Protective Intelligence Analyst

Company Overview:

Elevate your security career with Allied Universal Enhanced Protection Services, a global leader in security and threat mitigation. We specialize in risk consulting, executive protection, intelligence, investigations, and emergency response, offering exciting career opportunities for professionals passionate about security and safety. Join our innovative team committed to excellence in the security industry and make a meaningful impact. Explore key roles, such as executive protection agents, intelligence analysts, armed security operatives, x-ray screeners, and security consultants.

The Protective Intelligence Analyst is responsible for supporting the executive protection teams for travel risk, threat monitoring and mitigation, and research and analysis on Risk, Threats, and Vulnerabilities related to client principals. The starting salary for this role is $95,000 annually. This is a full-time position in Austin, Texas.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Job Functions

Threat Monitoring & Early Warning

• Continuously monitor open sources, social media platforms, dark web, and client-specific intelligence tools for threats or hostile surveillance activity directed at principals, their families, residences, travel plans, or affiliated events.

Protective Research & Threat Analysis

• Conduct in-depth research and analysis on persons of interest (POIs), hostile actors, and groups with the intent or capability to target principals. Assess motivations, capability, opportunity, and intent to identify potential attack indicators.

Travel Risk Intelligence

• Provide proactive intelligence support to executive protection teams during domestic and international travel, including country risk assessments, route reconnaissance, hotel and venue security reviews, and incident monitoring during trips. Deliver timely updates to traveling principals and EP teams.

Protective Operations Support

• Deliver actionable, real-time intelligence to EP teams in support of principal movements, protective advances, route planning, and residence/event security. Maintain constant threat environment awareness and communicate relevant changes.

Geopolitical & Environmental Risk Tracking

• Monitor global and regional security issues, including terrorism, political unrest, crime trends, natural disasters, and health risks—that could affect principals' safety during travel or at residences/events.

Actionable Reporting & Products

Produce timely, clear, and actionable intelligence products including:

• Threat assessments (strategic and tactical)
• Travel risk assessments (pre-trip and in-trip updates)
• Situation reports (SITREPs) and incident summaries
• Route and location assessments (residences, hotels, venues, offices)

Threat Mitigation Recommendations

• Provide practical, proportionate recommendations to EP teams on how to mitigate identified threats, risks, and vulnerabilities. Offer clear triggers and indicators for escalation or operational adjustments.

Database & Knowledge Management

• Maintain a structured, cross-referenced database of threats, POIs, incidents, and lessons learned to support future operations and ensure continuity of protective intelligence programs.

Confidentiality & Security

• Safeguard sensitive client information, personal identifiers, and operational details at all times, adhering to strict confidentiality and need-to-know principles.

Additional Job Functions

Operational Integration

• Serve as the intelligence liaison to executive protection, event security, and corporate security teams, ensuring protective intelligence is integrated into all protective operations.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and maintain professional relationships with private sector peers, law enforcement, and intelligence-sharing communities to enhance threat awareness and protective intelligence capabilities.

Knowledge Gaps & Training Support

• Identify intelligence gaps and recommend collection priorities or training needs for EP teams. Support after-action reviews and lessons learned processes.

Special Projects & Adaptability

• Support special projects such as major events, high-risk travel, or new client onboarding by tailoring intelligence requirements, assessments, and reporting to unique operational demands.

Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to the refinement of protective intelligence methodologies, SOPs, and best practices to advance program maturity and operational effectiveness 

Minimum Qualifications and Requirements

Experience

• A minimum of 3 years of recent protective intelligence experience supporting executive protection teams and principals, or 5+ years of equivalent military, law enforcement, or intelligence experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Intelligence Studies, International Relations, Homeland Security, or related field (or equivalent operational experience).
• Formal Intelligence Training certification (Military, Government, Association, or Private Sector) required.
• Advanced training in threat assessment, travel risk management, or protective intelligence preferred.

Education & Training

• Bachelor's degree in Intelligence Studies, International Relations, Security Studies, or related field (or equivalent operational experience).
• Formal Intelligence Training certification (Military, Government, Association, or accredited Private Sector) required.
• Additional training in protective intelligence, threat assessment, travel risk management, or executive protection operations strongly preferred.

Core Competencies

• Skilled in open-source (OSINT) and social media research, threat monitoring, and incident verification.
• Experience producing protective intelligence products—threat assessments, travel risk reports, route/residence assessments, and pre-travel advisories.
• Ability to collect, vet, and analyze information using the intelligence cycle to create accurate, actionable, bias-mitigated reporting.
• Strong understanding of global security, geopolitical risks, terrorism, crime, and crisis response as they relate to executive travel and operations.
• Proven ability to support EP operations in real time, providing clear, concise, and timely threat updates to decision-makers.

Technical & Intelligence Skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and familiarity with protective intelligence platforms (e.g., Factal, Dataminr, Babel Street, LifeRaft, Echosec).
• Experience with data visualization or mapping tools (e.g., Power BI, ArcGIS, Tableau) preferred.
• Strong understanding of travel risk management and life-safety protocols.
• Knowledge of APA format and professional intelligence writing standards.

Professional Knowledge

• Strong familiarity with all major social media platforms and their exploitation for threat detection.
• Up-to-date knowledge of world news, global current events, and regional issues affecting executive travel and operations.
• Ability to effectively communicate with and support all levels of management, including senior executives and EP leadership.
• Flexible, adaptable, and resourceful; able to reprioritize during crisis events.
• Strong time management and organizational skills.
• Bias-aware analyst who applies structured analytical methodologies.
• Professional demeanor, integrity, and discretion in handling sensitive or confidential information.

Preferred

• Experience in a Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) environment.
• Certifications such as CPP, PSP, APP, or ATAP membership.
• Foreign language proficiency is beneficial.

Communication & Analytical Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to brief and advise senior leadership and EP command effectively.
• Demonstrated critical thinking, attention to detail, and ability to perform under pressure.
• Capable of synthesizing large volumes of data into clear, actionable insights.
• Effective team player that can also operate independently in fast-paced or high-stress environments.

Allied Universal is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, age, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status or relationship/association with a protected veteran, or any other basis or characteristic protected by law. For more information:

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