Senior Analyst

We are looking for a Senior Analyst to join Human Digital; our data and insights team focused on online harms. As Senior Analyst, you will play a key role in delivering research relating to online terrorism, violent extremism, and radicalisation to clients across government, law enforcement, and regulation. Reporting to and line-managed by the Research Manager, you will both conduct and write-up OSINT investigations and use your in-depth subject knowledge on terrorism and violent extremism to help the team deliver data-led evidence and produce clear, actionable reports.

The Senior Analyst will deliver a monthly report, contribute to and maintain critical datasets, and apply quantitative and qualitative research methods on ad-hoc projects covering a range of cross-harm and convergent harm types relevant to terrorism, violent extremism, and radicalisation. You will compile evidence, provide data-led analysis, and support the Research Manager in producing clear, actionable reports.

The role is ideal for someone wanting to further develop their knowledge on online terrorism, violent extremism, and radicalisation, use their OSINT skills to investigate open-source spaces, work with external specialists and academics across disciplines, develop evidence-led threat risk reporting, and manage and collate datasets. The role will require exposure to harmful content, including terrorism and violent extremism, violence fascination, and serious organised crime.

What you'll do:

• Conduct OSINT investigations into online harms.
• Manage and maintain critical datasets of multi-modal content.
• Analyse qualitative and quantitative data to produce data-led and clearly evidenced insights.
• Write clear, well-structured reports integrating quantitative data into analysis.
• Pull out the key findings most relevant to our clients and the research briefs.

What you will bring:

• Some experience in threat analyst experience.
• OSINT research experience.
• Quantitative analysis experience.
• Demonstrable knowledge of UK legislation relevant to online harms (incl. the Online Safety Act and Terrorism Act).
• Demonstrable knowledge of terrorism, violent extremism, and non-ideological violence.

What you get:

• A competitive salary and benefits package that includes 27 days holiday per year, pension contributions, private healthcare, discounted dental insurance, enhanced maternity/parental leave, plus a whole host of others.
• Cultural stimulation allowance - £250 per person per year.
• Half days off before bank holidays.
• Emergency care days for dependants.
• Up to 5 days volunteering leave per year to work for a registered charity.
• Up to 10 days special emergency leave per year.
• Season Ticket loan.
• Payroll Giving Scheme.
• Thursday drinks to unwind and socialise.
• An annual Summer and Christmas party.
• Our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion sees us offer inclusive bank holidays.
• Learning opportunities around DDI, targeted mentoring programmes and the opportunity to participate in several active Employee Led Networks and associated events.
• This role will be supported with all the necessary personal development required to set someone up for success.

M+C Saatchi Group has pledged its commitment to create a company that values difference, with an inclusive culture. As part of this M+C Saatchi Group continues to be an Equal Opportunity Employer which does not and shall not discriminate, celebrates diversity and bases all hiring and promotion decisions solely on merit, without regard for any personal characteristics.

If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please make us aware as part of your application.

We are part of the M+C Saatchi Group and provide services to clients globally.