Emergent Risk International (ERI) is seeking to hire a full-time Protective Intelligence Analyst to be embedded on an annual contract with one of our multinational clients. Successful candidates will have an analytical and data-driven mindset, desire to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with a focus on protective intelligence analysis and investigations involving threats to the client company’s executive personnel, workforce at large, and corporate events.
The preferred chosen candidate will work onsite at the client’s office in Sunnyvale, CA. ERI has been granted the alternative option to staff this position remotely. Superior qualified candidates resident within the US Pacific Time Zone will also be considered on a case-by-case basis.
About US: ERI is a global risk and security intelligence advisory firm headquartered in Newport, Rhode Island with offices in Austin, Washington DC, Greater Boston, the United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Mexico, Portugal, and Singapore. We support global security, risk management, business continuity and other risk-focused departments of Fortune 500 companies and multi-national organizations. We help our clients assess risk to their organizations; whether that risk emanates from geopolitics, security threats, economic forces or regulatory initiatives that may impact bottom-line revenue or threaten personnel and company assets.
ERI operates five lines of business:
● Assessment and Analysis: We provide our clients daily, subscription-based and bespoke geopolitical and threat intelligence services.
● Training: We train intelligence analysts to serve effectively in corporate environments. Our training focuses on tradecraft and tools that drive more efficient and effective analysis. We offer a range of in-house and open training courses to address specific levels of experience and need.
● Online Platform: We offer a subscription-based online portal that provides a workspace environment for security intelligence analysts, combining ERI’s expert analysis with hundreds of curated datasets and our suite of data visualization tools.
● Consulting: We help companies develop and improve their intelligence programs, providing end-to-end support; from assessing needs and providing analysis to recruiting and hiring highly qualified candidates.
● Embedded Analyst Services: We support our clients with embedded analysts, full- and part-time, short- and long-term. Our embedded analysts work directly for our clients, allowing them the benefit of employing intelligence professionals trained to ERI’s strict standards of competency and continually professionally developed by ERI’s senior leadership, armed with access to ERI’s proprietary tools and deep backbench of in-house subject matter experts.
The Position:
The Protective Intelligence Analyst will be part of a three-person protective intelligence team that will be responsible for creating a range of intelligence products and support investigations that involved both insider and external threats to the company and its people. The ideal candidate will have experience in due diligence, intelligence, geopolitical risk and corporate threat investigations.
The analyst will be trained on ERI-specific analytic tradecraft, writing and analysis as part of the role. Language skills beyond English and business knowledge would be a significant advantage.
Primary Responsibilities:
· Develop an expert understanding of the client’s business model and asset locations, ensuring that all intelligence and reporting is tailored to the client’s specific needs.
· Conduct insider or external threat investigations including interviews, dark web and social media research, criminal databases and other resources and tools.
· Research entities that may be engaged in fraudulent or unlawful conduct directed at the company or utilizing the company’s platform.
· Utilize open source, vendor tools, and social media to provide forward-looking analysis on geopolitical and private sector intelligence issues with potential impact to client’s personnel, assets, operations and reputation.
· Understand, interrogate, and visualize high-quality data to draw analytic conclusions, identify trends and add additional context to analysis and reporting.
· Build and maintain awareness of the broader context and implications of the various types of risk affecting the business (e.g., financial, legal, reputation, etc.) while also tracking trends and signals of potential short- and long-term concern.
· Provide a customer-service oriented approach for the client and department, which may include availability to support incidents outside of normal working hours.
· Actively foster internal and external relationships to facilitate better information flow and understanding of the needs of the business including working with sector-specific information sharing groups, private-public partnerships, and company employees.
Minimum Qualifications:
· Bachelor's degree in intelligence, international business, journalism, law enforcement investigations or related field.
· Minimum five plus years of experience in intelligence and investigations, whether having served in the private or public sector, with a demonstrated track record of steadily expanded responsibilities.
· Excellent writing and editing skills, demonstrable ability to write concise reports suitable for a corporate executive audience.
· OSINT experience conducting research and intelligence investigations utilizing various tools including social media.
· Experience conducting behavioral threat assessments.
· Familiarity and experience conducting external threat investigations including research, identity verification, background and related investigatory research.
· Strong problem-solving skills, exceptionally organized, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple assignments simultaneously.
· Strong attention to detail, solid interpersonal and organizational skills.
· Excellent critical thinking skills that bolster both analytic work and suitability for serving in a lead client-facing role.
· Able to meet analytic deadlines and quick-thinking and responsiveness during crisis events.
· Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality of sensitive data and information.
· Superior research/OSINT skills.
· A strong commitment to ethical private sector intelligence practices and ability to maintain confidentiality around security specific information.
· Must be able to work flexible schedule as required.
· Experience with Structured Professional Judgement tools like WAVR-21 and RAGE-V as well as tools like Ontic, Silo, Smartsheets, Google Docs, Microsoft Office, CPIR and other behavioral analysis tools.
· Member of ATAP; holding or hoping to attain a CTM certification and other relevant certifications.
· Ability to run pre-coded SQL queries.
· Must be able to pass a pre-employment drug screening, if/as permitted by local law.
Working Hours: Role is a standard, salaried business hours position. As with any role in the security field, some after-hours or weekend work may be required in moments of crisis.
Remuneration: This role will be a full-time (40 hours per week) salaried position. Pay will be commensurate with experience.
Application Deadline is July 19, 2024.
Please send your resume, cover letter, and a recent writing sample to: eriteam(at)emergentriskinternational.com
Due to the high volume of applications, we are unable to respond to every application and will be in contact with selected candidates only.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. To be considered for the position, all applicants must be legal residents of the United States and must independently possess eligibility to work in the country.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $80,000.00 - $95,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person