Geopolitical Intelligence Analyst

Geopolitical Intelligence Analyst
Utilities
Predominantly remote - 1 day per month in Warwick
6 months+
Contract

In short: We require an Intelligence Analyst with experience in Geopolitics to join a specialist Threat Intelligence team. You will research, read, document and present findings to senior stakeholders.

This is not a cyber threat role and wouldn't suit a pure cyber candidate (too technical).

This role would suit an intelligence analyst who can demonstrate an ability to analyse current geopolitics affecting the energy industry.

In full:

Role overview:

Monitor, research and evaluate geopolitical issues and trends that may impact business objectives and provide corresponding guidance and recommendations to inform risk assessments and business decisions relating to security posture, operations, investments and partners.

Guidance and recommendations include tactical, operational and strategic threat intelligence to allow us to proactively defend against current and emerging geopolitical threats stemming from any jurisdiction globally and achieve operational effectiveness at reducing the risk and impact of any geopolitical threats confronting the business.

Develop, implement and maintain a framework for monitoring and analysis, centred on clear intelligence requirements and key indicators or warnings. Engage with senior business stakeholders to define and agree intelligence requirements and understanding of assessments and recommendations.

Provide strategic direction and outlook by horizon scanning for future trends and threats in the geopolitical domain. Simultaneously work closely with the Security leadership team and Strategy (under the Chief Commercial Officer) to ensure that timely intelligence is distributed to allow effective and timely security and business decision making.

Generate confidence in intelligence products by managing disagreement and questions relating to intelligence sources and assessments. Manage conflict and orchestrate consensus in high pressure and politically sensitive environments, which ensuring operational security of assessments and sources at all times.

Deputise for the Threat Intelligence Manager, including management of a team and supporting senior stakeholders up to EXCO level.

Key accountabilities:

• By their nature, Intelligence roles are operating in a high-pressure environment where threat information is hidden, scarce or missing. Each role is accountable for the assessments they provide and to defend the evidence and analytical rigour they've used. This accountability isn't delegated upwards.
• Day to day monitoring and analysis of geopolitical developments against Priority Intelligence Requirements.
• Contribute to the analysis and delivery of broad thematic issues that inform wider strategy and implementation, and the security risks posed.
• Monitor and interrogate geopolitical intelligence and security feeds/sources. Provide geopolitical assessments and trends analysis for the weekly intelligence summary and other routine intelligence products and briefings.
• Provide guidance and consultancy to the Security Leadership team and other relevant business units such as Strategy and Markets on all matters relating to geopolitical threats such as how they're identified, tracked, evaluated and countered. Enable these stakeholders to be threat lead in their approach and priorities; and respond swiftly with controls/countermeasures by having timely and accurate understanding of geopolitical impacts on security.
• Collect strategic, operational and tactical geopolitical intelligence and assess the threat posed by external developments. Produce proactive intelligence reports to aid Security response plans on emerging threats.
• Produce geopolitical threat assessments for the weekly intelligence summary and quarterly threat intelligence updates for the OES forum.
• Monitor global and strategic trends in security threats. Ensure that emerging trends are briefed in regular cadence intelligence products.
• Produce the monthly EXCO intelligence summary which includes reviewing and orchestrating threat intelligence content from the Strategic Cyber Senior Analyst and the Physical & Environmental Senior Analyst, reviewing and guiding them on the relevance, clarity and prioritisation of content for EXCO.
• React to any geopolitical related requirement for intelligence request (RFI) as per the priorities set by the intelligence manager.
• Brief geopolitical intelligence updates to EXCO level or partners across government as the SME.
• Attend and provide intelligence briefs at the UK Energy Resilience Group Special Interest Group (SIG) - a Gov't/Industry roundtable to collaborate on strategic, operational and tactical security threats, risks and responses

Essential experience:

• Proven experience in the fields of geopolitics, geoeconomics, threat intelligence, security & defence and the ability to produce all source analysis and assessments that identify the relevance.
• A deep understanding of, and interest in, the geopolitical and political context for the UK, critical national infrastructure, Energy Sector, gas sector (Methane, Hydrogen and CO2) and Gas.
• Proven ability to work independently and proactively. Must have ability to independently conduct high-quality preliminary research and analysis.
• Proven experience of managing intelligence collection plans and developing indicators of warnings.
• Excellent research, analysis and critical thinking skills. Strong understanding of how threat intelligence is translated into intelligence assessments and recommendations in an all-source analysis environment.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.