Senior Intelligence Analyst, Global Disinformation Index

• 4+ years intelligence analysis / research (OSINT is desirable)
• Experience managing cross-functional teams, leadership experience; and multiple concurrent projects
• Experience working in diverse, cross-functional teams, including with data scientists, engineers, and product managers
• Established familiarity with issues related to disinformation, misinformation, propaganda, and extremism
• Advanced research and data gathering techniques and tools, including maintaining anonymized access
• Concise, effective writer and communicator in English
• Transparent, empathetic, and strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent presentation, writing, and research skills – ability to construct technical reports and communicate analysis to a wide range of audiences
• Experience interacting with and supporting customers
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, complex business, as well as willingness to learn new technologies quickly
• Experience with standard collaboration tools including G Suite and Slack
• Knowledge/willingness to learn new technologies for remote-working
• Professional fluency in English (written and spoken). Professional fluency in French and/or German (written and spoken)
• Commitment to GDI’s mission, vision, and values, including gender equity and racial justice

Desirable

• GDI is seeking applicants for an Senior Intel Analyst who specialises in open-source intelligence
• We are looking for someone who is self-motivated, detail-oriented, can successfully navigate complexity and ambiguity, make informed decisions, knows when to reference documentation and when to ask for advice, and leaves things better than they found them
• In this role, you will analyse and communicate your insights to various internal and external audiences, as well as monitor and research disinformation trends
• Maintain general but extensive presence on alt- and mainstream social media to stay apprised of and be able to perform detailed research relating to disinforming trends, specific state and non-state actors or threats, emerging and ongoing information campaigns etc
• Source raw intelligence and produce finished reports for GDI’s intelligence customers
• Maintain codebooks, lists, and training data on GDI’s growing list of adversarial narrative topics in support of the continued development of GDI’s automated data platform
• Develop relationships with intelligence partners to provide data or insights that augment GDI’s internal intelligence capabilities, either on certain platforms or in certain geographies
• Support GDI’s publicly facing advocacy and education work, including creating blog posts, research reports, etc., often in collaboration with partners
• Support knowledge sharing between the Intelligence Team and other GDI teams
• Work with data scientists, intel analysts, product managers, and client partners to formulate, research, and analyse solutions to counter online disinformation
• Compile and communicate analytical reports to internal and external audiences using open-source intelligence, statistics, visualisations, and other methodologies
• Managing staff & hiring of permanent, contract staff and interns, as needed
• Stand-in resource planning and prioritisation for the Intel team
• Provide ad hoc research support across teams where needed
• REPORTING TO: Intelligence Manager (Based in the UK)
• HOURS & TERMS: Working hours are flexible. This is a 1.0 FTE position (37.5 hours per week). As a global organisation, some flexibility for cross-time zone communication to be available for limited virtual meetings outside of office hours is required. Competitive salary benchmarked to and based on location