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PSF / 00 Professional interest

Serious work for principled professionals.

We work with experienced security, protection, risk and training professionals on assignments that call for judgement, discretion and lawful conduct. If that describes how you work, we would like to hear from you.

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PSF / 01 Working with us

Professional work, honestly described.

Para Special Forces is an independent international security, protection, training and risk-management organisation. We work with appropriately qualified professionals when a client’s requirement calls for their particular experience — experience that may have been gained in civilian security, in risk and consulting work, in instruction, or in former military, specialist or law-enforcement service.

We are not part of, and do not recruit for, any government, armed force, police service or intelligence organisation. Nothing on this page is an invitation to join a military or government body, and working with us confers no official status or authority of any kind.

Engagement is shaped by genuine requirements. We cannot promise a volume of work, a location or a timescale to anyone who expresses interest. It does mean, however, that when we make contact, there is a real and suitable reason to talk.

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InvolvesWhat working with us involves

  • Private, lawful professional work for clients
  • Assignments matched to verified experience
  • A clear scope, standards of conduct and accountability
  • Discretion towards clients, colleagues and partners

Never involvesWhat it never involves

  • Official military, police or government authority
  • Recruitment into any armed force or state body
  • Work that is unlawful or outside the agreed scope
  • Disclosure of classified or restricted information

PSF / 02 Professional categories

Eight kinds of work.
One standard.

Each category describes a kind of work we may need rather than an open vacancy. Responsibilities vary with every assignment, and every category is subject to the eligibility conditions set out below.

Security Specialist

  • Team-based
  • Preventive

Security specialists carry out the day-to-day protective and preventive work within an agreed plan. The role rewards steadiness: careful observation, dependable routine and calm, courteous conduct towards everyone an assignment involves.

Typical responsibilities

  • Maintaining awareness of an environment and reporting concerns promptly
  • Working to agreed procedures, access arrangements and communication plans
  • Supporting colleagues and the assignment lead within a clear scope
  • Keeping accurate, factual records

Backgrounds that tend to suit

Former military, specialist security or law-enforcement personnel, and experienced licensed security professionals who work well in teams and value procedure.

Express interest in the Security Specialist category

Executive Protection Specialist

  • Client-facing
  • Travel

Executive protection specialists support the safety and privacy of principals, executives and families. The best protection is well advanced, discreet and largely unnoticed — it fits around a client’s life and work rather than dominating it.

Typical responsibilities

  • Advance planning for movements, venues and schedules
  • Discreet close support within the law and the agreed scope
  • Liaison with a client’s household, office and travel staff
  • Adapting calmly to late changes of plan

Backgrounds that tend to suit

Qualified protection professionals, and former specialist, military or law-enforcement personnel with relevant civilian protection training, sound social judgement and a composed, unobtrusive manner.

Express interest in the Executive Protection Specialist category

Security Consultant

  • Advisory
  • Organisational

Security consultants review how people, premises, travel and information are protected, and recommend practical, proportionate improvements that clients can realistically adopt alongside their business and culture.

Typical responsibilities

  • Structured reviews of arrangements, policies and procedures
  • Clear written reports and prioritised recommendations
  • Presenting findings to decision-makers and answering challenge
  • Supporting implementation where a client requests it

Backgrounds that tend to suit

Experienced security managers and advisers, and former service or law-enforcement professionals who have moved into advisory work and who write and communicate with precision.

Express interest in the Security Consultant category

Risk Analyst

  • Analytical
  • Research

Risk analysts help clients understand the environments they work in and the risks that genuinely matter to them. Their value lies in proportion and clarity rather than alarm, and in analysis that decision-makers can actually use.

Typical responsibilities

  • Assessing security, safety and travel risks from lawful, open sources
  • Producing concise, well-reasoned written assessments
  • Monitoring changes that affect existing arrangements
  • Helping consultants and planners turn analysis into action

Backgrounds that tend to suit

Professionals from risk, analytical, research or consulting backgrounds — including those whose analytical experience was gained in former service — who reason carefully and write concisely.

Express interest in the Risk Analyst category

Safety Instructor

  • Instruction
  • Groups

Safety instructors teach personal safety, situational awareness and de-escalation to individuals, teams and organisations. Good instruction builds confidence and sound judgement — never fear, and never aggression.

Typical responsibilities

  • Delivering lawful sessions suited to each audience
  • Adapting content to different abilities, needs and settings
  • Maintaining a safe, respectful learning environment
  • Contributing to course materials and evaluation

Backgrounds that tend to suit

Qualified personal-safety instructors, and professionals from service or security backgrounds who hold appropriate instructional qualifications and genuinely enjoy teaching adults.

Express interest in the Safety Instructor category

Operations Coordinator

  • Planning
  • Support

Operations coordinators keep assignments organised: people, schedules, logistics and communication. It is a central role for those who are meticulous, calm under changing demands and entirely dependable with confidential information.

Typical responsibilities

  • Coordinating schedules, logistics and assignment documentation
  • Keeping communication clear between clients, specialists and partners
  • Tracking requirements such as licensing and work authorisation
  • Supporting review and improvement after assignments

Backgrounds that tend to suit

Experienced coordinators, planners and administrators from security, logistics, travel or former service environments who combine exacting organisation with discretion.

