Public Safety Source Analyst - Atrium Health Southeast Region FT Days

Overview

Job Summary  

Scan the external threat environment to recognize reasonably foreseeable risks, identify vulnerabilities & indicators, and establish & monitor triggers to provide organizational early warning to enable appropriate prevention & mitigation. Knowledge derived from analysis will be shaped into products which inform decision-making in the areas of Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management program, security/public safety policies, training, access control, command center operations, and investigations for the ultimate purpose of making risk-rationalized recommendations for the best deployment of resources and mitigation strategies to contribute to the safest environment possible at Advocate Health Sites and surrounding areas.

Essential Functions

1. Perform independent analysis of criminal activity and relevant incident reports at Advocate Health sites and surrounding areas. Design, establish, maintain, and exploit databases to create predictive tools to reduce/prevent criminal activity. Prepare periodic statistical, evaluative, and predictive reports and presentations to communicate findings derived from analysis with a focus on maturing Data to Knowledge.
2. Design, establish, maintain and/or exploit databases to create predictive tools to reduce/prevent criminal activity. Create products – written and graphic -- derived from multiple sources that are aligned with either understanding or mitigating specific and relevant risks that might disrupt or degrade the ability to deliver high quality healthcare. Products will have a focused and relevant orientation to either inform or gain a decision.
3. Establish indications & warnings to enable recognition of changes to standing threat levels and associated preparations. Develop criteria for events which trigger immediate notifications and mitigation. Recognize when to disseminate raw intelligence information reports to various stakeholders (Legal, Risk, Operations, Human Resources, service-line deliverers, etc.) based on a detailed understanding of mission, risk, probability, and potential impact.
4. Identify trends and make recommendations to decision-makers on preventive, deterrent or corrective measures that could be taken to counter indicators trending unfavorably. Coordinate with public safety officers and leaders to merge statistical data with field observations and a clear understanding of the risk environment to formulate effective and culturally aligned security strategies and tactics.
5. Support system, regional, and site Threat Management teams with preparedness tools to see, understand, and monitor recurring threats. Enhance a social media monitoring program to support indications & warning for steady-state threats and as an instrument for dynamic/emerging threat use cases. Contribute to personal protection plans stemming from restraining orders, threat expressions, and other risk-identifying programs with a focus on seeking to prevent workplace violence.
6. Scope includes assisting investigative and behavioral threat assessment and management efforts, identifying process improvement opportunities, making policy recommendations, identifying training needs, and providing substantive input to the departments' crime prevention and security awareness programs.
7. Achieve and maintain subject matter expertise on the full capabilities of multiple open-source research methods.
8. Create time-sensitive products to depict a common operating picture during incidents, in response to emerging threats, and during incident/emergency/crisis response.
9. Create time-sensitive products to depict a common operating picture during incidents, in response to emerging threats, and during incident/emergency/crisis response.
10. Collaborate with other intelligence and law enforcement organizations in formal interagency committees, conferences, task forces, fusion centers, and work groups -- potentially gaining insights which would contribute to changing site security postures and benefitting from Best Practices.

Physical Requirements  

• This position requires travel, therefore, will be exposed to weather and road conditions. 
• Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job.
• Exposed to a normal office environment.
• Must be able to sit, stand, walk, and drive throughout the workday.
• Must be able to sit, stand, walk, and drive throughout the workday.
• Protective clothing must be worn as necessary.
• Valid US driver’s license and ability to meet and maintain AH driving standards.

Education, Experience and Certifications  

• Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice, Applied Intelligence, or related field
• Typically requires 3 years of experience in crime or intelligence analysis