Specialist Analyst - 12 month FTC (Kurdish Speaker) in Leeds

The exponential and ubiquitous growth of social media has led to an unprecedented diversity and severity of online harms. The speed in which digital technologies, media applications and social networking features evolve makes maintaining global situational awareness increasingly challenging. A Specialist Analyst within the Human Delivery team will be responsible for monitoring the threat posed by bad actors, malicious groups and harmful behaviours.

While the role is primarily focused on understanding and monitoring VE content on the internet and social media, it will also require a willingness to work on associated risk areas, including but not limited to risks such as suicide and self-harm, hate speech and harassment, and child endangerment. The Specialist Analyst will research, investigate and document threats, trends, and vulnerabilities to disparate stakeholders.

The successful candidate will have a good understanding of threats and how they manifest online and be able to work in a challenging, time-sensitive environment on a wide variety of taskings. They will write thorough, interesting and innovative intelligence reports through conducting surface, deep and dark web research. The candidate will help locate and inform the team of leads for research and investigation, support peer review of analyst work, and help design reporting documents for client outputs.

Welfare at Resolver is taken with the utmost sincerity; however, as this role deals with a variety of physical and digital threat landscapes, the candidate may occasionally be exposed to distressing content. A successful analyst must be focused and unbiased when approaching problematic content and able to communicate the key risks, threats, trends and issues in a concise manner. This job requires the use of a variety of qualitative and quantitative investigative research techniques to produce succinct and actionable intelligence. The candidate will contribute towards daily, weekly and long-term intelligence reporting and situational awareness activities. The job is hybrid with travel to Leeds on a regular basis.

• Monitor threats posed by bad actors, malicious groups and harmful behaviours, focusing on VE content on the internet and social media.
• Research, investigate and document threats, trends and vulnerabilities for disparate stakeholders.
• Produce thorough, clear, and actionable intelligence reports from surface, deep and dark web research.
• Identify leads for research and investigation and inform the team accordingly.
• Support peer review of analyst work and help design reporting documents for client outputs.
• Communicate key risks, threats, trends and issues concisely to stakeholders in a time-sensitive environment.
• Contribute to daily, weekly and long-term intelligence reporting and situational awareness activities.
• Work in a hybrid role with travel to Leeds on a regular basis.

Qualifications:

• Experience in a security, policy, or tech environment.
• Familiarity with digital investigation and threat monitoring tools.
• Experience with producing regionally focused reports.
• Adaptability: Ability to quickly adapt to evolving digital trends.
• Skills in Intelligence Analysis (OSINT and SOCMINT), Threat Identification, Report Writing, Communication, Collaboration, Language Proficiency (English; Kurdish reading, writing and speaking).
• Domain Knowledge: Deep understanding of the social media threat landscape, particularly around VE, hate speech, harassment, and online abuse.