Job Details :
Job Title : Research Analyst II
Location : Washington DC
Duration : 12 Months Contract
Required Qualifications :
- Experience conducting open-source research
- Experience with digital investigations, analytical tooling
- Experience with data-driven querying tools such as SQL and Python
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to draw conclusions from data
- Familiarity with geopolitical issues and political analysis
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and as a team player
Preferred Qualifications :
- Familiarity with covert and overt influence operations
- Experience conducting commercial due diligence
- Ability to use Lexis Nexis or other similar research tools
- Familiarity with network analysis
- Experience in producing and delivering threat intelligence
Services :
- Intake of publisher names for state-controlled media from policy and news partnerships and identify on platform presence using opens source methods, on platform tooling and fanouts, SQL queries, notebook development
- Audit existing state-controlled media publishers and pages for missing subsidiaries, covert, linked entities
- Research on the activities of labelled state-controlled media publishers, using internal analytical tools and data fields to study if they have covert networks connected to them
- Research on media publishes that exhibit borderline affiliation to state organs to determine the nature and depth of the association
- Research on overt influence activities of nation-state actors more generally
- Work with policy and product on additional enforcement options, intelligence products, and product levers for overt influence actors
- Research and triage of commercial entities possibly engaged in violating activities on-platform
- Engage internal investigative partners to obtain requirements and share information
- Assist in the development of tools and research methods to improve efficiency of processes
Top 3 must-have HARD skills :
Open-sourced research experience
Familiarity with geopolitical and political analysis
Ability to draw conclusions from data
Good to have skills :
Experience with data driven query like SQL and Python
Familiarity with covert and overt influence operations
Experience in producing and delivering threat intelligence
Recruiter Details :
Name : Abhay Srivastava
Email : [email protected]
Internal ID : # 24-22628
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