Political Data Specialist

Control Risks is a specialist risk consultancy that helps to create secure, compliant and resilient organisations in an age of ever-changing risk. Working across disciplines, technologies and geographies, everything we do is based on our belief that taking risks is essential to our clients’ success. We go beyond problem-solving and give our clients the insight and intelligence they need to realise opportunities and grow. From the boardroom to the remotest location, we have developed an unparalleled ability to bring order to chaos and reassurance to anxiety.

The Political Data Specialist will support Control Risks' Global Risk Analysis practice in developing and deploying data-driven solutions for business risk management. Successful candidates will be interested in and motivated by collecting and using data to analyse political, social, security, and regulatory questions facing companies and other types of organizations.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Support implementation of data-driven consulting products, including data collection, curation, and visualisation.
• Conception and development of methods and tools for conducting and delivering data-driven political risk analysis.
• Managing relationships with internal and external data providers and services, including other Control Risks practices.
• Monitoring trends and developments in available approaches and best practices for data analysis.

Minimum Requirements

• Relevant training or experience sourcing and building datasets, visualizing data, and conducting statistical analysis.
• Degree or relevant demonstrable subject-matter experience in political, geopolitical, social, security, and/or economic issues.
• Strong research, writing, and presentation skills.
• A good understanding of trends and best practices in applying emerging technologies to social science research and analysis.
• Relevant professional experience in a business context.
• Professional experience building dynamic dashboards and/or visualizing data products (e.g., PowerBI, Tableau).
• Professional experience manipulating data and conducting statistical analysis on structured and unstructured datasets (e.g., Python, R).

Control Risks offers a competitively positioned compensation and benefits package that is transparent and summarised in the full job offer. We operate a discretionary global bonus scheme that incentivises and rewards individuals based on company and individual performance. Control Risks supports hybrid working arrangements, wherever possible, that emphasise the value of in-person time together - in the office and with our clients - while continuing to support flexible and remote working. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us and are fully committed to equal treatment, free from discrimination, of all candidates throughout our recruitment process.