare geospatial analysis plans, reports, maps, and briefings for technical teams, program stakeholders, and leadership audiences.
• Collaborate with data scientists, BI analysts, data engineers, project managers, and customer stakeholders to align geospatial products with mission needs.
• Support dashboard and visualization integration where geospatial outputs are incorporated into Power BI, Tableau, ArcGIS Dashboards, or other reporting environments.
• Maintain organized project documentation in designated repositories such as SharePoint or other Government-approved systems.
• Participate in project planning, requirements discussions, status meetings, peer reviews, and knowledge transfer sessions.
• Ensure work products comply with federal data privacy, security, accessibility, quality, and documentation standards.
• Recommend improvements to geospatial workflows, data refresh processes, visualization standards, and reusable GIS templates.