Senior Mandarin Toponymist

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CLEARANCE REQUIRED
: TS/SCI with willingness to take CI Poly

This job is located in: ST. Louis, MO

Hourly Salary Range: $60.00 at 2060 hours

QSL Seeks a candidate for a Senior Toponymist with Mandrin-Chinese language reading proficiency candidate to support a customer site in ST Louis, MO.

The Toponymist shall analyze and conflate information associated with feature data listed in the Geographic Names Database (GNDB) while working closely with Intelligence Community (IC) geographic names experts. Selected candidate will use agency guidance and policies to respond to questions concerning the proper and correct usage of names, various Romanization systems, and the treatment of descriptive information on standard products. These services will use the Geographic Names Processing Systems (GNPS), charts, imagery and geospatial tools to refine names information for use in all types of products and to respond to use question via the Ad Hoc Query process.

In addition, the candidate will prepare files and maps for work, accurately entering data to maintain and update the GNDB, including batching the completed work into the GNDB. The accuracy and reliability of the selected candidate's work is essential to the missions of these users.

• Selected candidate will scan and geo-reference hardcopy maps, research, and order geospatial data sources and commercial imagery to use as reference sources.
• Georeferenced maps and imagery must be conflated with the GNDB.
• Selected candidate will interpret and apply national and international policies governing the treatment of and general guidelines emanating from the US Board on Geographic Names (US BGN), the Department of State (DoS), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and other related organizations.

• Requires a BA degree and 8-12 years of prior experience or Master’s with 6-10 YOE. Additional years of experience can be considered in lieu of degree.
• For all languages, a minimum proficiency skill level 2 for Reading is required as defined by the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Proficiency Levels or the equivalent that meets or exceeds the ILR skill level 2 or be willing to pass reading language test of 2+ or higher.
• Qualified candidates should also have experience using ArcGIS or Geo Media Pro; creating shape files, geo-databases; utilizing native maps, secondary source maps, and historic maps for extraction and comparison; mapping imagery for stereo and mono extraction at various resolutions; and, expertise in research and information gathering.
• Demonstrated advanced experience with GIS software to include ArcGIS Pro and QGIS.
• Advanced understanding of and application of Geographic Names collection methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience operating successfully in a fast-paced and dynamic environment as a team-member and as an independent analyst.
• Expertise in research and information gathering.
• Knowledge of regularly used GEOINT Sources.
• Demonstrated experience with native maps, secondary source maps, historic maps used for extraction and comparison, mapping imagery for stereo and mono extraction at various resolutions.
• Demonstrated experience creating shape files, geo-databases, and features including data retrieval/storage.
• Demonstrated experience at communicating with clarity and accuracy both verbally and written.
• Active TS/SCI and willingness to obtain a POLY level clearance is REQUIRED to be considered.

• Proficiency in advanced Python Scripting.
• Regional Geographic proficiency in the geographies of the analyst’s AOR at the SME level.

Our founders, Mel Wick and Bill Cronin, retired from storied careers in the Special Operations Forces (SOF) Community. Like many Americans and military veterans, they felt a strong desire to support the nation’s response to the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in any way they could. They established QSL to do just that, Stay in the…