Senior Associate, Strategic Intelligence (Cybersecurity)

Location: Cape Town, South Africa; hybrid with a minimum of two days per week in the office. Candidates must have permission to work in South Africa by the start of employment.

Company

hirify.global is a global intelligence and cybersecurity consultancy helping companies, governments, and private individuals solve complex challenges through intelligence and analysis.

What you will do

• Manage a small team of analysts maintaining the Global Security Insight platform.
• Provide editorial oversight for 220+ country risk reports and scores, security alerts, and quarterly political violence, security, and geopolitical bulletins.
• Oversee ad hoc threat intelligence and analysis requests for global clients.
• Coordinate a 24/7 intelligence-support rota for crisis responders and provide analytical and presentation support to key stakeholders.
• Manage analyst training and professional development.
• Liaise with technical support to maintain and improve platform functionality, while supporting additional client work as needed.

Requirements

• Postgraduate degree or equivalent.
• 4–6 years of experience in a similar role, including at least two years managing a team.
• Experience in threat intelligence research, writing, and analysis.
• Experience coordinating, managing, and editing analytical and intelligence outputs.
• Experience delivering analysis through structured methodologies, including threat assessments, scenario assessments, or horizon scanning.
• Strong research, analysis, and writing skills, with excellent planning, organisational skills, and attention to detail.
• Ability to work unsupervised, under pressure, and to tight deadlines while managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Proactive approach, willingness to work outside the job specification when required, and excellent interpersonal skills.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering 24/7 threat monitoring.
• Risk management qualifications.
• Language skills besides English.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working and flexible working hours.
• 23 days of annual holiday in addition to public holidays, increasing by one day per year of service up to 28 days.
• Pension contribution matching up to 7%, with financial education.
• Fertility treatment leave, maternity leave with full and half pay, and six weeks of fully paid paternity leave.
• Medical Aid and Gap Cover with Discovery Health, Headspace access, and an employee assistance programme for employees and immediate family.

Hiring process

• Submit a CV and cover letter through the specified application route.