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Company Overview:

Allied Universal, North America's leading security and facility services company, offers rewarding careers that provide you a sense of purpose. While working in a dynamic, welcoming, and collaborative workplace, you will be part of a team that contributes to a culture that positively impacts the communities and customers we serve.

Allied Universal is hiring a Intelligence Analyst. The Intelligence Analyst must demonstrate an ability to communicate both written and orally at a professional level and must demonstrate an ability to proactively make decisions, multi-task, and operate under tight time constraints. The Intelligence Analyst position requires a broad geopolitical awareness, working knowledge of global events, and experience with global geography/cultures. The individual must work closely with team members and the wider business to understand information requirements.

Full Time

Pay Rate: $21.50/hr.

***Valid Driver's License Required***

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Using multiple open-source intelligence sites, monitor global events, and use critical thinking to identify whether action is needed to protect customer assets
• Utilize the crisis communication process to quickly inform/respond to events that may impact customer assets, and continually monitor these situations to provide updates to the appropriate leadership
• Conduct research, assessment, and analysis to produce in-depth reports to support a variety of customer operations and help mitigate natural and man-made threats against customer assets worldwide
• Peer review work products, evaluating relevance, grammar, spelling, and overall content
• Construct routine security briefs/reports on a wide variety of topics
• Identify and report on existing and emerging security threats where the client conducts business
• Monitor incidents of civil unrest, natural hazards, geopolitics, and crime
• Generate professional and easy-to-interpret reports based on collected data
• Maintain awareness/knowledge of the current international climate, specifically where it affects our customer
• Provide key insight to stakeholders
• Be the analytical focal point for the company's security intelligence gathering processes
• Take initiative to innovate new products and reports to address vulnerabilities and threats as well as streamline processes
• Support the Corporate Security, Global Security Operations Center (GSOC), and Crisis Management as needed
• Display exceptional customer service and communication skills

QUALIFICATIONS:

• High School diploma or equivalent (e.g., GED)
• Licensing requirements are subject to state and/or local laws and regulations and may be required prior to employment
• Minimum of two (2) years in a security intelligence-related field or corporate security environment
• Excellent research, written and oral communication, and presentation skills
• Open-source research skills; ability to use/manipulate of social media resources for proactive intelligence collection
• Demonstrated research and critical thinking skills to identify, collect, synthesize, and evaluate large amounts of data and draw logical, measured, and actionable conclusions
• Ability to work a flexible schedule and sometimes extended schedule during crisis periods, this may include some weekends and holidays
• Ability to work efficiently on rotational shifts
• Ability to operate under stress and multi-task in a fast-paced environment, sometimes under strict deadlines
• Self-motivated, strong organizational and multitasking skills, detail-oriented
• Equally comfortable working independently or collaboratively on a project, often under compressed timelines and often across time zones
• Highly responsive and proactive, able to own tasks from start to finish
• Ability to manage large volumes of emails and deadlines with little supervision
• Handle crisis situations at the client site, calmly and efficiently
• Strong professional ethics and ability to maintain discretion and trust

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• College degree in a relevant field of study (e.g., international relations, political science, history, national security studies, appropriate regional studies, journalism, public relations, or business communications)
• Analytic experience within the Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) community, and/or previous experience with the intelligence community, security consulting, or corporate security
• Technical expertise and experience in information gathering from open sources, government or vendor reporting, social media and/or public or private sector partnership networks
• International experience, cultural awareness, and sensitivity

BENEFITS:

• Medical, dental, vision, basic life, AD&D, and disability insurance
• Company's retirement plans
• Seven holidays annually paid at time and a half, if worked
• 40 hours of vacation after one year of employment at eligible work assignments; unused vacation is only paid out where required by law

Florida State Security Agency License No. B8500287

Allied Universal is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, age, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or relationship/association with a protected veteran, or any other basis or characteristic protected by law. For more information: www.aus.com

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