EU SEEKS 'STRESS-RESISTANT' INTELLIGENCE OFFICER ► http://euobserver.com/9/30843/?rk=1
► EU Observer ► Stringer: Frank Slijper / Campaign Against Arms Trade / Groningen NL / [email protected] Sep 20 2010 ► Sep 20. The EU is hiring three junior experts to join its intelligence-sharing bureau, the Joint Situation Centre (SitCen), on top of a new director for the outfit, with the official job descriptions shedding some light onto the secretive body's work. The posts - a Deployable Security Information Officer, an Open Source Intelligence Analyst and a Security Information Officer - are to be filled at the same time as the new directorship, with the deadline for applications closing last Friday (16 September). The job advertisements, seen by EUobserver, were circulated to EU institutions and member states' foreign ministries in recent weeks, but were not made available to the general public. The deployable officer, according to the official notice, is to "travel to potential crisis or conflict areas to overtly gather political and security information to support early crisis management decisions and to supplement information and assessments from other sources." The candidate is to have a diplomatic, intelligence or media background and to "have experience in information collection and evaluation in areas with a high degree of tension." The right man or woman must also "be prepared to travel extensively to potential crisis areas and to do so at short notice" and to "be physically fit and stress-resistant. Able to withstand potentially physically and psychologically harsh working environment." The bulk of SitCen's work pertains to drafting security reports out of its 100-person-strong office in the EU quarter in Brussels. EU diplomats say there is no political appetite among member states to create a genuine European Intelligence Service which carries out covert operations. But SitCen officers do travel to hotspots to help EU delegations carry out research. When the earthquake struck in Haiti earlier this year, the then SitCen director, William Shapcott, personally accompanied EU foreign relations chief Catherine Ashton, to the Caribbean country to seek information. The job advertisement for the new SitCen director also mentions that the candidate must "be fit and ready to travel to areas of crisis." Out of the other two junior jobs up for grabs, the open source analyst is to "follow up on open and confidential sources of information relating to the political and security situation in areas where the EU has launched a CSDP [Common Security and Defence Policy] mission or may be considering doing so." The new Security Information Officer will focus on Asia and will do "topical Internet research in response to requests for information." The ideal candidate is to speak Urdu, Persian, Russian or Mandarin. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
