Senior Protective Intelligence Analyst

Allied Universal•East Hartford, CT

6d•$120,000 - $120,000

About The Position

The Senior Protective Intelligence Analyst is a senior individual-contributor role responsible for conducting, reviewing, and improving protective intelligence analysis for corporate clients, executives, facilities, travelers, events, and other designated assets. Reporting to the Intelligence Manager, Protective Intelligence Program Manager, Intelligence Director, or designated client program lead, the analyst ensures intelligence products are accurate, timely, actionable, and aligned with client requirements. The role focuses on analytical quality, threat assessment, escalation recommendations, and developing junior analysts through mentorship. It has no personnel management or supervisory responsibilities. The analyst collaborates with intelligence teams, Global Security Operations Centers (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. The position pays an annual salary of $120,000. Allied Universal® Enhanced Protection Services offers medical, dental, and vision coverage; employee life insurance; a 401(k) retirement plan; employee assistance programs; paid holidays and flexible paid time off; and a collaborative culture emphasizing work-life balance. Benefit eligibility and plan details are subject to company policies and plan terms.

Requirements

Formal intelligence training is required.
At least 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 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 such as 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.
Demonstrated discretion and professionalism when handling confidential, sensitive, or potentially consequential information.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent relevant professional experience may be considered.
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 with 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 developing reporting templates, escalation matrices, and quality-assurance processes.
Experience delivering briefings to 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, including 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 escalation of threat information to GSOC personnel, client stakeholders, executive protection teams, program leadership, and other relevant partners.
Review, edit, and improve intelligence products such as situation reports, intelligence summaries, threat assessments, incident reports, executive briefings, travel intelligence products, and client-specific deliverables.
Provide substantive analytical feedback to reviewers and approvers to strengthen the accuracy, relevance, clarity, and operational value of 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 reporting is tailored to its audience, operational context, and required delivery timelines.
Mentor and coach junior analysts in collection, research methods, source validation, credibility assessment, bias mitigation, structured analysis, written reporting, and briefing skills.
Reinforce application of the intelligence cycle from requirement development and collection through analysis and timely dissemination.
Provide constructive peer feedback and help analysts understand stakeholder requirements, set product expectations, and meet operational deadlines.
Promote a collaborative, professional environment focused on 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 stakeholders.
Provide leadership with recommendations concerning product quality, workflow effectiveness, training priorities, and operational deliverables.
Protect confidential and sensitive information and comply with applicable privacy requirements, laws, organizational policies, and client-specific procedures.