Intelligence Analyst
Builds the sourced dossiers that decide where the fleet sails and ranks targets against the Intervention Doctrine.
Role Summary
The Intelligence Analyst builds the dossiers that decide where the fleet sails — tracking illegal fleets, shell ownership, and watershed polluters across open-source feeds, AquaLink sensor returns, and intercepted signal, then ranking targets against the four-tier Intervention Doctrine. Working the analytic floor of Intelligence & Dispatch alongside the NEREID Liaison, the Analyst correlates AIS gaps, vessel movement, and corporate ownership into a sourced picture that crews can act on and Legal can defend. The role is accountable for analytic-confidence discipline, for protecting sources and methods under TIDEWATER-4 handling, and for never letting the fleet sail on a hunch dressed as a fact. A wrong dossier does not just waste a sortie — it can put a hull alongside the wrong vessel.
Key Responsibilities
- Compile and maintain adversary dossiers from open-source, AIS, AquaLink, and field intelligence to a sourced, confidence-rated standard.
- Correlate vessel movement, beneficial ownership, and trafficking patterns for Dispatch, surfacing AIS-gap and dark-vessel activity.
- Prioritise targets against the four-tier escalation framework, recommending the lowest tier that achieves the conservation outcome.
- Brief operations crews and the Dispatch Coordinator with a current, sourced situational picture before and during sorties.
- Protect sources and methods under TIDEWATER-4 handling rules, compartmenting product appropriately.
- Feed validated entities and patterns into the NEREID dossier pipeline and flag where automated inference exceeds the evidence.
Required Qualifications
- Intelligence-analysis or investigative-journalism background.
- Fluency with OSINT, vessel-tracking, and link-analysis tooling.
- Rigorous sourcing and analytic-confidence discipline.
- Discretion appropriate to TIDEWATER-4 clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Maritime-domain-awareness or financial-crime investigation experience.
- Familiarity with beneficial-ownership and shell-company tracing.
- Working knowledge of the NEREID tasking and dossier consoles.
- Clear, decisive written briefing under time pressure.
Certifications
Curricula are delivered through the Training Academy; currency is tracked on the HR training matrix.
| Certification | Status at Hire | Renewal |
|---|---|---|
| Intelligence Tradecraft & Sourcing | Required | Annual |
| TIDEWATER-4 Information Handling | Required | Annual |
| Intervention Doctrine — Tier Discipline | Required ≤ 60 d | Annual |
| OSINT & Vessel-Tracking Tooling | Preferred | 24 months |
Physical & Hazard Requirements
- Maintain absolute OPSEC discipline on and off duty.
- Bear the stress of time-critical, consequential analytic judgments.
- Pass periodic confidentiality and clearance re-vetting.
- Sustain focus across long, uninterrupted analytic and watch periods.
Compensation Band
Career Path
The Intelligence Analyst (O-3) advances to Dispatch Chief (O-5) or laterals to NEREID Liaison (O-4) for the human-in-the-loop track. Analysts with operational instincts cross-train toward the Dispatch Coordinator role, setting the tier from the floor.
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