Military Advisor- Sentiment Analysis; Part Time​/Remote; Mission Assurance

Summary

Requisition Number: 28490. Remote, part‑time position requiring 51–75% travel. Anticipated salary range: $106,124 – $170,000. This role is for a Military Advisor – Sentiment Analysis who will provide expert guidance and support to DoD clients. The candidate must be able to deploy up to 50% of the time and obtain a Secret clearance.

• Provide expert guidance on sentiment analysis methodologies, tools, and best practices for DoD personnel and partner organizations.
• Design and implement sentiment analysis frameworks to support operational intelligence requirements.
• Advise selection, deployment, and optimization of sentiment analysis technologies and platforms.
• Conduct advanced analytical assessments of population sentiment across multiple information environments.
• Support tactical and strategic decision‑making through actionable sentiment intelligence products.
• Develop, deliver, and maintain comprehensive training curricula on sentiment analysis techniques and applications.
• Provide instruction on data capture, processing, and analytical techniques for large‑scale data scraping and collection.
• Create practical exercises, case studies, and hands‑on training scenarios relevant to DoD mission sets.
• Train personnel on data collection methodologies, processing workflows, and analytical techniques.
• Assess student competency and provide detailed feedback on analytical products.
• Maintain current awareness of emerging technologies and incorporate innovations into training programs.
• Execute large‑scale data collection and web‑scraping operations from open‑source and authorized platforms.
• Process and normalize multi‑source datasets including social media, news feeds, forums, and digital communications.
• Apply NLP, machine learning, and computational linguistics techniques.
• Develop custom scripts and tools to enhance data collection and processing efficiency.
• Ensure data integrity, quality control, and compliance with legal and ethical standards.
• Identify and track population sentiment trends, narrative patterns, and information influence operations.
• Produce clear, concise intelligence products tailored to diverse stakeholder requirements.
• Brief senior leadership on sentiment trends, emerging threats, and operational recommendations.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including OSINT analysts, data scientists, and operations personnel.
• Perform additional duties as assigned or required.

• Minimum 9 years relevant experience with a bachelor’s degree in a related field; 7 years with a master’s; 4 years with a PhD/Juris Doctor; or high school diploma and 13 years of experience.
• Proven experience in sentiment analysis, social media analysis, or OSINT.
• Background in instruction or training.
• Prior support to DoD, Intelligence Community, or federal law enforcement.
• Experience with large‑scale data collection, web scraping, and data processing.
• Proficiency with sentiment analysis platforms such as Brandwatch, Crimson Hexagon, Synthesio, Palantir.
• Advanced programming skills in Python, R, or similar.
• Experience with web scraping tools (Beautiful Soup, Scrapy, Selenium, APIs).
• Strong NLP skills (NLTK, spaCy, transformers, BERT).
• Proficiency in data visualization (Tableau, Power BI, matplotlib, D3.js).
• Experience with big data tools (Hadoop, Spark) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure).
• Knowledge of SQL and No
  
  SQL databases.
• Deep understanding of social media ecosystems and online communities.
• Familiarity with information operations, influence campaigns, and narrative analysis.
• Ability to identify trends and anomalies in large datasets.
• Strong critical thinking and problem‑solving in dynamic environments.
• Knowledge of DoD data regulations, privacy laws, GDPR, and ethical data practices.
• Willingness to deploy up to 50% of the time as required by mission needs.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.

• Bachelor’s in Data Science, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Intelligence Studies, or Social Sciences.
• Master’s degree highly desired.
• 5+ years of professional experience in sentiment analysis, social media analysis, or related OSINT disciplines.
• 3+ years of experience in an…