Senior Analyst – Organised Crime and People Trafficking Intelligence

ExTrac is a decision intelligence company used by governments, defence organisations, financial institutions, and corporates operating in complex, fast-moving environments. Our capabilities fuse curated data sources, domain-specific AI, and deep human expertise to transform information overload into clear, actionable foresight.

We are expanding our commercial footprint across North America. Our ambition is to become the analytical backbone that organisations rely on when geopolitical uncertainty becomes an opportunity or a strategic risk. More at extrac.ai.

The Role

As a Senior Analyst specialising in Organised Crime and People Trafficking Intelligence, you will play a key role in helping ExTrac identify, understand, and anticipate the activities of criminal networks that facilitate irregular migration and exploit vulnerable populations. Your analysis will directly support our intelligence products, data platform, and client decision-making by delivering timely, high-quality insights into one of the world’s fastest-evolving transnational security challenges.

What the job involves

Intelligence collection and analysis

• Monitor and assess organised crime and people trafficking trends globally, with a focus on migrant smuggling networks, trafficking facilitators, document fraud, and associated organised crime groups.
• Conduct monitoring of multilingual media, government reporting, law enforcement releases, social media, and open-source intelligence.
• Track changes in migration routes, border dynamics, criminal business models, enforcement activity, and geopolitical drivers influencing irregular migration.
• Identify emerging trends, key actors, and criminal networks for inclusion in ExTrac’s intelligence database and analytical products.
• Analyse the intersection between organised immigration crime and wider issues including corruption, sanctions evasion, financial crime, conflict, and terrorism where relevant.
• Lead or contribute to the production of daily, weekly, monthly, flash, and deep-dive intelligence reports focused on organised immigration crime, human trafficking, and transnational organised crime.
• Produce clear, evidence-based assessments that support operational and strategic decision-making for clients.
• Translate complex developments into concise, actionable intelligence products tailored to different audiences.
• Ensure analytical outputs maintain high standards of accuracy, consistency, and methodological rigour.

Data and knowledge management

• Monitor and flag new individuals, organisations, vessels, facilitators, and criminal entities for data curation.
• Label, validate, and edit intelligence records within ExTrac’s Data Studio.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of ExTrac’s organised crime datasets through quality assurance and structured data collection.
• Support the development of new data streams relating to organised immigration crime and associated illicit networks.

Leadership and collaboration

• Support the Team Lead by reviewing, editing, and quality-assuring analytical products.
• Mentor junior analysts by providing guidance on research methodology, analytical standards, and source validation.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and AI teams to improve analytical workflows and intelligence capabilities.
• Engage directly with customers to understand intelligence requirements, clarify analytical questions, and ensure reporting meets operational and strategic needs.
• Present analytical findings and respond to customer queries, building credibility through high-quality, timely, and evidence-based intelligence.
• Develop trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders by demonstrating subject matter expertise and analytical rigour.

Innovation and capability development

• Explore new methodologies for monitoring organised crime and people trafficking, including AI-assisted analysis, geospatial intelligence, network analysis, and OSINT techniques.
• Contribute to the development of new analytical frameworks and intelligence methodologies.
• Support translation of source material where relevant language skills are available.

You should apply if

• Organised crime, irregular migration, and trafficking networks are the subjects you already follow closely. This is the specialism you want to go deep on, not a rotation on the way to something else.
• You are a working analyst whose day-to-day toolkit includes OSINT, structured analytical techniques, and network or geospatial analysis, and you enjoy the craft of applying them, not just knowing them.
• Writing is one of your strengths. You can turn a fast-moving, ambiguous picture into a clear, evidence-based assessment under deadline, and you take pride in doing it well.
• You are at the stage in your career where you want more than producing your own analysis: reviewing others’ work, mentoring junior analysts, and engaging directly with customers all appeal to you.
• You thrive on operational tempo. Daily and flash reporting alongside longer deep dives suits how you like to work, and the pace energises rather than drains you.

Where this role can take you

• Grow into the recognised owner of ExTrac’s organised immigration crime capability, with the scope to shape one of the industry’s leading intelligence datasets as it scales.
• Stretch beyond reporting into capability building: designing new intelligence pipelines that integrate geospatial data, maritime activity, sanctions intelligence, and AI-enabled collection.
• Build a public profile in the field through thought leadership, specialist research, and representing ExTrac externally on migration trends and transnational criminal networks.
• Shape how AI changes intelligence work itself, championing new tools and methodologies across the Research & Analysis team and influencing how the whole function operates.

Requirements

• At least five years’ professional experience in intelligence analysis, organised crime, migration, border security, law enforcement, national security, or a related analytical field.
• Demonstrable experience researching and assessing transnational organised crime, including migrant smuggling, human trafficking, document fraud, illicit finance, or related criminal networks.
• Strong understanding and practical application of analytical techniques, for example, structured analytical techniques, OSINT methodologies, network analysis, geospatial analysis, or other intelligence collection and assessment frameworks.
• Outstanding written communication skills, with a proven track record of producing high-quality, actionable intelligence products and strategic assessments for operational or policy audiences under tight deadlines.
• A strong understanding of the legal and ethical considerations surrounding intelligence collection, open-source research, and data handling, including UK data protection legislation and responsible use of publicly available information.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams across government, law enforcement, border security, defence, intelligence, humanitarian organisations, or the private sector.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent intelligence priorities while maintaining analytical rigour and attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate complex criminal, geopolitical, and migration-related developments clearly to both specialist and non-specialist stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring junior analysts, reviewing analytical outputs, or leading small analytical projects is desirable.

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