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Protective Intelligence Analyst at Control Risks: Boston, United States; On-site; Full time; Operations & Project Management. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.
- Location and workplace: Boston, United States, On-site
- Role classification: Operations & Project Management, Full time
- Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-05-29.
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Control Risks is hiring a Protective Intelligence Analyst to help support the executive protection program of a major client of Control Risks. This role will require the candidate to have a clear understanding of executive protection and be able to independently produce tactical intelligence reports to include POI investigations, and executive event and travel assessments. This role will require the candidate to be able to clearly communicate with the client’s EP team and executives, as well as the GSOC team to delegate responsibility for monitoring projects and support the broader intelligence teams.
- Conduct protective intelligence research and analysis in support of senior executives, board members, executive travel, events and other relevant exposure points.
- Identify, monitor, research and assess emerging threats, trends and issues that may affect the client’s personnel, executives, facilities, travel or operations.
- Conduct open-source research, social media review and online threat monitoring in support of protective intelligence requirements.
- Produce timely, accurate and actionable intelligence products, including recurring briefs, travel-specific assessments, event-support products, executive threat assessments and issue-driven reporting.
- Support the embedded executive protection team by providing threat context, route and location awareness, event intelligence and escalation support.
- Work closely with the client’s existing analyst and Global Security leadership to ensure protective intelligence is coordinated with broader geopolitical, travel, event and workplace violence / threat-management efforts.
- Support the development of reporting formats, workflows, escalation thresholds and standard products for a new or maturing protective intelligence function.
- Monitor automated alerts and relevant information sources to identify threats, suspicious activity, persons of interest or issues requiring review.
- Conduct preliminary persons-of-interest research and support escalation of cases requiring deeper investigation, threat assessment or specialist support.
- Maintain accurate case notes, research files, intelligence products and other records consistent with client and Control Risks expectations.
- Use client-provided tools and systems, which may include Seerist, Ontic, Everbridge, TLO, International SOS TRM, Virtual Command Center or other platforms as required.
- Coordinate with Control Risks’ Online Threat Intelligence and specialist teams for methodology, workflow guidance, quality assurance and limited reach-back support within the agreed operating model.
- Provide timely verbal briefings to executive protection personnel, Global Security stakeholders and other client decision-makers as needed.
- Support emergency or off-hours response in exceptional cases involving active threats, travel disruption or time-sensitive executive risk concerns.
- Perform other duties as assigned in support of the client and Control Risks Embedded Consulting Services.