Corporate Workplace Incident Threat Investigator

**DESCRIPTION**

The Corporate Workplace Incident Threat Investigator is part of a global Workplace Incident Management (WIM) team responsible for supporting our corporate client in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). The Threat Investigator will assess physical security threats and conduct workplace investigations related to threats of violence, suicidal ideation, physical and verbal assault, harassment, and other types of workplace incidents towards employees and corporate sites.

The Threat Investigator uses technology, analysis, interviewing, and assessment techniques to protect and safeguard personnel, information, and assets. The Corporate WIM team provides expertise and resources to local security and Human Resources involving global locations and personnel, and embraces the concepts of continuous process improvement, innovation, and shared risk management. This position is one of the Corporate WIM team’s key liaisons with regional and local teams tasked with ensuring a safe and secure work environment.

**This position requires in-person/in-office attendance in Edinburgh with an annual starting salary range of 54,000—58,000 GBP.**

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Conduct interviews of victims, witnesses, and persons of interest utilizing established interviewing techniques and skills specific to corporate investigations.
- Conduct investigations related to threats originating from external sources outside the company, and internal incidents and issues such workplace violence or threats of violence or suicide.
- Build collaborative cross-functional partnerships within Security groups, Human Resources, Employee Relations, and Legal teams, leading training and awareness sessions to focus on incident prevention, not just incident response.
- Organize, prioritize, and investigate multiple incidents, as part of a caseload, with overlapping deadlines and client-imposed priorities.
- Participate in training and mentoring opportunities.
- Collect, document, and preserve video, still images, documents, and other materials connected to an investigation and maintain it as part of the investigations workflow and case adjudication process.
- Use a structured investigative workflow and case management system to track and close investigations and analyze trends and patterns in order to identify causation, mitigate loss, and change processes to prevent future incidents.
- Analyze CCTV video, access control systems, and other data collection capabilities, in response to incidents in order to identify behaviors, root causes, locations, potential evidence, and/or person(s) involved.
- Conduct and manage investigations using both automated and manual tools, such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat DC, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Bridge, Microsoft Word, Lenel, Amazon Chime, Microsoft Outlook, and a cloud-based case management system.
- Compile and publish case management metrics.
- Other duties as assigned.

**BASIC QUALIFICATIONS**
- Bachelor’s Degree (preferred)
- 4+ years of experience working in Corporate Investigations, Law Enforcement, Security Operations, Incident Management, social services, or related field
- Demonstrated ability to empathize and verbally connect with people during both stressful and non-stressful situations, while facilitating the accurate recollection of conversations, interactions and observations using non-threatening, non-coercive questioning and open-ended conversation.
- Possess highly developed written and verbal communication skills, clear and precise writing skills, and effective interpersonal skills.
- Familiarity with professional threat assessment organizations including the Association of European Threat Assessment Professionals (AETAP) (preferred)
- Have prior experience in conducting in-depth and complex corporate, product, and/or vendor investigations
- Be willing to learn new methods and approaches to seemingly familiar problems/situations
- Have experienced the benefits, and understands the value, of being a team player in a corporate culture that relies on diversity and shared goals to break through obstacles and solve problems; and how one individual, who doesn’t understand or embrace these values, can undermine, divide and derail their team’s motivation and effectiveness.
- Have familiarity and experience with the investigation of workplace violence cases/issues/incidents utilizing structured professional judgment tools (preferred)
- Have experience using the P.E.A.C.E. interview method or familiarity with the process (Preferred, but not required).
- Understand GDPR and conducting investigations involving personnel within GDPR landscape
- Pass a background investigation check and drug screen.
- Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability of speaking and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information related to security enforcement. Includes giving assignments and/or directions to co-workers or assistants.
- Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge