CSIS is hiring and you can make up to $120,000 if you know how to use social media

Jobs are open in B.C., Ontario, Quebec and more provinces. 🔎

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The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is hiring in cities across the country.

For these high-paying jobs that offer up to $120,000 a year, you need to know how to use social media.

Canada's intelligence and security agency is staffing Tactical Internet Collection Officer positions in Burnaby, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Fredericton and Halifax.

The salary for these CSIS jobs is between $99,392 and $120,917 a year.

As a Tactical Internet Collection Officer, you're responsible for collecting, analyzing and reporting details of threat-related activities using online open source intelligence tradecraft.

The duties of the position include:

  • assessing and interpreting online information through investigative means to gather intelligence
  • monitoring the activities of specific subjects of investigation, identifying investigative leads, and supporting the identification and development of new targets and sources
  • knowing active investigations, relevant local threat environments, online trends, existing and emerging social media platforms and internet usage patterns of persons of interest
  • consulting with operational units to gather and analyze intelligence, provide advice and explain results, and write reports
  • maintaining the safety and integrity of tactical online collection and identifying capability gaps

This job is only open to Canadian citizens.

You need a high school diploma and eight years of experience, a college diploma and six years of experience, or an undergraduate degree and four years of experience.

That experience must be in conducting research, analysis, and report writing using online sources.

Also, you need knowledge of social media platforms and smartphones.

It's an asset if you know a foreign language and can effectively navigate the internet.

You must be eligible to receive an Enhanced Top Secret security clearance.

The process includes a security interview, a polygraph, and a background investigation with credit and financial verifications.

The closing date for this job is September 8, 2025.

Tactical Internet Collection Officer

Salary: $99,392 to $120,917

Company: CSIS

Location: Burnaby, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Fredericton and Halifax

Who Should Apply: You need a high school diploma and eight years of experience, a college diploma and six years of experience, or an undergraduate degree and four years of experience.

That experience must be in conducting research, analysis, and report writing using online sources.

Also, you need knowledge of social media platforms and smartphones.

The deadline is September 8, 2025.

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    Lisa Belmonte (she/her) is a Senior Writer with Narcity Media. After graduating with a Bachelor of Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), she joined the Narcity team. Lisa covers news and notices from across the country from a Canada-wide perspective. Her early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic earned Narcity its first-ever national journalism award nomination.

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