Senior Protective Intelligence Specialist Travel & Event Assessment

We are seeking a highly capable Senior Protective Intelligence Specialist to support the protection of senior Vanguard executives globally. This role requires an experienced protective intelligence analyst who can independently manage complex travel and event assessment workflows prioritize competing executive protection needs and produce decision-ready intelligence products under time pressure.

The positions focus the programs travel and event intelligence through scored risk assessments developed using Global Physical Securitys established methodology that directly shape how Executive Protection moves and protects Vanguards senior leaders worldwide. The successful candidates assessments will inform Executive Protections advance work route planning and posture decisions for protectee global travel and event attendance. This role sits at the intersection of intelligence tradecraft and protective operations and is ideal for an analyst who writes quickly thinks operationally and understands the value of actionable intelligence.

• Own end-to-end production of protective intelligence assessments for assigned executive travel and event coverage including intake prioritization collection analysis coordination delivery and post-coverage updates.
• Assess aggregation and OPSEC risk for multi-executive engagements and translate it into practical arrival movement and confidentiality recommendations.
• Issue venue addenda and assessment updates as itineraries evolve meeting defined SLAs.
• Prioritize overlapping assessment requests across concurrent executive travel public events and active coverage periods balancing urgency risk and operational impact in coordination with Executive Protection.

• Partner daily with Executive Protection teams to provide advance planning support route and venue intelligence and real-time OSINT monitoring during sensitive movements.
• Coordinate protective-intelligence liaison with host organizations and counterpart corporate security teams ahead of executive meetings at external sites.
• Maintain the executive travel calendar interface with Global Physical Security Intelligence regional teams (North America and International) and integrate their regional reporting into protectee assessments.
• Escalate emerging concerns during active coverage via immediate notification per the programs established escalation standards.

• Operate within the programs established templates scoring anchors and workflows; drive improvements as the product line matures.
• Log all products in the programs tracking system and contribute to post-trip after-action reviews and program metrics.

• This specialty is your primary focus not an exclusive lane. Every analyst trains to produce the programs core assessment products to standard rotates through triage and monitoring coverage and serves as designated backup for at least one other product line the team carries no single points of failure.
• Cross-train teammates in your specialty and maintain current proficiency in theirs; participate in the programs dual-review and after-action practices.

• Bachelors degree in intelligence studies security studies criminal justice international relations or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum five years of related experience with three years in protective intelligence travel risk analysis executive threat assessment or a closely related discipline in a corporate government or NGO setting.
• Experience operating with limited oversight in a fast-paced protective intelligence travel risk or security operations environment including prioritizing competing taskings and delivering timely assessments during concurrent executive movements or events.
• Strong open-source intelligence (OSINT) skills: identifying collecting evaluating and analyzing publicly available information under time constraints.
• Working knowledge of executive protection operations and how intelligence integrates with advance work.
• High ethical standards and discretion when handling sensitive executive and corporate information.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to brief senior leaders clearly and calmly under time pressure.
• Proven ability to think critically and assess incomplete ambiguous or conflicting information.

• Familiarity with threat intelligence and alerting platforms and commercial databases.
• ATAP membership; Certified Threat Manager (CTM) or progress toward it.
• Experience mentoring analysts refining assessment standards or contributing to the maturity of a protective intelligence program.

• Participation in an on-call rotation for after-hours escalation support.
• Surge support during executive travel windows including occasional early-morning evening or weekend monitoring.

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About Vanguard

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To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

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Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning collaboration and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.