Officer, Standards Quality Assurance

The Officer supports NATO’s digital standardization activities by strengthening the quality, coherence, traceability and implementability of NATO digital interoperability standards and related products. The role involves ensuring standards are technically consistent, measurable/testable, configuration-controlled and aligned with architectural intent and operational requirements, and promoting structured, machine-readable standardization artefacts to improve reuse and automation across the Alliance.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to development of relevant NATO policies and regulation, and provide subject-matter advice as required
• 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 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, spanning digital, cybersecurity and relevant materiel domains
• Participate in and represent the division in meetings as required
• Coordinate delivery across a complex stakeholder landscape including International Staff, International Military Staff, nations, NATO bodies and agencies
• Prepare briefing memoranda, talking points, Q&As, speaking notes and background materials
• Liaise with international and regional Standards Developing Organizations 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
• 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 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 efficiency, quality and implementability of standards
• Perform any other related duty as assigned

Requirements

• Possess a university degree, or equivalent qualification in a field relevant for the position
• Have at least 4 years of experience in implementing, and managing projects and/or programmes related to standardization activities
• Have a strong background in design and development of complex systems
• Have excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to translate technical information into verbal/visual presentations, formal reports and/or decision briefs for senior leadership
• Possess the following minimum levels of NATO’s official languages (English/French): V ("Advanced") in one; and I ("Beginner") in the other
• Experience working in an international organisation or government is considered an advantage
• Experience supporting the development and governance of structured, machine-processable engineering artefacts is considered an advantage
• Familiarity with NATO standardization processes, practices and procedures is considered an advantage

Skills

• Standardization Activities
• Project Management
• Programme Management
• Complex Systems Design
• System Development and Implementation
• Technical Writing
• Oral Communication
• Technical Presentations
• Report Writing
• Decision Briefing
• Digital Interoperability Standards
• Quality Assurance
• Traceability Management
• Configuration Control
• Architectural Alignment
• Operational Requirements Assessment
• Machine-Processable Artefacts
• NATO Standardization Processes

Languages

English, French