A European foreign affairs institution implements the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy. Within this institution, there is a specialized EU intelligence service that provides in-depth analysis to decision-makers. This service works with a military counterpart to deliver joint civilian and military intelligence assessments.
The support division for open-source research provides open-source intelligence by monitoring, collecting, and assessing information, political and diplomatic reporting, using advanced research and analytical tools.
What you do
- Collect, research, monitor, and analyze open-source information, including from social media, as well as political and diplomatic reporting.
- Analyze open sources and draft open-source intelligence reports to provide input to intelligence-based reports.
- Support the work of dedicated internal task forces and a joint analysis capacity.
- Monitor the political, economic, military, and/or humanitarian situation in selected countries/regions.
- Produce open-source information research in support of internal customers within the joint analysis capacity.
- Work in close association with intelligence analysts from the analysis division and the military intelligence division.
Profile
- Dynamic, proactive, and highly motivated colleague.
- Very good research, analytical, IT, and organizational skills.
- Developed sense of service.
- Strong capacity to analyze and structure information.
- Excellent drafting skills combined with sound judgment.
- Strong sense of organization and experience in collecting and analyzing information.
- Ability to communicate clearly on complex issues.
- Capacity to perform with accuracy and in a flexible manner a diversity of tasks in a complex institutional environment.
- Flexible team player with a strong service attitude.
- Ability to work both independently and in a team, under pressure and tight deadlines, and respond to changes in a potentially rapidly evolving environment.
What they ask
- Passed a valid EPSO CAST in FG IV, or registered in the EPSO Permanent CAST for FG IV.
- Completed university studies of at least three years attested by a diploma.
- Capacity to work in the languages of the common foreign and security policy and external relations (English and French).
- National of one of the Member States of the European Union and enjoy full rights as a citizen.
- A valid Personnel Security Clearance (PSC) at the SECRET UE/EU SECRET level, issued by the competent authority of their Member State, is mandatory at the moment of application.
Desired.
- Experience of working in a team in a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural environment.
- Experience of working in Open-Source Intelligence.
- Experience in using tools related to Open-Source Intelligence.
- Knowledge and experience in the MENA region.
- Excellent knowledge of internet, social media, and IT tools and ability to carry out research using those tools.
- Knowledge of external relations, internal policies, and functioning of the Union.
- Knowledge and/or experience of global security threats and issues, and external relations.
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