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Career mobility is hard in intelligence, for good reasons: trust, secrecy, uneven role language. Our role is to break those down, providing shortcuts to all of these factors.

EIPIO exists to professionalise intelligence work across Europe—one standards framework, one skills language, and one ethics baseline that employers can trust. That’s not academic. It’s career leverage. An advantage of professional associations is that they live at the crossroads of different sectors in the same professions.

This provides members the opportunity for career mobility.

This page is the starting point for a European mobility layer for intelligence professionals: clearer role definitions, portable competencies, credible training pathways, and a bridge between talent and organisations that need it.

Over time, this will expand into a structured opportunity hub—roles, fellowships, secondments, and partner job fairs. For now, it’s where we begin building the common professional vocabulary that makes movement across agencies, sectors, and countries less risky for employers—and less opaque for you.

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Start-up Co-Founder

EIPIO is a new, practitioner-led institute being built as a professional home for Europe’s intelligence community – spanning public sector, private sector, hybrid roles, and those in transition. We are now looking for two Co-Founders to help shape EIPIO from the ground up.

As Co-Founder, you will work alongside the Founder to:

Define EIPIO’s strategy, mission and priorities
Build governance, membership models and standards
Develop partnerships with institutions, companies and practitioners
Oversee early-stage operations, including projects, events and outreach

This is a hands-on, builder role suited to someone with real-world experience in intelligence, security, analysis or adjacent fields, and a strong interest in professional standards, ethics and community-building.

We’re looking for people who are:

Comfortable working in ambiguity and a start-up environment
Willing to invest time, ideas and networks
Committed to raising the professional bar for intelligence work in Europe

📌 Full role description & application details
Please see the detailed Co-Founder call and how to apply via our LinkedIn posting: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4338918757/

Start-up Volunteers

EIPIO is building a professional home for Europe’s intelligence community – and we’re doing it with practitioners, not just for them. To support that mission, we maintain a standing call for qualified volunteers who want to contribute time and expertise.

Typical volunteer roles may include:

Supporting membership and community-building activities
Contributing to research, standards, or best-practice projects
Assisting with events, training, and outreach
Helping to shape EIPIO’s internal processes and governance

All volunteers must qualify as Members of EIPIO, meaning you meet our professional criteria (intelligence, security, analysis, or closely related fields) and uphold our standards of ethics and confidentiality.

If you’d like to volunteer with EIPIO, please email: info@eipio.eu with:

Your CV
A short cover letter explaining your background, motivation, and availability
Two professional references from intelligence community professionals

We review expressions of interest on a rolling basis and will contact suitable candidates for an initial conversation.

Mobility Advice

Map your experience to a common competency language
Intelligence careers get stuck on one frustrating problem: two people do the same job, but describe it in totally different ways. EIPIO is building a shared “competency language” so you can translate what you’ve done into terms employers recognise across agencies, sectors, and borders. Think of it as a plain-English crosswalk between your real work and the skills signals recruiters and hiring panels can actually compare.

Role families and career pathways (early draft)
We’re publishing an early set of role families—Analyst, Collection Support, OSINT, Threat Intelligence, Investigations, CI Awareness, Strategic Intelligence, and Governance/Ethics—along with typical progression routes. This is not a rigid ladder. It’s a map: common titles, common responsibilities, and the skills that usually separate “solid performer” from “ready for the next level.”

A “mobility-ready” profile checklist (CV/LinkedIn + evidence guidance)
A mobility-ready profile makes your capability legible without oversharing sensitive details. We’ll provide a checklist to tighten your CV and LinkedIn: how to frame impact, how to describe tools and methods safely, how to show analytical rigour, and how to evidence training and continuing professional development. The goal is simple: credibility, clarity, and transferability—without compromising confidentiality.

Partner interest: how employers and universities can collaborate early
If you’re an employer or faculty lead, you can help shape the mobility layer from day one. Early partners can: share anonymised role descriptions to improve standardisation, co-design competency-aligned short courses, offer guest lectures or case-based teaching, and pilot internships/secondments. The upside is immediate: better talent matching, cleaner role definitions, and a pipeline that’s trained to shared standards rather than vague job titles.e...

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