Express interest in the Operations Coordinator category

Travel Security Specialist

  • Travel
  • Advisory

Travel security specialists help clients travel with confidence by preparing thoroughly and responding sensibly when plans change. The work combines research, planning and, where lawful and required, accompanying support.

Typical responsibilities

  • Pre-travel risk information and briefings
  • Planning practical itineraries, accommodation and transport
  • Advising travellers and maintaining contingency arrangements
  • Coordinating with licensed local partners where appropriate

Backgrounds that tend to suit

Protection, risk and security professionals with international experience, cultural awareness and a practical approach to logistics — always subject to the right to work in each jurisdiction involved.

Express interest in the Travel Security Specialist category

Security Training Professional

  • Programme design
  • Organisations

Security training professionals design and lead preparedness programmes for organisations — from awareness and travel safety to emergency readiness and exercises that test whether plans really work.

Typical responsibilities

  • Designing structured programmes around a client’s real needs
  • Facilitating workshops, briefings and tabletop exercises
  • Assessing learning and reporting constructively on outcomes
  • Keeping content current, lawful and proportionate

Backgrounds that tend to suit

Experienced trainers, emergency-preparedness specialists and security managers, including former service professionals with an instructional background and strong facilitation skills.

Express interest in the Security Training Professional category

Not sure which category fits your experience? Read about the backgrounds we work with, or see how our training programmes are structured.

PSF / 03 Expected qualities

Skills can be refined. Character has to arrive with you.

Across every category, we look for the same nine qualities. None of them is demonstrated by a job title alone; all of them show in how someone actually works.

ACharacter

Integrity
Honesty about your experience, your work and your mistakes.
Discipline
Consistency in the small, unglamorous tasks good arrangements depend on.
Responsible judgement
Decisions that are calm, proportionate, lawful and considerate of everyone affected.

BProfessional

Professionalism
Courteous, well-presented and dependable conduct in every setting, including private ones.
Communication
Clear, concise speaking and writing — and the ability to listen well.
Reliability
Doing what was agreed, when it was agreed, and saying early if something changes.

CFoundation

Relevant experience
A genuine, verifiable record of work related to the category.
Legal eligibility
The right to work, and any required licences, permissions and clearances, already in place.
Respect for confidentiality
Discretion towards clients and colleagues, and continued respect for obligations owed to former employers.

PSF / 04 Eligibility

Settled before any work begins.

We would rather explain the conditions plainly now than disappoint anyone later. You do not need to have resolved every point below before expressing interest — but no one can be engaged on any assignment until each relevant condition is satisfied and verified.

  1. Condition 01

    Legal right to work

    You must hold the legal right to work in each country where you would be engaged. We never arrange work that depends on sidestepping immigration rules, and international assignments are always subject to proper authorisation.

  2. Condition 02

    Post-service permissions & clearances

    If your former service, employer or government requires permission, notification or clearance before you undertake private work — or restricts the work you may do — those requirements must already be satisfied. We will never ask you to act against them.

  3. Condition 03

    Licensing where required

    Many security, protection and training roles require licences or recognised qualifications that differ between jurisdictions. Where a role requires them, they must be held and current before work begins.

  4. Condition 04

    Verification & background checks

    Engagement is conditional on lawful, proportionate verification: background checks appropriate to the role, confirmation of qualifications and licences, and professional references — all with your knowledge and consent.

PrincipleFormer service is valued for the experience it represents. It confers no current military or government authority, and it is never presented to clients as though it does. Read our standards & compliance framework.

PSF / 05 The process

Four considered stages.

Every conversation is different, so we do not publish timescales. The sequence, however, stays the same — and every expression of interest is treated in confidence.

  1. Expression of interest

    You share a short summary of your experience, the categories that interest you and your current eligibility, through the confidential enquiry form or by email.

  2. Conversation

    Where there is a potential fit with current or anticipated requirements, we arrange a confidential conversation about your experience, expectations and the kind of work involved.

  3. Verification

    With your consent, we confirm identity, qualifications, licences and references, complete appropriate background checks and discuss any post-service permissions that apply.

  4. Suitability for a specific requirement

    Engagement follows only when a requirement arises for which you are suitable, available and fully eligible. Verification alone does not guarantee work, and we are straightforward about that.

PSF / 06 How to express interest

Two confidential routes. Choose either.

Route A

Confidential enquiry form

Use the enquiry form on our contact page and select “Careers / professional enquiry” as the enquiry type.

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Route B

Email

Write to im@digantsharma.com with the subject line “Careers — [category]”.

Email Your Interest

Never submit classified, restricted or operationally sensitive information through this website. Describe your experience in general terms only; we will never ask for details of classified or restricted work.

PSF / 07 Further reading

Understand the organisation you would be working with.

PSF / 08 Take the first step

If your experience rests on integrity, start a conversation.

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Contact person

Mr. Digant Sharma

+91-9769999960 im@digantsharma.com