Open-Source Media Analyst

Responsibilities

• Develop a shared understanding of the information environment by providing timely, accurate, and contextual analysis of traditional media, social media, and key audiences, and communicate insights to decision-makers.
• Align media monitoring and analysis with internal and external command priorities and national messaging objectives.
• Analyze open-source information and apply intelligence processes to identify, compile, assess, and disseminate all-source material.
• Maintain situational awareness of the information environment to provide strategic counsel on priority topics at any time.
• Deliver clear, confident briefings—both orally and in writing—to senior leaders. Identify, monitor, and analyze trends across social media, breaking news, media briefings, congressional hearings, and key speeches, and distribute products that convey these insights.
• Develop creative approaches to ensure monitoring and analysis products reach and resonate with the right audiences.
• Collaborate with command leaders and staff across subordinate and supporting organizations to identify communication risks and opportunities.
• Conduct and oversee research to provide leaders with historical context and a broad understanding of the information environment.
• Advise on the capabilities, limitations, and effectiveness of various media monitoring and analysis tools and products.
• Train personnel in media monitoring methodologies, analytic techniques, and supporting technologies.
• Thrive within an agile, adaptive, and challenging team environment, including during travel to austere locations.
• Continuously monitor, integrate, and share relevant best practices and technologies emerging from industry and academia.

Basic Qualifications

• 3 years of experience delivering strategic media or intelligence monitoring and analysis for senior government or industry leaders.
• 3 years of experience ingesting, analyzing, and summarizing large volumes of metadata, public data, social media, and other intelligence sources.
• 3 years of experience using communication tools to prepare and present multimedia products to diverse audiences.
• Expertise in any of the Microsoft 365 applications.

Nice to have

• Must be able to flex and adapt working hours to meet the operational requirements of a dynamic command – mission-critical support is sometimes required during extended hours and on weekends and holidays.
• Experience utilizing AI to create agents with proper algorithm to monitor regional/global/traditional/social media.
• Understanding of the global security landscape, including emerging threats, asymmetric challenges, and special operations priorities.
• Experience synthesizing high-volume, high-velocity information to deliver actionable, contextual reporting for decision-makers.
• Experience using technology to automate monitoring tasks and develop production workflows for analysis dissemination.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in international relations, government, history, journalism, communications, marketing, business administration, or a related field—or equivalent work experience.

Clearance

• An active TS/SCI is required.