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POSITION NOT YET FUNDED. NAVANTI IS CURRENTLY ACCEPTING RESUMES FROM CANDIDATES FOR ANTICIPATED SECURITY AND STABILIZATION WORK.
Location: Arlington VA (Crystal City) or remote
Core Responsibilities:
Navanti has an anticipated requirement for an entry level opensource researcher to work with our multidisciplinary team who can use his/her knowledge of economics politics/government social issues and cultural nuances across the world. The researcher should have knowledge and/or experience in one or more global regions including but not limited to: the Americas the Arabian Peninsula the Caribbean Central Asia East Africa East Asia Europe the Levant the Maghreb North Africa the Pacific South Africa and South Asia. The researcher will gather and analyze data pertinent to the media environment demographics and security affairs of these various regions and will be responsible for collecting information from open sources including regional and other nonEnglish news outlets social media blogs academic literature local contacts and other sources.
Responsibilities:
- The researcher will assist in project design implementation and report writing for multiple analytical products
- The researcher will assist in data collection analysis and quality control for various analytical focused on market research
Minimum Qualifications:
- Detailoriented with an ability to multitask and manage time effectively
- Ability to follow instructions meet deadlines and produce excellent work with minimal supervision
- 15 years of relevant experience
- Strong writing and editing abilities
- Strong research skills particularly using foreignlanguage media and social media sources
- Opensource analysis experience in an academic or professional setting
- Proficient in MS Office especially Excel and PowerPoint; experience using Power BI PDF editor and InDesign a plus
- Literacy in global media landscape
- Familiarity with the politics culture and history of at least one the abovementioned regions
- Strong understanding of conflictaffected regions/countries
- Experience living in studying or working on topics related to any of the abovementioned regions
- Strong data management and analysis abilities
- Strong interpersonal skills; ability to work closely (virtually) with primary sources across the world / maintain strong rapport with individuals across various language/cultural barriers
Language:
- Working proficiency in one or more of the following relevant languages strongly preferred; exposure to multiple highly desired.
Afrikaans
Austrian
Arabic
Bulgarian
Chinese (Cantonese and/or Mandarin)
Czech
Estonian
Ethiopian
Finnish
French
Georgian
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Kazakh
Kyrgyz
Latvian
Lithuanian
Polish
Romanian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Tagalog
Tajiki
Turkish
Turkmen
Thai
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Education:
- Minimum of a BA/BS in relevant field (Anthropology Economics International Affairs Journalism Political Science Security Studies Sociology)
- MA/MS or currently pursuing preferred
Security Clearance:
- None required; ability to eventually obtain minimum of SECRET clearance desired
Employment Type
Full Time
