Senior Analyst - LATAM Organised Crime

ExTrac is a decision intelligence company that focuses on providing actionable insights to governments and organizations. The Senior Analyst will drive the coverage of Latin America's organised crime, focusing on cartels and illicit economies, while also producing geopolitical analysis relevant to US national security concerns.

Responsibilities:

• Lead ExTrac's analytical coverage of serious and organised crime across Latin America, with particular depth on Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador
• Apply advanced OSINT methodologies to track cartel activity, criminal governance, trafficking routes, and armed group dynamics
• Monitor Spanish-language media, government reporting, law enforcement releases, and social media across the region as primary source material
• Produce geopolitical and strategic analysis of Latin American countries, covering political stability, governance, and regional diplomacy, as a complement to organised crime coverage
• Assess how state and non-state dynamics in the region interact, for example where governance gaps, corruption, or state weakness enable criminal activity to take hold or expand
• Track shifts in regional alignments and foreign influence in Latin America, and their implications for US national security interests
• Assess how organised crime trends in the region intersect with, and affect, US national security interests
• Identify emerging trends, key actors, and criminal networks before they are widely reported
• Own delivery of regular analytical products, daily, weekly, and deep-dive, derived from insight generated on ExTrac's platform
• Produce reporting that is ready to reach customers with minimal substantive editing
• Separate description from analysis in all outputs, apply the probability lexicon consistently, and maintain precise sourcing on platform, actor type, and alignment
• Surface and test competing hypotheses rather than confirming first assumptions, and be clear about where the evidence runs out
• Maintain clinical, dispassionate framing on politically-sensitive topics
• Manage multiple concurrent deliverables and adjust priorities transparently as the picture develops
• Curate data strategically, based on geopolitical understanding of the region and anticipated customer needs
• Verify data through cross-referencing and regional context; identify and help close data gaps that limit analytical coverage
• Improve platform tagging, categorisation, and source integration for Latin America organised crime data
• Maintain reference materials, country briefs, and actor databases covering the region
• Build and maintain deep regional expertise, spanning organised crime and wider geopolitical dynamics, that differentiates ExTrac's Latin America coverage from competitors
• Track key actors, criminal networks, and geopolitical dynamics across the region
• Contribute to external thought leadership, publications, briefings, or commentary, that reflects ExTrac's analytical brand in this space
• Engage directly with customers to understand requirements and present findings, building credibility through analytical quality and responsiveness
• Mentor junior analysts in research methods, analytical thinking, and house style
• Train junior analysts on data quality standards
• Conduct quality assurance reviews of others' outputs where relevant, and help document methodology so it is not held solely by one person