Copy Editor, Digital Threat Analysis Center

Responsibilities

• Content improvement: Receives feedback from a team member and incorporates changes into content (reports, presentations, infographics, and other products) from across DTAC’s regionally focused teams.
• Assist in the execution of DTAC operations to include written productions, coordination with external vendors and hosting of in-person events.
• Coordinate and collaborate with DTAC analysts and leadership to craft, edit, and fact-check DTAC reports and other written and visual products for internal and external stakeholders and customers.
• Content strategy: Collaborates with team members to execute on strategy through the development of content (reports, presentations, infographics, and other products) to convey DTAC analysis and findings for internal and external stakeholders.
• Expand partnerships internally and externally to build resilience in the information environment, increase speed of threat detection, and empower effective counter action.
• Customer engagement: Address customer feedback in development and refinement of content (reports, presentations, infographics, and other products).

Qualifications

• OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) of proven writing, content design, information technology (IT), or coding/programming experience
  • OR equivalent experience.

• 1+ years in journalism/media or similar role with experience reporting, editing, and fact-checking written content.

• This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport
• This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under U.S. export control regulations, potentially under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations or the Export Administration Regulations. As a condition of employment, the successful candidate will be required to provide proof of citizenship, U.S. permanent residency or other protected status under 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3) for assessment of eligibility to access the export-controlled information. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent cross-group collaborator with experience building relationships.
• General understanding and interest in geopolitics, social media, cybersecurity, and information integrity issues.
• 1+ years producing actionable threat intelligence or strategic analysis through written reports and products is a plus.
• Fluency in multiple languages is a plus.
• Experience collaborating with front-line actor analysts, technical collectors, and threat intelligence partners in government and industry is a plus.
• 2+ years writing, editing, or producing public content in a fast-paced environment and under tight deadlines.