# Embedded Security Intelligence Analyst

**Company**: Control Risks
**Location**: London, England
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Control Risks are hiring an Embedded Security Intelligence Analyst to join our team supporting a major tech client, to help collect, curate, and disseminate current and forecasted risk intelligence in a timely manner to partners and stakeholders.

Analysts provide strategic foresight and analysis on security and operational concerns that may pose a safety risk to the client, its employees, or community.

**Role Purpose** Analysts are core producers in SRA’s intelligence function.

- Quickly exhibit a good understanding of the client processes.

- Display confidence to act in line with existing processes and operating procedures.

- In the absence of clear pathways, act with integrity and prioritize “doing the right thing” with the information available.

- Analysts own day‑to‑day monitoring and first‑line analysis for defined markets/themes/events and are the primary authors of routine regional products in their portfolio.

**Scope**

- Continue to develop regional or thematic subject matter expertise.

- Are expected to provide nuanced analysis with some oversight.

- Own:

- Regional‑specific products, and

- Contribute to global thematic reports

- Support large team projects (e.g., Olympics, Periscope) by:

- Completing individual tasks,

- Sometimes supporting scope development, assignments, and editing.

- May be tasked with unique or ad hoc individual projects, and at times larger projects as part of professional development.

**Regional expertise scope**

- Owns day‑to‑day monitoring and first‑line analysis for assigned countries/cities in their region.

- Is the primary author of routine regional products (alerts, short assessments, situation updates) for those markets.

- Contributes to larger regional/thematic products led by Senior Analysts or RSIMs.

**Regional expertise expectation** Analysts have operational regional subject‑matter expertise.

- Maintain up‑to‑date knowledge of political, security, crime, protest, and environmental developments in their assigned countries/cities

- Understand how these developments can practically affect client offices, employees, events, and major markets in their patch

- Can explain what is happening and immediate implications for the client and produce nuanced analysis with some oversight

- Typically focus on a smaller set of markets or issues, with depth in those areas.

**Core Responsibilities**

**Subject‑Matter Expertise & Analysis**

- Maintain a detailed, current understanding of security and political conditions in assigned markets and translate them into operationally relevant products.

- Flag when developments in their markets may have wider regional implications, escalating to Senior Analyst or RSIM.

**Research & Projects**

- Conduct research and complete defined projects with some oversight and guidance.

- Support large team projects by:

- Completing individual tasks

- Helping with scope, assignments, and editing when asked.

- May lead unique or ad hoc individual projects, and at times larger projects as development opportunities.

**Product Work**

- Product responsibilities include:

- Regional‑specific products,

- Global thematic reports,

- Supporting RSIMs or Senior Analysts in high‑profile research projects (e.g., Olympics, Periscope).

- First drafts of routine products:

- May require minor editing and some structural reformatting.

- For more ad hoc or periodic products:

- Greater leeway is expected, but Analysts must demonstrate continued improvement in analytical and written output.

**Crisis & Incident Role**

- Core analyst (streams of info, situation updates, basic implications).

**Execution, Prioritization & Peer Support**

- Analysts are accountable for completing tasks on time, as defined by RSIM.

- Expected to provide peer‑level support so others may complete tasks on time.

- Understanding production demands requires proactive intervention and will not always be directed by RSIM.

**Problem‑Solving & Process**

- Use existing procedures to solve standard problems.

- Exhibit problem‑solving skills in straightforward situations.

- Where process improvement and problem resolution are needed, be solutions‑oriented and comfortable making suggestions.

- Assess concerns in more complex challenges, collaborating on solutions.

**Requirements**

**Experience**

- A bachelor’s degree in history, political science, international relations, intelligence analysis, or a related discipline.

- 3–4 years of experience or demonstrated skills commensurate with that experience analysis function.

- Experience in collection and analytical methodologies.

- Keen understanding of social media monitoring techniques.

- Proficiency in client workspace product suite; the ability to present information in a graphic format and concise reports.

- Excellent research, analytical, writing, and verbal presentation skills.

- Ability to quickly adapt to the external environment and organisation.

- Ability to be a positive and effective team member.

- Ability to effectively manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize.

## Skills

### Required
- intelligence analysis
- social media monitoring
- analytical skills
- writing skills
- verbal presentation skills

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