Senior Protective Intelligence Analyst

Allied Universal•East Hartford, CT

About The Position

Allied Universal® Enhanced Protection Services is seeking an experienced Senior Protective Intelligence Analyst to strengthen its protective intelligence capabilities through advanced analysis, high-quality intelligence production, analyst mentorship, and continuous process improvement. This senior individual-contributor role supports corporate clients, executives, facilities, travelers, events, and other designated assets. The analyst is a trusted resource who helps ensure intelligence products are accurate, timely, actionable, and aligned with client requirements. The role focuses on analytical excellence, quality control, threat assessment, escalation recommendations, and developing junior analysts. The analyst provides constructive feedback, identifies intelligence gaps, and helps improve standard operating procedures, reporting standards, and program processes. There are no personnel management or supervisory responsibilities. The position requires sound judgment, polished writing, operational discipline, and collaboration with intelligence teams, GSOCs, executive protection personnel, clients, and other stakeholders. Work schedules depend on client and program requirements and may include standard business hours, shifts, weekends, holidays, on-call availability, and extended coverage during incidents or elevated threat conditions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent relevant professional experience may be considered.
Formal intelligence training required.
Minimum of five years of direct protective intelligence experience in corporate intelligence, military intelligence, federal, state, or local law enforcement intelligence, or a closely related field.
Demonstrated experience reviewing and editing intelligence products and providing constructive analytical feedback.
Experience mentoring or coaching junior analysts or professional peers; personnel management or supervisory experience is not required.
Strong understanding of the intelligence cycle, open-source research, source validation, credibility assessment, bias mitigation, structured analysis, and written intelligence production.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to brief and communicate professionally with executives, clients, peers, and operational stakeholders.
Ability to assess threats, prioritize information, evaluate uncertainty, and recommend appropriate escalations.
Ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines during routine operations and high-pressure incidents.
Proficiency with productivity tools, including Microsoft Office, Google Workspace, or comparable applications.
Ability to use or quickly learn intelligence platforms, alerting systems, social media research tools, mapping applications, travel risk platforms, databases, and client-specific systems.
Discretion and professionalism when handling confidential, sensitive, or potentially consequential information.

Nice To Haves

Experience in executive protection and executive threat monitoring.
Experience in workplace violence prevention and threat management.
Experience with person-of-concern identification, assessment, and reporting workflows.
Experience in corporate security intelligence and enterprise threat management.
Experience in travel risk intelligence and international security assessments.
Experience in event security intelligence and protest monitoring.
Experience in GSOC operations and incident response support.
Experience in public safety intelligence, military intelligence, or investigative support.
Experience developing standard operating procedures and improving intelligence programs.
Experience with reporting templates, escalation matrices, and quality-assurance processes.
Experience briefing senior leadership, client executives, or operational stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Conduct senior-level protective intelligence activities, including monitoring, collection, assessment, reporting, escalation recommendations, and dissemination.
Support OSINT monitoring, social media research, persons-of-concern assessments, executive exposure reviews, travel risk support, event monitoring, facility risk assessments, and incident reporting.
Evaluate emerging threats and assess the credibility, relevance, reliability, and potential operational impact of information.
Identify collection gaps, recurring intelligence requirements, emerging threat patterns, and opportunities to strengthen protective intelligence coverage.
Support intelligence responses involving executive travel, corporate events, protests, workplace violence concerns, critical incidents, natural disasters, geopolitical developments, and other client-impacting situations.
Recommend appropriate escalation of threat information to GSOC personnel, client stakeholders, executive protection teams, program leadership, and other relevant partners.
Review, edit, and improve intelligence products, including situation reports, intelligence summaries, threat assessments, incident reports, executive briefings, travel intelligence products, and client-specific deliverables.
Provide substantive analytical feedback to designated reviewers and approvers to strengthen the accuracy, relevance, clarity, and operational value of intelligence reporting.
Conduct peer reviews and quality-control checks for analytical rigor, source attribution, credibility assessments, grammar, formatting, consistency, and compliance with client requirements.
Identify unsupported conclusions, analytical gaps, source reliability concerns, and potential bias in intelligence products.
Ensure intelligence reporting is tailored to the audience, operational context, and required delivery timelines.
Mentor and coach junior analysts in intelligence collection, research methods, source validation, credibility assessment, bias mitigation, structured analysis, written reporting, and briefing skills.
Reinforce appropriate application of the intelligence cycle, from requirement development and collection through analysis and timely dissemination.
Provide constructive peer feedback that improves analytical judgment, writing quality, and stakeholder communication.
Assist analysts in understanding stakeholder requirements, setting realistic product expectations, and meeting operational deadlines.
Promote a collaborative, professional environment that encourages analytical discipline, continuous learning, and accountability.
Assist program leadership in developing and refining standard operating procedures, quick-reference guides, reporting templates, escalation criteria, intelligence production standards, and quality-control processes.
Identify workflow inefficiencies, recurring operational challenges, training needs, and opportunities to improve intelligence support.
Coordinate with GSOC leadership, client security teams, executive protection teams, investigations, crisis management, travel risk personnel, local partners, and other relevant stakeholders.
Provide leadership with recommendations concerning product quality, workflow effectiveness, training priorities, and operational deliverables.
Protect confidential and sensitive information while complying with applicable privacy requirements, laws, organizational policies, and client-specific procedures.