Strategic Trade Controls Research Analyst

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The Emerging Threats and Technologies Division, part of the National Security Directorate, consists of over 400 scientists, engineers, and analysts with backgrounds in cyber, nuclear, intelligence, policy, data science, and other fields. We work in interdisciplinary project teams to provide innovative concepts that integrate policy, analytics, science, and technology into unique solutions

PNNL seeks a Strategic Trade Controls Research Analyst with broad experience in strategic trade management and nonproliferation to support projects for federal sponsors, including the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, the Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Commerce. The successful candidate will contribute to research, analysis, technical assistance, and international capacity-building activities spanning strategic trade control policy and institutional frameworks, control lists and commodity classification, licensing and transaction risk assessment, industry and academic outreach, compliance, enforcement, and trade-data analysis.

The position requires the ability to apply strategic trade control concepts across different countries, institutional settings, commodities, and technologies. The candidate will analyze complex technical, regulatory, transactional, and programmatic information; develop evidence-based findings and recommendations; and communicate effectively with U.S. government sponsors, interagency partners, foreign government officials, technical experts, industry representatives, and academic institutions. Responsibilities may include developing and delivering workshops and exercises, preparing analytical and technical products, supporting program and project planning, and coordinating activities involving multiple organizations and areas of expertise.

• Conduct research and analysis concerning national and international strategic trade control laws, regulations, policies, institutional arrangements, and implementation practices.
• Analyze commodities, software, and technologies to determine the applicability of national and multilateral control lists and support technically defensible classification determinations.
• Support licensing and transaction reviews, including assessment of end uses, end users, intermediaries, destinations, transaction structures, proliferation concerns, diversion indicators, and other risk factors.
• Assess strategic trade control systems and identify practical opportunities to strengthen policy development, licensing, compliance, outreach, enforcement, and interagency coordination.
• Apply strategic trade control principles across a range of dual-use, military, proliferation-sensitive and emerging commodities and technologies, including unmanned and autonomous systems, working with technical specialists as needed.
• Specific responsibilities will vary based on the candidate’s expertise and evolving programmatic needs. The…