Roles and teams

We deliver an intelligence advantage for the nation by working together on important challenges. We are analysts, technologists, generalists, enablers, designers and planners. Above all, we are intelligence professionals who serve the nation.

Welcome to the team

We have positions to suit a wide range of skills, experiences and backgrounds. We have some highly specialised roles but most of our staff apply their expertise in one of the following ways:

Analysts: Our analysts turn information into insight by rigorously synthesising and distilling what our customers need to know – this can range from interrogating publicly available information to writing on long-term challenges to briefing senior decision-makers on breaking events.
Technologists: Our IT planners, architects and practitioners work together to ensure the Office of National Intelligence and the broader National intelligence Community maintain leading edge technological and data capabilities.
Intelligence coordination: Our coordinators focus on how the National Intelligence Community can most effectively work together on our missions, our capabilities and our engagement with others.
Intelligence enablers: Our work would not be possible without the professional support provided by our intelligence production and delivery team, creative designers, trainers, psychologists, finance and human resources professionals, vetting analysts, executive support officers and our broader corporate team.

Find your role

If you have particular skills or experience, find out how you could apply them in different roles across the organisation. Start by finding the statement that most closely matches your skills, background and interests:

"I have immersed myself in a different culture, language or society"

You could work as an analyst writing assessments for senior members of the government or analysing public and online discourse. You could also use and deepen your language skills.

Our all-source analysts provide the Prime Minister and other members of the National Security Committee of Cabinet with intelligence-based advice, analysis and assessments. They write and brief on matters of political, strategic or economic significance to Australia, drawing on all sources of information available to the Australian Government. This includes material covertly collected by other intelligence agencies, diplomatic reporting, open source intelligence and insights we gather from talking to world-leading experts in business, academia and think tanks.

Our all-source analysts also support mission coordination by working with other members of the National Intelligence Community on how best to address the Government’s intelligence requirements. We also have a number of dedicated mission coordinators who focus on our highest priority and most complex missions.

"I want my technological skills to make a difference"

You could help us create the next generation of intelligence capabilities, including through working on some of the most complex IT projects in Australia or by applying emerging research to critical security and intelligence challenges. We need people who understand the emerging technology landscape, can work with researchers to stimulate intelligence-focused innovation and drive the uptake of new technology and processes.

Our technologists work on how the National Intelligence Community can build game-changing common platforms and capabilities, such as secure cloud platforms and specialised tools. We need information architects, business analysts and project managers who understand how to design, integrate and build flexible and scalable systems.
Our innovation and research leads work with emerging cutting-edge technology companies and Australia’s academic research sector to identify innovation solutions for the National Intelligence Community's strategic science and technology challenges. You can find out more about their work in the Cyber and Critical Technology Intelligence Centre.(Opens in a new tab/window)

"I want to extend my scientific, economic or financial expertise"

You could use your expertise to understand international trends, identify emerging issues and explain complex concepts succinctly to senior decision-makers. You have the opportunity to engage with world-leading experts and to work at the intersection between policy, intelligence, research and economic perspectives.

Our economic and scientific analysts work in our all-source analytical teams using their specialised knowledge to inform their intelligence assessments, analysis and briefing. They look at how economic and scientific developments will intersect with and affect strategic and security challenges. Our economic team brings together people who have worked in Australian and international finance, banking and economic roles. Our scientific specialists are drawn from academia, private sector research backgrounds and across government.

"I am a generalist or a policy officer looking for a new challenge"

Generalists and skilled policy officers work in roles across our organisation. We offer the opportunity to rapidly build an understanding of how the National intelligence Community works and to take responsibility for interesting and important portfolios of work with considerable autonomy.

A vital part of our work is building and strengthening our connections to others. We value individuals who can build relationships quickly then sustain and grow them over time. We have teams focused on how we collaborate with the rest of the National Intelligence Community on common issues, on how we work with international partners and how we engage with businesses, universities and the public.

"I have specialised professional skills I want to use in novel ways"

We need psychologists, lawyers, procurement and project managers, human resource specialists, IT and information professionals, executive assistants and couriers. We offer the chance to use your skills in new ways to achieve exciting outcomes that have critical and significant consequences for the nation.

One of our primary tasks is to convey information to our customers in the most effective form we can. This increasingly involves us using innovative graphic and multimedia approaches to convey our analysis and messages. Our creative team works closely with analysts and staff across the organisation to craft rich visual content in tight timeframes for senior readers.
Our work can be highly sensitive, so the honesty and integrity of our people is essential. That’s why we rely on our vetting analysts to identify those who can keep Australia’s secrets safe.

As a vetting officer, you’ll make recommendations on individuals' suitability to hold security clearances and work with us. To do this, you’ll conduct in-depth interviews, analyse information and produce detailed reports.

Central to the role is connecting with other people, as well as maintaining the privacy and dignity of those you assess. Everything you do will support an increasingly diverse workforce and the safety of Australia.
We are an information-based enterprise so need robust systems for capturing, tracking and managing the flow of information in, around and out of our organisation, while managing the unique security requirements of our work. Our information specialists design, build and manage the systems we rely on each day to deliver secure information for the Australian Government.
Our work is defined by our people. We need to attract, recruit and retain the best talent if we are going to produce the insights and innovation we need to deliver on our mission. As part of this, we are committed to developing innovative recruitment and retention strategies and providing the highest level of care and support for our staff and their families.

We also work with our partners across the National Intelligence Community on common human resource challenges, including workforce planning, diversity and inclusion initiatives and talent attraction.

To do this work, we need human resources professionals who want to support and grow highly talented individuals. We offer unique, challenging work in an organisation where human resources skills are recognised and valued.