Senior Analyst – MENA Focus

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🦀 Maryland – Remote

🦀 Maryland – Remote

💵 $77k - $84k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧐 Analyst

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ExTrac

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11 - 50 employees

🏢 Enterprise

🔐 Security

☁️ SaaS

Enterprise • Security • SaaS

ExTrac is a provider of domain-specific intelligence and analytics that combines curated real-world data, human expertise, and agentic AI (its Co-Analyst) to deliver timely, actionable insights for risk and opportunity assessment. Their platform includes a web app, mobile app, reporting tools, and integrations that enable users to ingest their own data, run investigations, generate visualisations and reports, and receive alerts. ExTrac's solutions target customers across defence & security, financial services, insurance, corporate risk, law enforcement, and tech platforms, supporting use cases such as situational awareness, compliance, early warning, content moderation, and operational intelligence.

📋 Description

• Monitor and assess political, security, and socio-economic developments across MENA • Monitor Arabic- and English-language media, news outlets, social media, official statements, and other open-source information environments • Track violent extremist organisation and non-state armed group activity, including organisational, propaganda, communications, governance, operational, and regional-linkage developments • Identify new narratives, actors, platforms, and threats across online ecosystems • Apply structured analytical techniques to assess complex information and identify patterns and relationships • Lead and contribute to daily, weekly, monthly, flash, and deep-dive analytical reporting focused on MENA and VEOs • Translate and assess Arabic-language documents and source material • Contribute to client-facing discussions, briefings, and ad hoc research requests • Develop and maintain subject-matter expertise across designated countries, actors, organisations, and thematic areas • Identify and propose new actors, entities, channels, and outlets for inclusion in ExTrac's research ecosystem • Verify and assess sources in the original language • Maintain coverage against intelligence requirements and identify opportunities to expand or deepen coverage • Contribute to taxonomy and tagging decisions structuring MENA and violent-extremism data • Work with research and data teams to translate analytical judgement into structured data • Support the Team Lead with reviewing and quality assurance of analytical outputs • Mentor junior analysts on research methodology, analytical standards, and source validation • Support other ExTrac teams on projects and deliverables • Help develop research methodologies, monitoring frameworks, and analytical processes • Integrate AI systems and AI-assisted workflows into analytical practice

🎯 Requirements

• At least five years of professional experience in intelligence analysis, geopolitical risk, disinformation analysis, strategic communications, international security, international relations, or a related field • Strong subject-matter knowledge of the MENA region, including its key political and security actors and regional dynamics • Working understanding of VEOs, their online ecosystems, communications strategies, narratives, and operational activity, built through direct analytical experience • Fluency in written Arabic, across Modern Standard Arabic and local dialects, including knowledge of slang • Ability to monitor, analyse, and translate Arabic-language content from a range of sources • Demonstrable experience applying structured analytical methodologies to complex information environments and online ecosystems, including OSINT, network analysis, narrative analysis, sentiment analysis, or other quantitative and qualitative approaches • Strong written communication skills and track record producing concise, high-quality, policy-relevant intelligence and analytical outputs under tight deadlines • Hands-on experience curating source coverage, identifying and verifying online sources, assessing affiliation, and maintaining structured datasets to a defined standard • Experience proofreading, editing, and quality-assuring analytical products • Strong organisational skills and ability to work independently while managing multiple concurrent workstreams and competing priorities • Strong attention to detail and ability to distinguish meaningful developments from high-volume information flows • Ability to communicate complex political, security, and extremist-related developments clearly to specialist and non-specialist audiences • Comfortable integrating AI systems into workflow to improve outputs and efficiency • Strong understanding of legal and ethical considerations surrounding intelligence collection, open-source research, and data handling • Desirable: experience leading analysis on international security, violent extremism, terrorism, or state- and non-state-aligned influence and disinformation ecosystems • Desirable: experience researching VEOs and extremist online activity across platforms such as Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, RocketChat, and TikTok • Desirable: experience with data science, AI-enabled research tools, or advanced OSINT platforms • Desirable: proficiency in additional relevant languages such as French, Farsi, Turkish, Kurdish, or Russian • Desirable: familiarity with the PHIA Yardstick • Desirable: experience developing analytical methodologies, research frameworks, monitoring requirements, data schemas, or taxonomies • Desirable: experience mentoring junior analysts, reviewing analytical outputs, or leading small analytical projects • Legally authorized to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary based on skills and experience • Medical health insurance • 401(k) • $500/year education budget • More expensive educational items, such as conferences, covered with manager approval • 33 days of leave across the year inclusive of national holidays • Mission-driven purpose with cutting-edge technology in a fast-growing company