Americas Regional Security Analyst

Shell • Houston, TX

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About The Position

The Americas Regional Security Analyst is part of Shell’s Intelligence & Assessment Team (I&AT), which provides security intelligence and geopolitical insights across Shell’s businesses and functions. The team is a component of Corporate Security and helps the company assess threats, define risks, and support value creation through strategic intelligence. The I&AT is an expert resource for analysis and assessment of geopolitical and security threats.

The analyst is principally accountable for identifying and assessing security threats across the Americas, owning the Threat Assessment process, and communicating changes in threat environments and emerging trends. The role produces forward-looking written and oral assessments, supports operational and tactical intelligence needs, and develops strategic intelligence requirements based on business needs. It also involves maintaining senior-level relationships and authoritative information sources, advising Shell security and business leaders, travelling regularly within the region, and supporting security developments and incidents outside normal working hours.

Requirements

• Must have legal authorization to work in the United States on a full-time basis for an employer other than the current employer.
• Bachelor’s degree; an advanced qualification in a relevant discipline is preferred.
• At least five years of relevant professional experience in security intelligence, geopolitical analysis, threat assessment, or a closely related field.
• Relevant experience in government, commercial, research, or NGO settings, with a strong focus on information collation and analysis and a proven record of presenting written and verbal briefings to senior audiences.
• Deep substantive knowledge of the Americas, particularly Latin America, including its politics, history, culture, security, and regional context.
• Professional fluency in written and spoken Spanish, including the ability to participate fully in Spanish-language meetings, understand detail and context, and conduct real-time analysis and ask appropriate follow-up questions.
• Substantive intelligence experience in the public and/or private sectors, including understanding of the intelligence cycle and its application in a commercial environment.
• Significant training and professional experience in analytic tradecraft, including assessing threat-actor intent and capability, threat drivers, likely future developments, and evidence-based threat forecasting.
• Deep knowledge of international affairs and the ability to examine issues for second- and third-order implications for Shell.
• An established regional network and the ability to quickly build productive relationships and networks at all levels, internally and externally.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience with open-source intelligence tools and techniques.
• Ability to work independently in a dispersed virtual team structure.

Nice To Haves

• An additional regional language.
• International work and travel experience, particularly regional postings.
• An advanced qualification in a relevant discipline, such as International Relations, Politics, History, Security Studies, or International Development.

Responsibilities

• Own the Threat Assessment process for identifying and assessing security threats in the Americas, anticipating and monitoring changing threat environments, communicating emerging trends, and identifying indicators and triggers.
• Produce oral and written strategic intelligence assessments of geopolitical and security dynamics that could materially affect the company, including forward-looking assessments and outlooks.
• Support operational and tactical intelligence requirements using open-source intelligence (OSINT) and a substantial regional network; apply the intelligence cycle to security information, reporting requirements, and production.
• Identify emerging threats and shape and prioritise strategic intelligence requirements based on business needs; respond to requests for information and support business planning and key decision points.
• Establish and maintain senior-level relationships and authoritative information sources internally and externally, ensuring regular information flows with peers, governments, academia, and NGOs.
• Provide strategic and operational liaison and guidance to Shell security and business leaders.
• Travel regularly within the region to conduct assessments, deepen subject matter expertise, and develop external networks.
• Provide support outside normal working hours and respond proactively to security-relevant developments and incidents.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision coverage
• Life insurance
• Business Travel Accident Insurance
• Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs
• Company pension plan
• 401(k) plan
• Up to 6 weeks of paid vacation time
• Up to 11 paid holidays
• Paid parental leave: 16 weeks for birthing parents and 8 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Short-term disability leave for up to 26 weeks at 100% or 50% of base pay
• Long-Term Disability insurance
• Financial reimbursement for adoption, wellness, education, and personal learning expenses
• Discretionary long-term incentives for some roles
• Flexible working hours and the possibility of remote/mobile working
• Annual performance-related salary increase
• Training and development programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior