Protective Intelligence Analyst

Control Risks is seeking a Protective Intelligence Analyst to support the executive protection program of a major client. This role involves producing tactical intelligence reports, including POI investigations and executive event and travel assessments, while collaborating with the client's EP team, executives, and the GSOC team.

Responsibilities

• Conduct protective intelligence research and analysis in support of senior executives, board members, executive travel, events, and other relevant exposure points.
• Identify, monitor, research, and assess emerging threats, trends, and issues that may affect the client's personnel, executives, facilities, travel, or operations.
• Perform open-source research, social media review, and online threat monitoring to support protective intelligence requirements.
• Produce timely, accurate, and actionable intelligence products, including recurring briefs, travel-specific assessments, event-support products, executive threat assessments, and issue-driven reporting.
• Support the embedded executive protection team by providing threat context, route and location awareness, event intelligence, and escalation support.
• Work closely with the client's existing analyst and Global Security leadership to ensure protective intelligence is coordinated with broader geopolitical, travel, event, and workplace violence/threat-management efforts.
• Support the development of reporting formats, workflows, escalation thresholds, and standard products for a new or maturing protective intelligence function.
• Monitor automated alerts and relevant information sources to identify threats, suspicious activity, persons of interest, or issues requiring review.
• Conduct preliminary persons-of-interest research and support escalation of cases requiring deeper investigation, threat assessment, or specialist support.
• Maintain accurate case notes, research files, intelligence products, and other records consistent with client and Control Risks expectations.
• Use client-provided tools and systems, which may include Seerist, Ontic, Everbridge, TLO, International SOS TRM, Virtual Command Center, or other platforms as required.
• Coordinate with Control Risks' Online Threat Intelligence and specialist teams for methodology, workflow guidance, quality assurance, and limited reach-back support within the agreed operating model.
• Provide timely verbal briefings to executive protection personnel, Global Security stakeholders, and other client decision-makers as needed.
• Support emergency or off-hours response in exceptional cases involving active threats, travel disruption, or time-sensitive executive risk concerns.
• Perform other duties as assigned in support of the client and Control Risks Embedded Consulting Services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in history, political science, international relations, intelligence analysis, criminal justice, regional studies, or a related discipline.
• 5-7 years of experience in protective intelligence, threat intelligence, security analysis, or related analytical roles.
• Experience supporting executive protection, senior executive risk, travel security, event security, workplace violence/threat management, or similar security programs strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to collect, evaluate, and synthesize information from multiple sources into concise and actionable intelligence products.
• Strong written and verbal briefing skills, including the ability to communicate clearly with both operational teams and senior client stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of open-source research methods, online threat monitoring, social media research, and digital investigative techniques.
• Familiarity with protective intelligence concepts, persons-of-interest assessment, threat escalation, and executive-risk workflows.
• Familiarity with platforms such as Seerist, Ontic, Everbridge, TLO, International SOS TRM, Virtual Command Center, or comparable tools preferred.
• Ability to work independently while remaining aligned with a broader security team and client operating environment.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, competing priorities, and time-sensitive requirements.
• Strong discretion, judgment, and ability to handle sensitive information.

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental, and vision benefits.
• Life and AD&D insurance, plus voluntary life and AD&D options.
• Disability benefits.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Nationwide pet insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Voluntary benefits.
• Discretionary bonus scheme based on company and individual performance.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $115,000–$130,000 per year. Exact compensation may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.