JOB TITLE (oh, but it is so much more!) CROP ASSESSMENT ANALYST Department: Department Of Agriculture Agency: Foreign Agricultural Service Job Announcement Number: UF140606SHC
TOPICS: agronomy, field crop agriculture, models, agro-meteorology, GIS, Remote Sensing, satellite imagery, data management, Global Monitoring, World Food Security, International Travel MAJOR DUTIES: This position is located in: Office of Global Affairs, Impact Analysis Division, International Production Assessment Branch. The incumbent analyzes digital satellite, meteorological, and economic data in assessing crop production of multiple crops in domestic and/or foreign areas. Identifies and defines problems of major importance such as foreign meteorological, political, social, economic, or agronomic changes and trends which may affect the world production outlook and be of concern to the U.S. Government, trade groups, and farm organizations. Generates scheduled and unscheduled crop reports. Assists in developing and testing methods for utilizing supplementary data in assessing crop conditions. BASIC ELIGIBILITY: You must be a United States citizen to apply. Status applicants must meet time-in-grade restrictions by the closing date of this announcement. QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: see official site. http://www.usajobs.gov/ and search for UF140606SHC VACANCY IDENTIFICATION NUMBER: UF140606SHC CLOSING DATE: June 11, 2007 POSITION SERIES AND GRADE: GS - 1101 - 09 / 13 PROMOTION POTENTIAL: 13 SALARY: $ 46,041.00 - 103,220.00 USD per year LOCATION OF POSITION: WASHINGTON METRO AREA, DC For questions about this job: Sheila H. Campbell Phone: (202)401-0145 TDD: 202-205-9057 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************** An Unofficial Description of the Position: An interesting semi-analytical/technical position is currently available with the Foreign Agricultural Service working as an international and domestic agriculture commodity forecaster. The position is responsible for monitoring agricultural areas of the world, performing analysis, and presenting current season production forecasts and condition reports. Tools and data used in the position include satellite imagery data (mostly MODIS, SPOT, and some AVHRR, Landsat TM), normalized vegetation indexes, agro-meteorological crop models for hazard, winter kill, growth stage, etc. We use ESRI GIS ArcMap software, and in-house tools for extraction and display of extensive meteorology data. Not only that but we publish reports on the web, provide interesting briefings, work hard to design graphical representation of numeric data and concepts related to agriculture monitoring on national scale. The really good analysts design s/w, create new spreadsheet tools, GIS custom tools, statistical analyze weather station data, climate data, historical agricultural production data. Regularly read international news assessing validity and impact of information contained in agricultural and weather related stories. Stay in contact with overseas office. The main crops of concern are soybeans, canola, wheat, barley, corn, cotton, peanuts, and sorghum of the worlds major export/import countries. Overall it is a very cool job. ************************************************ ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED IS LOCATED: http://www.usajobs.gov/ and search for UF140606SHC
