Cultural Subject Matter Expert

**Position Overview** Clear Fracture provides specialized intelligence services, open-source research capabilities, and Research-as-a-Service solutions to government and commercial customers. Our offerings combine internally developed open-source intelligence and artificial intelligence capabilities with experienced analysts who possess deep regional, linguistic, and cultural expertise. Clear Fracture is seeking a China Cultural and Regional Intelligence Subject Matter Expert to provide authoritative cultural, political, social, linguistic, and operational context in support of intelligence and mission requirements. The successful candidate will help customers understand developments within the People's Republic of China and the broader Chinese-speaking environment by integrating regional expertise with disciplined intelligence analysis and advanced open-source research. This role requires the ability to evaluate complex and sometimes conflicting information, identify relevant cultural and regional implications, and communicate assessments clearly to operational and strategic audiences. **Key Responsibilities** - Provide expert analysis of Chinese history, culture, politics, society, institutions, language, and current events. - Analyze political, military, economic, technological, information, and socio-cultural developments affecting assigned mission areas. - Apply cultural and regional expertise to intelligence assessments, operational planning, threat analysis, targeting support, and trend identification. - Conduct advanced research using publicly available information, social media, commercial datasets, specialized research platforms, and other authorized digital information environments. - Evaluate source credibility, information reliability, bias, provenance, and relevance in accordance with established analytic tradecraft. - Integrate information from disparate sources to characterize the mission environment and assess threats, risks, opportunities, and potential second-order effects. - Produce clear, concise, and well-supported written intelligence products, briefings, assessments, and executive-level summaries. - Monitor significant regional events and provide timely analysis of their operational, strategic, or organizational implications. - Review strategic and tactical guidance relevant to cyberspace, counterintelligence, and broader intelligence operations. - Support intelligence planning activities and recommend adjustments to collection, research, and production priorities. - Develop and maintain intelligence task lists, production schedules, and requirements-tracking mechanisms. - Coordinate intelligence production requests, responsibilities, dependencies, deadlines, and deliverables across mission partners and functional teams. - Brief customers and internal stakeholders on complex regional developments, analytic judgments, confidence levels, and intelligence gaps. - Collaborate with technical personnel, analysts, linguists, data scientists, and operational stakeholders to ensure that products are culturally informed, analytically rigorous, and responsive to mission requirements. **Minimum Qualifications** - Active Top Secret clearance with eligibility for access to Sensitive Compartmented Information. Current TS/SCI access may be required before performance begins. - Eight or more years of professional experience providing cultural, regional, linguistic, geopolitical, or related advisory services. - Five or more years of intelligence analysis experience supporting operational, strategic, defense, national security, law enforcement, or comparable mission environments. - Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution. - Four additional years of directly relevant professional experience may be considered in lieu of a bachelor's degree. - Demonstrated expert knowledge of Chinese history, culture, politics, society, institutions, media, and current events acquired through substantial regional immersion, advance…