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Position: Trust and Safety Solutions Fellow
Location: Remote/Flexible. Must be authorized to work in the United States.
Status: Part-time, temporary, 8 weeks with possibility to extend
Reports to: Director of Trust and Safety Solutions
Salary: $30/hr up to 20hrs per week
Deadline to apply: 1 May 2026
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About GIFCT
The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)’s mission is to prevent terrorists and violent extremists from exploiting digital platforms; it envisions a world in which the technology sector marshals its collective creativity and capacity to render terrorists and violent extremists ineffective online. In every aspect of our work, GIFCT aims to be transparent, inclusive, and uphold human rights.
Position Summary
Are you motivated by the mission of preventing terrorists and violent extremists from exploiting digital platforms?
The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) is seeking a part-time Fellow to support the development of practical solutions to counter coordinated cross-platform abuse by terrorist and violent extremist actors. The Fellow will work alongside GIFCT staff to fortify organizational posture on various threat trends such as ‘nihilistic violent extremism’ and hybrid harms modalities. This will include analysis of various legal and academic definitions of terrorism to ensure GIFCT solutions can apply across various circumstances and threat surfaces.
Responsibilities:
• Researching and authoring user-facing content on topics such as terrorist and violent extremist events and threat trends;
• Contribute to the development of a behavioral framework for responding to and analyzing ideologically ambiguous violent actors;
• Collaborating with GIFCT staff to shape user experience of GIFCT trust & safety solutions;
• Assist GIFCT staff with regular functions of incident response as needed;
• Participating in organizational projects as needed;
• Attending relevant meetings and events; and
• Assisting with GIFCT deliverables and external-facing documents.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Interest in the intersections of terrorism/violent extremism and technology;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills;
• Experience performing open source intelligence/research;
• Excellent organizational skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience analyzing terrorist or violent extremist actors with ambiguous or idiosyncratic motivations.
• Experience analyzing violent actors whose conduct incorporates elements of terrorism and violent extremism with adjacent harm types.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, adapt, or operationally use analytic frameworks designed to categorize terrorist and violent extremist activities;
• Experience breaking down complex topics into easily explained and practical best practices;
• Demonstrated commitment to human rights frameworks as a core analytic dimension to develop threat mitigation solutions;
• Familiarity with standards and thresholds for assessing threat credibility used by law enforcement, trust & safety teams, or similar organizations;
• Familiarity with GIFCT.
How to Apply:
Please send your resume and in lieu of a cover letter please submit answers to the below assessment to [email protected] noting “TSS Fellow” in the subject of your email:
Writing Assessment:
Identify a violent event (attack, plot, etc) from the past three years which does not cleanly fit into existing frameworks for analyzing TVE. This should be an event whose inclusion in the category of TVE is genuinely contested amongst practitioners. Briefly explain why you selected this event, and what makes it analytically interesting (max 300 words)
• Present the strongest case you can for why this event should be considered TVE. Use existing definitions and frameworks to draw parallels to the facts of this event (max 300 words).
• Present the strongest case you can for why this event should not be considered TVE. Explain what if any alternative legal or analytic categories better capture this event (max 300 words).
In your response, please refrain from including your personal conclusion as to whether you believe the event you selected should be analyzed as TVE. This exercise is intended to demonstrate your ability to weigh two opposing arguments, and identify key tensions in existing frameworks for analyzing TVE.
We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. GIFCT is an equal opportunity employer. No applicant will be denied equal opportunity for consideration because of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, status as a parent, national origin, age, disability (physical or mental), family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit based factors.
Due to the very high number of applications we receive when positions are posted, we are only able to respond directly to candidates with whom we wish to move forward in the interview process.
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Location: Remote/Flexible. Must be authorized to work in the United States.
Status: Part-time, temporary, 8 weeks with possibility to extend
Reports to: Director of Trust and Safety Solutions
Salary: $30/hr up to 20hrs per week
Deadline to apply: 1 May 2026
____________________________________________________________
About GIFCT
The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT)’s mission is to prevent terrorists and violent extremists from exploiting digital platforms; it envisions a world in which the technology sector marshals its collective creativity and capacity to render terrorists and violent extremists ineffective online. In every aspect of our work, GIFCT aims to be transparent, inclusive, and uphold human rights.
Position Summary
Are you motivated by the mission of preventing terrorists and violent extremists from exploiting digital platforms?
The Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT) is seeking a part-time Fellow to support the development of practical solutions to counter coordinated cross-platform abuse by terrorist and violent extremist actors. The Fellow will work alongside GIFCT staff to fortify organizational posture on various threat trends such as ‘nihilistic violent extremism’ and hybrid harms modalities. This will include analysis of various legal and academic definitions of terrorism to ensure GIFCT solutions can apply across various circumstances and threat surfaces.
Responsibilities:
• Researching and authoring user-facing content on topics such as terrorist and violent extremist events and threat trends;
• Contribute to the development of a behavioral framework for responding to and analyzing ideologically ambiguous violent actors;
• Collaborating with GIFCT staff to shape user experience of GIFCT trust & safety solutions;
• Assist GIFCT staff with regular functions of incident response as needed;
• Participating in organizational projects as needed;
• Attending relevant meetings and events; and
• Assisting with GIFCT deliverables and external-facing documents.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Interest in the intersections of terrorism/violent extremism and technology;
• Strong written and verbal communication skills;
• Experience performing open source intelligence/research;
• Excellent organizational skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience analyzing terrorist or violent extremist actors with ambiguous or idiosyncratic motivations.
• Experience analyzing violent actors whose conduct incorporates elements of terrorism and violent extremism with adjacent harm types.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, adapt, or operationally use analytic frameworks designed to categorize terrorist and violent extremist activities;
• Experience breaking down complex topics into easily explained and practical best practices;
• Demonstrated commitment to human rights frameworks as a core analytic dimension to develop threat mitigation solutions;
• Familiarity with standards and thresholds for assessing threat credibility used by law enforcement, trust & safety teams, or similar organizations;
• Familiarity with GIFCT.
How to Apply:
Please send your resume and in lieu of a cover letter please submit answers to the below assessment to [email protected] noting “TSS Fellow” in the subject of your email:
Writing Assessment:
Identify a violent event (attack, plot, etc) from the past three years which does not cleanly fit into existing frameworks for analyzing TVE. This should be an event whose inclusion in the category of TVE is genuinely contested amongst practitioners. Briefly explain why you selected this event, and what makes it analytically interesting (max 300 words)
• Present the strongest case you can for why this event should be considered TVE. Use existing definitions and frameworks to draw parallels to the facts of this event (max 300 words).
• Present the strongest case you can for why this event should not be considered TVE. Explain what if any alternative legal or analytic categories better capture this event (max 300 words).
In your response, please refrain from including your personal conclusion as to whether you believe the event you selected should be analyzed as TVE. This exercise is intended to demonstrate your ability to weigh two opposing arguments, and identify key tensions in existing frameworks for analyzing TVE.
We strongly encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. GIFCT is an equal opportunity employer. No applicant will be denied equal opportunity for consideration because of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, status as a parent, national origin, age, disability (physical or mental), family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit based factors.
Due to the very high number of applications we receive when positions are posted, we are only able to respond directly to candidates with whom we wish to move forward in the interview process.
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