Specialist Analyst - 12 month FTC (Kurdish Speaker)

Overview

The exponential and ubiquitous growth of social media has led to an unprecedented diversity and severity of online harms. The speed at 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 play a key role in researching, investigating and documenting threats, trends, and vulnerabilities to disparate stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Monitor threats posed by bad actors, malicious groups and harmful behaviours, with a primary focus on VE content on the internet and social media.
• Research, investigate and document threats, trends, and vulnerabilities to disparate stakeholders.
• Write thorough, interesting and innovative intelligence reports after conducting surface, deep and dark web research.
• Locate and inform the team of leads for research and investigation; support peer review of analyst work; help design reporting documents for client outputs.
• Contribute towards daily, weekly and long-term intelligence reporting and situational awareness activities.
• Work in a challenging, time-sensitive environment on a wide variety of taskings; be able to work in a hybrid setting with travel to Leeds on a regular basis.
• Be focused and unbiased when approaching problematic content and communicate key risks, threats, trends and issues concisely.
• Understand and utilise qualitative and quantitative investigative techniques to produce succinct and actionable intelligence.

Welfare and Environment

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.

Qualifications and Skills

Skills:

• Intelligence Analysis: Expertise in intelligence gathering, particularly OSINT and social media intelligence (SOCMINT).
• Threat Identification: Ability to identify and analyze emerging threats, trends, and narratives on digital platforms.
• Report Writing: Skilled in producing clear, concise, and actionable intelligence reports.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; adept at presenting findings to stakeholders.
• Collaboration: Proven ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Language Proficiency: Fluent in English, with fluency in Kurdish (reading, writing and speaking).
• Domain Knowledge: Deep understanding of the social media threat landscape particularly around VE, hate speech, harassment, and online abuse.

• 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.

Statement

This work meets the requirements in respect of exempted questions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974; any applicants offered work for this organisation will be subject to an enhanced check from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). This will include details of cautions, reprimands or final warnings as well as convictions. A criminal record will not automatically bar a person from successfully taking up this post.

Resolver, a Kroll business, is committed to creating an inclusive work environment. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants regardless of gender, gender identity, race, religion, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, age or disability.