Location: Bangalore, India

About the Role:

You’ll be part of the Economic and Country Risk – OSINT team responsible for using hybrid machine-human sources to collect and enhance data about global security and political risks and using that to power a range of innovative predictive applications to better understand what is happening and changing in the world.

• Monitor and collect key political and global security events across assigned countries, ensuring comprehensive coverage of critical developments.
• Utilize licensed platforms and OSINT methodologies to systematically identify and extract relevant intelligence events on a global scale.
• Assess and verify the authenticity, credibility, and reliability of sources before integrating events into the intelligence database.
• Draft and publish well-structured, analytical intelligence summaries that accurately capture key event details.
• Ensure precise attribution of collected events, maintaining consistency in event categorization and metadata tagging.
• Conduct quality control checks on all collected information, identifying inconsistencies and ensuring adherence to data accuracy standards.
• Continuously identify and integrate new sources, with a focus on primary, region-specific, and high-reliability intelligence channels.
• Collaborate to contextualize terrorism data into wider security risk frameworks and client deliverables.
• Support research initiatives and provide analytical assistance for special projects as required by the business.
• Strictly adhere to standard operating procedures (SOPs) for data collection, categorization, and processing, ensuring compliance with organizational guidelines.
• Maintain and update documentation for assigned countries, ensuring accuracy and completeness in the intelligence collection plan.
• Support operations across flexible shifts, including on public holidays, any other S&P Global provided holidays, and on weekends (during emergency crises like protests/riots/or any other political violence in the assigned region/country)

Competencies

• Bachelors /Masters In Political Science, Internation Relations, International Affairs, Public Policy, Economics, Defense and Strategic Studies.
• Knowledge On OSINT
• Broad knowledge of geopolitical affairs and global awareness of influences on business goals and strategies
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment
• Excellent Computer and Analytical skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent command of the 
• English Language (written and spoken)
• Knowledge and understanding of different cultures and regions
• Fluent in English (Not Mandatory but one or more languages – French, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, Mandarin, South East Asian language preferred), with excellent written and verbal communication skills.