Tactical Report jobs

<p>Tactical Report publishes reports and news on the defense and armaments sector in the Middle East and North Africa, for readers in government and in decision-making roles within the sector.</p> <p>We are looking for a reporter able to reach the information needed to cover developments in that sector and to break exclusive stories our readers can use. Our readers act on what we publish, which is why accuracy matters more to us than speed, and quality more than quantity.</p> <p>The reporter's work is investigative: establishing what has happened and what may happen, and helping our analysts understand events and anticipate what follows.</p> <h4>Responsibilities</h4> <ul> <li>Developing and growing a reliable source network close to decision-makers</li> <li>Breaking exclusive stories for our advisory publications, with responsibility and an unwavering commitment to accuracy and objectivity</li> <li>Verifying information against the required standards before passing it to editors</li> <li>Working closely with our editors and researchers on the selection of topics, sources, and treatment</li> </ul> <h4>Requirements Essential</h4> <ul> <li>No less than three years covering the defense and armaments sector in the Middle East and North Africa</li> <li>Enough experience to distinguish routine developments from significant ones</li> <li>The ability to cover a specific defense domain land, sea, or air or at least one country of the Middle East and North Africa</li> <li>The ability to engage with decision-making circles lawfully</li> <li>A grounding in geopolitical affairs and an understanding of economic and fiscal policy</li> <li>Fluency in Arabic or English</li> </ul> <h4><br></h4><ul> </ul><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><ul> <li>No less than three years covering the defense and armaments sector in the Middle East and North Africa</li> <li>Enough experience to distinguish routine developments from significant ones</li> <li>The ability to cover a specific defense domain land, sea, or air or at least one country of the Middle East and North Africa</li> <li>The ability to engage with decision-making circles lawfully</li> <li>A grounding in geopolitical affairs and an understanding of economic and fiscal policy</li> <li>Fluency in Arabic or English</li> </ul> <p>A plus, but not required</p> <ul> <li>The ability to cover one or more countries outside the region but closely tied to it, such as the United States, France, Italy, Germany, China, Japan, or South Korea</li> <li>The ability to respond to urgent information requests</li> </ul>

<p>Tactical Report publishes intelligence reports on the Middle East and North Africa, designed for senior officials and government decision-makers focused on geopolitics, defense, energy, finance, and economic matters.</p> <p>We are currently seeking a reporter with access to the information needed to cover a specific field, who can provide exclusive news and contribute to our team of editors and researchers.</p> <p>Our readers take the information we publish and act upon it; therefore, accuracy is more important to us than speed, and far more important than volume or quantity.</p> <p>This is the role of investigative field reporting. The reporter's task is to establish what has happened and what is to come, while our analysts handle the analysis and forecasting.</p> <h4>Job Responsibilities</h4> <ul> <li>Develop and cultivate a primary source network</li> <li>Provide exclusive reporting for our advisory publications with responsibility and an unwavering commitment to accuracy and objectivity.</li> <li>Verify all content according to our editorial standards</li> <li>Work closely with our editors and researchers in selecting topics, sources, and coverage</li> </ul><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><ul> <li>Three to five years of journalistic experience in the Middle East and North Africa, with a track record of original, source-based reporting</li> <li>Experience in distinguishing between ordinary and meaningful developments</li> <li>Fluency in Arabic and/or English</li> <li>Ability to cover at least one country in the region and to engage with its decision-making circles in accordance with the law</li> <li>Genuine depth in one of the following areas: geopolitics, government decision-making, and an understanding of economic and fiscal policies; defense and security; energy.</li> </ul> <p>The following are considered a plus, but are not requirements:</p> <ul> <li>The ability to cover at least one country outside the Arab region but closely related to it, such as the United States, France, Italy, Iran, Turkey, China, South Korea, or Japan;</li> <li>The ability to answer urgent requests</li> </ul>

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> Responsibilities Analysis <ul> <li>Assessing and analysing situations</li> <li>Reading events in depth what they mean for the parties involved</li> <li>Treating information requests as the highest priority</li> <li>Scrutinising reporter filings, archive material, and documents</li> <li>Distinguishing established information from inferred information, and from what is untrue or imprecise</li> </ul> Editing <ul> <li>Drafting copy on the basis of open-source reporting (OSINT) and material filed by reporters (HUMINT)</li> <li>Holding the verification standard for news and information, and determining its significance</li> <li>Giving sensitive information the weight it requires, and referring it to the Editor-in-Chief before publication</li> </ul> Sector specialisation <p>The Editor should have deep knowledge of the defense and armaments sector in the Middle East and North Africa, in particular:</p> <ul> <li>Arms deals and decision chains</li> <li>Force structure and modernisation programmes</li> <li>Local military manufacturing arrangements</li> <li>The difference between contracts and memoranda of understanding</li> <li>Defense-industrial relationships and supplier politics</li> <li>Security and military institutions and the decision-makers within them</li> </ul> Geopolitical grounding <p>Required regardless of sector. The Editor should be able to:</p> <ul> <li>Map actual decision-making authority in each state of the region, particularly where it differs from the formal structure</li> <li>Follow that authority's regional and international relationships and track developments as they happen</li> <li>Read state behaviour as the product of domestic considerations, not external ones alone</li> <li>Distinguish between the behaviours of the state's decision-makers</li> <li>Analyse a given position under uncertainty and identify its implications</li> </ul> Requirements Essential <ul> <li>Experience: no less than three years working as an editor, researcher, or analyst on defense and armaments</li> <li>The ability to verify information before publication, and to work with reporters to confirm it</li> <li>Drafting reports in English, with samples of the applicant's own previous reports attached to the application</li> <li>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</li> </ul> A plus <ul> <li>Deep knowledge of other sectors such as energy, economy, finance and business</li> <li>Comfort with figures: financial data, trade and procurement numbers</li> <li>French, or another language relevant to Tactical Report's work</li> </ul><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><ul> <li>Experience: no less than three years working as an editor, researcher, or analyst on defense and armaments</li> <li>The ability to verify information before publication, and to work with reporters to confirm it</li> <li>Drafting reports in English, with samples of the applicant's own previous reports attached to the application</li> <li>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</li> </ul> <p>A plus</p> <ul> <li>Deep knowledge of other sectors such as energy, economy, finance and business</li> <li>Comfort with figures: financial data, trade and procurement numbers</li> <li>French, or another language relevant to Tactical Report's work</li> </ul>