Cartography and GIS Specialist

The Wilderness Society is seeking a Cartography and GIS Specialist to create high-quality maps and geospatial products that support wilderness conservation and public lands advocacy. This position combines cartographic design expertise with GIS analysis skills to produce compelling visual communications for policy briefs, publications, and digital media. Key responsibilities include designing and producing publication-quality maps of public lands, wilderness areas, and conservation landscapes, performing spatial analysis of land use change, habitat connectivity, and conservation priorities, developing interactive web mapping applications for public engagement, maintaining geospatial databases of federal public lands, wilderness study areas, and conservation easements, analyzing proposed legislation and administrative actions for spatial impacts on public lands, creating data visualizations and infographics for advocacy campaigns, collaborating with policy teams on spatial analysis for congressional testimony, and managing cartographic standards and templates for organizational communications. Requirements include a bachelor's degree in cartography, geography, GIS, or related field, plus 3+ years of professional cartographic and GIS experience. Expert proficiency in ArcGIS Pro, Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, InDesign), and web mapping platforms required. Strong visual design sense and knowledge of cartographic principles essential. Experience with public lands policy and conservation preferred. Located in Washington, DC with flexible remote options.