Tactical Report's readers are senior officials and decision-makers. What they need is not coverage of a sector so much as an understanding of how it bears on the geopolitical situation around it. An arms deal is an alliance signal before it is a military capability. A route for exporting or importing military equipment is a channel of influence, not merely a commercial arrangement.

The Editor is expected to produce well-grounded assessments on defense and armaments, to write them up as daily or weekly reports, and to publish them.

• Assessing and analysing situations
• Reading events in depth what they mean for the parties involved
• Treating information requests as the highest priority
• Scrutinising reporter filings, archive material, and documents
• Distinguishing established information from inferred information, and from what is untrue or imprecise

• Drafting copy on the basis of open-source reporting (OSINT) and material filed by reporters (HUMINT)
• Holding the verification standard for news and information, and determining its significance
• Giving sensitive information the weight it requires, and referring it to the Editor-in-Chief before publication

The Editor should have deep knowledge of the defense and armaments sector in the Middle East and North Africa, in particular:

• Arms deals and decision chains
• Force structure and modernisation programmes
• Local military manufacturing arrangements
• The difference between contracts and memoranda of understanding
• Defense-industrial relationships and supplier politics
• Security and military institutions and the decision-makers within them

Required regardless of sector. The Editor should be able to:

• Map actual decision-making authority in each state of the region, particularly where it differs from the formal structure
• Follow that authority's regional and international relationships and track developments as they happen
• Read state behaviour as the product of domestic considerations, not external ones alone
• Distinguish between the behaviours of the state's decision-makers
• Analyse a given position under uncertainty and identify its implications

• Experience: no less than three years working as an editor, researcher, or analyst on defense and armaments
• The ability to verify information before publication, and to work with reporters to confirm it
• Drafting reports in English, with samples of the applicant's own previous reports attached to the application
• Deep familiarity with a specific defense domain land, sea, or air at regional level or in one or more countries of the region, to be stated in the application

• Deep knowledge of other sectors such as energy, economy, finance and business
• Comfort with figures: financial data, trade and procurement numbers
• French, or another language relevant to Tactical Report's work

Desired Candidate Profile

• Experience: no less than three years working as an editor, researcher, or analyst on defense and armaments
• The ability to verify information before publication, and to work with reporters to confirm it
• Drafting reports in English, with samples of the applicant's own previous reports attached to the application
• Deep familiarity with a specific defense domain land, sea, or air at regional level or in one or more countries of the region, to be stated in the application

A plus

• Deep knowledge of other sectors such as energy, economy, finance and business
• Comfort with figures: financial data, trade and procurement numbers
• French, or another language relevant to Tactical Report's work