Location: London, UK – in office
Salary: £32,000-£40,000 pro rata
Start date: ASAP
Contract: Part-time
Length of contract: Fixed – 1 year

The Role

The successful candidate will join Tech Against Terrorism as its first cataloguer to help build an archive of verified terrorist content. The archive will hold material produced by designated terrorist organisations that we currently alert to tech companies when found on their platforms through our Terrorist Content Analytics Platform (TCAP). The cataloguers will be responsible for the tagging, structuring, labelling, and sorting of the content before it can be included in the archive. The role will involve close collaboration with Tech Against Terrorism’s TCAP, OSINT, and Development teams. 

Please note, this role will require working with graphic and/or disturbing material. Given the nature of this role we are looking to hire two people to work part-time, limited to 4 hours per day and expect people to work from our offices in central London. 
Tech Against Terrorism offers support to limit and mitigate the effects of working with graphic content, including safe working practices and psychosocial support.

Responsibilities

• Categorise, label, and sort the content for the TCAP archive according to our archive taxonomy
• Recording the metadata in a consistent manner and with regard to best practice
• Maintain working relationships with both the development and TCAP team to ensure the data tagging and recording is in line with the development of the archive

Requirements

• Fluency in English and Arabic (reading and writing) and the ability to translate from one to the other
• Previous experience in working with graphic content and proven track record of mitigating the risks and effects of the work
• Ability to work meticulously with large volumes of information and handle several competing tasks with attention to detail
• Very good command of Excel 
• Ability to work independently with support from relevant teams at Tech Against Terrorism

Desirable

• Undergraduate or postgraduate degree in relevant field
• Knowledge on Terrorism and terrorist use of the internet
• Relevant experience of archiving graphic or disturbing content
• Experience in a data entry role
• A degree of familiarity with large language models and their uses in content classification.

Personal qualities

• Meticulous and consistent: you are able to handle vast amounts of data with attention to detail and record those in a consistent manner.
• Organisation and time management: you are well organised and are able to work on multiple projects to a very high quality, prioritising effectively
• Problem solving: you are solution oriented and innovative in how you approach challenges and blockers
• Analytical and innovative mindset: you identify gaps in existing processes and suggest improvements by regularly bringing new ideas
• Communication and team work: you have communication skills, and you communicate effectively and diplomatically with both colleagues and external stakeholders. You are able to work with a cross-functional team and ensure all relevant parties are involved when it comes to completing your work.
• Resilience: You are aware of your own wellbeing in the context of work and are able to respond to challenges with appropriate mitigation strategies

Benefits:

The work we do is hugely impactful and engaging, but it is our talented team which is our greatest asset. We take pride in providing a collaborative environment where everyone is encouraged and supported to do their best work. You’ll experience a fun and thriving culture, with the following benefits as part of life at Tech Against Terrorism:

• Friendly and supportive culture with all the benefits of working with public and private sector stakeholders whilst advancing the goals of an NGO
• Generous monthly training and conference budget to help you upskill
• Flexible working to support families and varying needs, including hybrid and flexible hours
• Option to work abroad up to one month of every year
• Top tier private healthcare
• 25 days holiday + UK Bank holidays
• Numerous perks, discounts and rewards
• Regular team-wide events held in-person and virtually
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension contribution scheme

How to apply

If you are interested, please apply here, by submitting your CV and a covering letter of no more than 300 words.

Interviews will take place on a rolling basis. Due to the volume of applications, only successful candidates will be contacted. For this role, the right to work in the UK is required.

If you have any questions about your application, please get in touch with our recruiter Annika Sanderson at recruitment@techagainstterrorism.org.