Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

Title: Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) Analyst

Positions: Multiple (Jr., Mid., Sr., SME)

Location: Washington DC (On-Site)

Customer: Secret Service

Salary: Please let us know your salary

Clearance: TS/SCI

Position Summary

The OSINT Analyst performs open-source intelligence research and analysis to identify threats and provide situational awareness for Customer operations. Working onsite, the analyst researches, evaluates, and reports on publicly and commercially available information concerning individuals, groups, and activities that may pose a threat and prepares timely, accurate analytic products.

Key Responsibilities

Open-Source Research and Threat Analysis

• Conduct open-source research across the surface, deep, and dark web, social media, forums, and messaging platforms to identify and assess threats to Customer, facilities, and events.

• Research, review, and evaluate a high volume of open-source information; determine relevance, priority, and validity as it pertains to the protective mission, and identify conflicts or gaps in the data.

• Support analysis across threat areas as assigned, including hostile/unusual interest, transnational and domestic terror groups, counterintelligence, cyber, and open-source threats.

• Monitor online activity and emerging trends relevant to the assigned subject area or geographic region and alert Customer personnel to developing threats.

• Conduct research on persons and groups of protective interest in support of Customer, consistent with Customer policy(s) and applicable privacy and civil-liberties requirements.

Travel and Event Support

• Provide and coordinate open-source support for Customer travel, and for Events.

• Support Customer coordinators at CONUS or OCONUS sites before and during Customer visits, including real-time open-source monitoring, incident and situation reporting, and short-notice briefings.

• Assist with debriefings of investigative and Customer personnel returning from domestic and foreign travel, and incorporate findings into analytic products and future trip assessments.

Analytic Products and Briefings

• Draft finished open-source intelligence products, information bulletins, and situation reports on individuals, groups, and activities affecting Customer interests, for review and dissemination.

• Draft open-source assessments supporting threat and risk assessments for Customer, sites, and events.

• Prepare and deliver oral and written briefings to Customer and, as directed, partner agencies.

• Support review of potentially threatening correspondence and online communications and provide analytic input to Customer for follow-up decisions.

• Ensure products are timely, complete, accurate, and compliant with Customer policy and dissemination controls.

Tradecraft, Tools, and Training Support

• Apply sound OSINT tradecraft, including managed attribution and operational security, using government-provided tools and accounts.

• Help evaluate new OSINT tools, data sources, and techniques, and provide user input on system requirements and acceptance testing.

• Help develop training materials on open-source technology and methodology, and support onboarding of newly assigned analysts and others as directed by Customer.

• Maintain accurate records of research activity, sources, and products in accordance with Customer records, information-handling, and security requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. citizen.

• Active TS/SCI clearance and willingness to submit to a polygraph if required.

• Bachelor's degree in intelligence studies, international relations, political science, criminal justice, or a related field, plus a minimum of five (5) years of intelligence analysis experience, at least three (3) of which in Open Source/OSINT research; additional qualifying experience may substitute for the degree.

• Demonstrated experience with OSINT collection and analysis across social media, forums, the deep and dark web, and commercial and public-records data sources.

• Working knowledge of OSINT tradecraft, managed attribution, and operational security practices.

• Strong inductive and deductive reasoning; ability to evaluate fragmentary, inconsistent, or unverified information and develop sound analytic judgments.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including concise finished intelligence writing and briefing to senior officials.

• Ability to work rotating shifts, nights, weekends, and holidays; to perform under high stress and short suspense; and to travel domestically and internationally (vaccinations may be required).

Preferred Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph.

• Prior protective intelligence, threat assessment, or behavioral threat analysis experience with Customer or other Federal Law Enforcement agencies or the Intelligence Community.

• Experience supporting Customers, major special events, Customer/dignitary travel, etc.

• Familiarity with domestic violent extremism, transnational terrorism, counterintelligence, or cyber threat actors.

• Foreign language proficiency relevant to protective travel or threat areas.

• OSINT certifications or formal training (e.g., SANS/GIAC GOSI, DIA/IC OSINT courses, or equivalent).

• Experience with commercial OSINT, social media monitoring, link-analysis, or geolocation tools.

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of the Customer protective mission and the role of protective intelligence in risk assessment and resource allocation.

• Knowledge of intelligence analytic standards and structured analytic techniques.

• Knowledge of international relations, current events, political trends, and cultural factors affecting threats to Customer.

• Skill in using intelligence and OSINT software and databases to collect, organize, and synthesize information into concise written and verbal products.

• Knowledge of the legal, privacy, and civil-liberties considerations governing open-source research by or for federal law enforcement.

Performance Standards

• Open-source products and reporting delivered accurately and within assigned suspense, including short-notice taskings.

• Timely identification and reporting of emerging threat information to Customer personnel.

• Full shift and event coverage as scheduled by Customer.

• Products and research activity compliant with Customer policies, dissemination controls, and privacy requirements.

• Full compliance with all Customer security protocols, information-handling requirements, and federal IT/cybersecurity standards.