Project Officer - Digital Public Infrastructure, Digital Credentials and Wallets

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Project Officer - Digital Public Infrastructure, Digital Credentials and Wallets

Vacancy notice no: 2208
Sector: TSB
Department: SED
Country of contract: Switzerland
Duty station: Geneva

Position number:
Grade: P3
Type of contract: Short-term
Duration of contract: 11 months
Recruitment open to: External
Final date to receive applications (Midnight Geneva Time): 5 January 2026

ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT

The Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) fulfills the objectives of the Union relating to telecommunication standardization, by providing secretariat support to groups studying technical, operating and tariff questions and facilitating the adoption of Recommendations in these areas with a view to standardizing telecommunications and information technology on a global basis. In order to achieve these objectives, the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau works in accordance with the instructions of the World Telecommunication Standardization Assemblies (WTSA), Telecommunication Standardization Study Groups and the Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group.

TSB, headed by an elected Director, provides the technical, administrative and logistic support for the assemblies and for the meetings of the groups mentioned.

Within the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB), the Strategic Engagement Department (SED) is responsible with leading the Bureau's community engagement, marketing, and communications efforts, including pioneering “emerging technologies” initiatives like the annual AI for Good Global Summit, and utilizing innovative tactics for membership recruitment and business development to establish ITU-T as an agile, forward-looking, and innovative standardization platform. The Department is also responsible for the Bureau's, academic initiatives and the ITU Journal, a periodical dedicated to research topics in telecommunication and ICT.

In the Strategic Tech and Academia Initiatives Division (STAI) within the Strategic Engagement Department (SED), under the supervision of the Head of STAI, the duties to be performed are as follows:

• Coordinate with ITU Study Groups and external standards development bodies to gather key inputs, background materials, and updated information on their standardization activities on digital public infrastructure (DPI), working closely with ITU policy, and technical teams across the Bureaux to integrate institutional knowledge and technical accuracy.
• Conduct in-depth research on digital public infrastructure and AI implementation, standards- related work and their implications for global technology policy. Stay abreast of the latest trends and developments in digital credentials, AI, and digital public infrastructure innovations to develop a related repository on digital public infrastructure implementations and standardization work. Synthesize key insights to develop technical papers on digital public infrastructure and AI.
  
  The repository will include use cases for digital public infrastructure and digital credentials and wallets based on research on technical requirements, use cases, and standardization aspects related to…