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Life at GDI - Creating a world free of disinformation and its harms.
Disinformation has become a business. Today’s internet business models reward engagement above all else. These models monetise attention without considering the quality of the content garnering that attention, or the harm that may result. There is a robust and growing community of industry, policy, and civil society advocates pressing for reform of this ecosystem, they all need data to inform their actions.
The Global Disinformation Index was born out of this need for data, specifically the need for transparent, independent neutral disinformation risk ratings across the open web. Thus, GDI was established in 2018 as a not-for-profit entity built on the three pillars of neutrality, independence and transparency.
At GDI, you’ll be surrounded by people who want to improve everything and support everyone around them. Our team are passionate about our mission, experts in their fields and are collaborative problem solvers.
We continually strive to model the following behaviours in our interactions with others:
- Positivity: Problem solver, not problem raiser.
- Responsibility: Make it your problem - if it’s not right, fix it.
- Trustworthy: Make sure others can depend on you - If you say you are going to do it, do it.
- Respect: treat everyone, especially those with whom we disagree, with courtesy and respect.
This Role’s Main Responsibilities
Support the tech team and broader organisation with collecting and tagging data related to online disinformation threat actors.
This will include:
- Maintain general but extensive presence on alt- and mainstream social media to stay apprised of and be able to perform detailed research relating to trends, specific actors or threats, emerging or ongoing campaigns, etc.
- Source raw intelligence and produce finished reports for GDI’s intelligence customers.
- Maintain codebooks, lists, and training data on GDI’s growing list of adversarial narrative topics in support of the continued development of GDI’s automated data platform.
- Perform and maintain records pertaining to content moderation for various platforms.
- Support GDI’s publicly facing advocacy and education work, including creating blog posts, research reports, etc., often in collaboration with partners.
- Support knowledge sharing between the Intelligence Team and other GDI teams.
- Provide ad hoc research support across teams where needed.
Essential Experience and Qualifications
- 2+ years of open-source intelligence (OSINT) analysis.
- Experience working in diverse, cross-functional teams, including with data scientists, engineers, and product managers.
- Experience maintaining anonymized access and gathering data from alt social media platforms.
- Experience with modern OSINT tools, including custom Google searches, Crowdtangle, etc.
- Experience interacting with and supporting intelligence customers, including presenting, and creating professional finished reporting.
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office and comfortable using Google Suite products.
- A passionate self-starter with a proven ability to solve problems creatively.
- Experience seeing projects through the full life cycle.
- Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and professionalism.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Transparent, empathetic, and strong interpersonal skills.
- Concise, effective writer and communicator in the English language.
- Experience working remotely as part of a global team.
- Commitment to GDI’s mission, vision, and values, including gender equity and racial justice.
Desired Experience and Qualifications
- Experience with more advanced intelligence software tools such as Maltego, Tableau, and/or Gephi
- Experience with python and other data science tools, including pandas, numpy, networkx, etc.
- Experience managing intelligence partnerships, including internationally.
- Professional fluency in other languages in addition to English is an advantage.
- Problem solver and doer; someone who just "steps up."
Location
Remote – Based, and right to work, in the UK, Germany or the USA (preferably in the following states: Texas, New York, Florida, or D.C.).
Reporting To
Intelligence Manager
Hours & Terms
Working hours are flexible. Full-time (37.5 per week). As a global organisation, some flexibility for cross-time zone communication to be available for limited virtual meetings outside of office hours is required. Competitive salary - benchmarked and based on location and expertise.
A place to be your authentic self
We are virtual by design to access a rich diversity of skills, expertise, experiences, and perspectives. Our commitment to neutrality is unwavering – across all of our work around the globe. Our employees are central to our mission and to our impact and we know that having varied perspectives helps generate better ideas to solve the complex challenges.
Applications are now closed