Location: London (hybrid - 2 days per week in the office)
Reporting to: OSINT Lead
Role Type: Permanent
Salary: £38,000 to £42,000 per annum depending on experience
About Tech Against Terrorism
Tech Against Terrorism aims to save lives and prevent harm by disrupting terrorist activity online and upholding human rights. We use open-source intelligence investigation, sophisticated technical tooling, and an established capacity-building apparatus for tech platforms to tackle terrorist activity online and counter the exploitation of digital spaces by terrorist and violent extremist (TVE) actors.
We work closely with the United Nations, tech platforms, democratic governments, and civil society. We are seeking to scale our efforts to monitor and disrupt TVE exploitation of online spaces by expanding our established team of OSINT Analysts in hiring another analyst in the UK.
Our flagship technical product is the Terrorist Content Analytics Platform (TCAP), an alerting system to report and record terrorist or violent extremist content found online. To date, the TCAP has alerted more than 130 tech platforms to over 30,000 pieces of terrorist material on their servers. As of 2024, the TCAP also operates an archive of terrorist content to permit researchers to access terrorist material in a secure and safe location, and provide a hash-sharing capability to assist platforms in content moderation.
Please note we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have full right to work in the UK in order to be considered. Candidates will be expected to undertake and pass a police check and additional checks for security clearance at an SC level, which typically requires a minimum of five years' continuous UK residency immediately prior to application.
We are particularly interested in hearing from you if you have a professional background in:
- Developing and implementing OSINT tooling and technical solutions to problems relating to online harms
- Product management and development
- Data analysis - from collection to visualisation in order to extract actionable insights
The Role
As an OSINT Analyst at Tech Against Terrorism, you will play an integral part in our proactive efforts to save lives by disrupting TVE activity online. Our investigations are leveraged by the global tech industry, national governments, and supranational organisations to maximise their understanding of how TVE actors use the internet and how to counter it.
Responsibilities include:
- Monitor, investigate and analyse emerging TVE activity online through open-source intelligence work, following our OpSec and incident response procedures and using your expertise in best-practice OSINT approaches and tooling
- Respond in real time to ongoing and emerging terrorist incidents with an online component and alert them to tech platforms and relevant national authorities
- Produce short-and-long-form analytical reports based on our findings, including using data from the Terrorist Content Analytics Platform (TCAP)
- Lead on strategic projects and initiatives to disrupt terrorist and violent extremist use of the internet and provide capacity building support to tech platforms and governmental actors
- Collaborate on projects as part of our cross-functional team of OSINT, research and policy analysts, developers and engineers, and communications team
- Contribute to TAT's outreach and fundraising efforts by putting forward proposals for strategic work and advocating for partnerships with our broad network of stakeholders
- Liaise with and provide support to a variety of relevant stakeholders, including tech platforms, regulators, governmental agencies and intergovernmental organisations
- Represent TAT's work at high level conferences, and influential strategic stakeholder engagements online and offline
- Actively contribute to the further development of Tech Against Terrorism's innovative technical approaches to online counter terrorism work and strategic priorities in response to the emerging and changing threat picture, as well as actively developing our OSINT capabilities
Requirements
- At least 1-2 years of experience in open-source intelligence (OSINT) work in the public or private sector
- Thorough knowledge of OSINT tools, investigative techniques, and other related methodologies
- Professional experience in dealing with graphic, violent, or upsetting content
- Excellent intelligence writing skills and proven experience in analysing complex findings
- Demonstrable use of intelligence and analytical techniques such as the Probability Yardstick, BLUF methodology, Risk Matrices, and Analysis of Competing Hypothesis (ACH)
- Demonstrated knowledge around TVE use of technology and the internet, and/or digital exploitation by hostile actors, including other online harms
- Passion for and commitment to Tech Against Terrorism's mission to save lives by disrupting TVE use of the internet and upholding human rights
- Right to work in the UK and ability to work from our office in central London 2-3 times a week
- Willingness to travel occasionally, including internationally
- Willingness to work flexibly as part of an international team based in the UK and as part of an on-call rota, including at weekends and public holidays
- Experience in working with incident response protocols
- Project and/or product management experience
- Knowledge of broader OSINT landscape, including platforms and products
- Undergraduate or master's degree in relevant subject (Security, War Studies, Intelligence, etc.)
- Problem solving and adaptability: You are solution oriented and innovative in how you approach challenges. You have a flexible attitude and a high degree of personal accountability
- Organisation, time management, and attention to detail: You are well organised and can work on multiple projects simultaneously to a very high quality, prioritising effectively
- Strong team player: You thrive on working as part of a close-knit team. You proactively seek solutions to problems in a constructive and collaborative manner and apply your skills and expertise where and when needed.
- Ownership and proactiveness: You proactively take ownership of projects and work-streams, resolve blockers proactively and successfully drive projects through to completion
- Analytical and innovative mindset: you identify gaps in existing processes and suggest improvements by regularly bringing new ideas
- Communication: you have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and you communicate effectively and diplomatically with both colleagues and external stakeholders.
- Sound judgement and diligence: You can make decisions with sound judgement, especially in stressful situations and under pressure, remaining calm and collected.
- Resilience: You are aware of your own wellbeing in the context of work and can respond to challenges with appropriate mitigation strategies
What we offer
A friendly and supportive culture with all the benefits of working with public and private sector stakeholders whilst advancing the goals of an NGO.
- A £6,000 annual training budget to help you build your skills and career
- One month a year working from abroad
- Top-tier private healthcare with Vitality
- Numerous perks, discounts and rewards with our travel, fitness & wellbeing partners
- Fully funded therapy sessions
- 25 days' holiday plus UK bank holidays, with an extra 5 days a year for taking part in the on-call rota
- Regular team events, in person and virtual
- Cycle to work scheme
Please note that this role involves exposure to graphic, violent and/or otherwise distressing content. Tech Against Terrorism has Operational Security and Dury of Care policies in place to mitigate against the effects of this work and provides professional, trauma specific support and training to its staff. Previous experience in working with disturbing material and its impact is essential for this role.
Tech Against Terrorism actively fosters an inclusive and diverse work environment where all individuals are valued and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives and talents. We strongly encourage candidates from all backgrounds, including those from underrepresented groups, to apply for this position. We acknowledge that some applicants might not meet every requirement set out in this role description. If you believe you are the right person for the job to make a meaningful impact as an OSINT analyst with us, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Please note that these three items are essential requirements for the role:
- Right to work in UK
- Willingness to work as part of an on-call rota (including weekends and public holidays)
- Previous experience with graphic content is essential for the role.
Applications that do not evidence these three criteria will be rejected without further consideration.
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