Overview
The incumbent supports NATO’s digital standardization activities by strengthening the quality, coherence, traceability and implementability of NATO digital interoperability standards and related products. They will contribute to ensuring standards are technically consistent, measurable/testable, configuration-controlled and aligned with architectural intent and operational requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to development of relevant NATO policies and regulation, and provide subject-matter advice.
- Enable modern, coherent and enforceable NATO interoperability standards by ensuring alignment between policy intent, architectural choices, and standardization outputs.
- Work with members of the Standardization Writing Team and Working Groups to set the conditions for successful development and adoption of standards.
- Lead/coordinate workstreams as required; manage practical, administrative and logistic aspects; track progress, dependencies, risks and issues.
- Support reduction of integration risk in Command, Control, Communication and Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) and multi-domain operations through standards that are technically consistent and verifiable.
- Lead and/or support the development, staffing, adoption, maintenance and coherence of NATO standards and related products (e.g., reference architectures, semantic resources, doctrine/implementation guidance and directives), spanning to digital, cybersecurity and relevant materiel domains (including aviation and other complex systems where applicable).
- Participate in and represent the division in meetings, as required.
- Coordinate delivery across a complex stakeholder landscape (International Staff/International Military Staff, nations, NATO bodies and agencies).
- Prepare briefing memoranda, talking points, Q&As, speaking notes and background materials.
- Liaise, as required, with international and regional SDOs, and other external stakeholders.
- Sustain lifecycle management and institutional continuity of NATO standards and related products.
- Establish and maintain configuration control, traceability, version control, and quality management practices for standardization artefacts and supporting materials, including use of repositories and collaboration platforms (e.g. Git).
- Promote and support the use of structured, machine-processable artefacts to improve coherence, reuse and implementability in engineering toolchains.
- Ensure standards are SMART, measurable, testable, and implementable across the Alliance.
- Contribute to definition and maintenance of conformance mechanisms (e.g. conformance criteria, compliance validation frameworks, test reference systems and implementation directives), supporting consistent application of interoperability- and security-by-design principles.
- Keep abreast of current techniques and developments in standardization, interoperability, and emerging technologies.
- Identify opportunities to improve NATO Standardization practices, including opportunities to enhance efficiency, quality and implementability of standards.
- Perform any other related duty as assigned.
Required Experience
At least 4 years of experience in implementing, and managing projects and/or programmes related to standardization activities; a strong background in design and development of complex systems; experience working in an international organisation or government (advantage); experience supporting the development and governance of structured, machine-processable engineering artefacts (advantage); familiarity with NATO standardization processes, practices and procedures (advantage).
Qualifications
A university degree, or equivalent qualification in a field relevant for the position.
