Military Events Analyst

Janes Description:

Janes empowers military, government, and defence leaders to act with confidence in an increasingly complex world. Our trusted defence, security, and geopolitical information delivered through seamless digital platforms and system integrations—turns overwhelming data into clear, actionable intelligence and insight. By filling critical information gaps, Janes helps customers analyse threats, accelerate decisions, and stay ahead of emerging challenges.

Job purpose:

Janes is seeking a Military Events Analyst to join the Current Military Intelligence Team and provide comprehensive and connected data on the military activities of global military forces.

The analyst will primarily work on data collection, processing, analysis and dissemination, along with supporting external qualitative analyses on a project-basis. In this role, the analyst is expected to contribute to Janes world-class interconnected current intelligence data by creating structured data and conducting qualitative analysis.

How you will contribute at Janes:

• Monitoring and recording military activity of countries using open-source tools

• Conducting OSINT investigations and transforming information into actionable data or intelligence analysis

• Monitoring low and high intensity conflicts

The ideal skills and experience for this role are:

• Excellent English writing and communication skills.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in international affairs, defence and security studies, or similar.

• Proven knowledge of NATO, Russian, or APAC tactical and operational military affairs. This role is NOT about geopolitics.

• Previous roles in academia/Think-tank (Defence and Security studies), government (Defence and Security), or companies who support Government in Defence and Security matters.

Desirable skills:

• Knowledge of military assets/platforms/doctrines/procedures, with military service or defence analyst experience beneficial.

• Open-source intelligence research skills, including familiarity with social media and imagery intelligence.

• Proficiency in one or more of the following language will be a plus: Russian, Farsi, Chinese, Korean

• Technical skills in Python, data visualisation, and GIS beneficial.

Benefits

India

• Annual health checkup

• National Pension scheme

• Meal Card (Sodexo)

• Healthy Half (0.5 day leave every 6 months for wellbeing)

• 22 days of annual leave

• Transportation allowance

• Day care / Creche Reimbursement

• Group Medical Claim

• Access to LinkedIn Learning

Life at Janes

We believe Janes is truly a great place to work. Our values and leadership code drive everything we do, and we understand that the right behaviours and culture will always result in the best outcomes for our customers, our colleagues, our shareholders, and our business. We provide a supportive, stretching, and dynamic environment with the ability for you to grow rapidly, both personally and professionally.

Janes is an inclusive and equal opportunities employer and encourages applications regardless of age, race, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity, or gender.

Although this role is advertised as full time, Janes believed that flexibility at work can provide many significant benefits both to our colleagues and the business. We already work in a hybrid style across all offices and regions and can support different ways of working and offer different flexible working arrangements. So, if you are interested and have any requirements or needs in the way you would like to work, please apply, and speak to us about this. We will always consider part time or flexible applications

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