Barbaricum is hiring a
Media Monitoring Analyst

Summary

Barbaricum is hiring a Part-Time Media Monitoring Analyst to join their team supporting various government offices. The position involves overnight weekend work, analyzing media coverage, and producing reports. The candidate should have relevant experience in media monitoring or communications.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree (communications, journalism, media, national security, criminal justice, sociology, or international affairs/political science preferred)
• 2+ years of experience in media monitoring and analysis or relevant communications, media, journalism, or open-source/PAI research experience
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
• A problem-solver
• Attention to detail under pressure and time constraints
• Experience with Microsoft 365 (Outlook, Word, Excel)
• Experience with Google Docs and Google Sheets

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver curated, high-quality daily news reports and/or clippings on time to government leadership and key stakeholders
• Work with a team of analysts to identify, collect, and report news, broadcast, and social media reports or insights as applicable using software tools, websites, and other open-source research methods
• Analyze the media landscape or specific topic areas or stories of interest to provide key takeaways and recommendations to clients
• Attend and support tool or analyst training as required

Preferred Qualifications

• MA/MS
• Experience working on government contracts, especially consumer finance, criminal justice, law enforcement, military, veterans, nuclear energy, and regulation
• Demonstrated experience writing and editing to produce concise summaries and analyses of news topics with minimal formatting or grammar errors
• Experience developing advanced Boolean logic to inform data queries and/or advanced Google search skills

Benefits

• Hands-on experience with Google automation, Meltwater, LexisNexis, and TVEyes
• Data analytics/text as data experience (Python preferred)
• Looker/Tableau experience