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14. oktoober 2024
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GovStack Digital Registries Working Group Lead

Start of employment: ASAP

Recruitment by GovStack founding partner: ESTDEV

Duration of employment: until 30 June 2025, with the possibility of extension

Location: remote/hybrid  

GovStack was founded by Estonia, Germany, ITU and DIAL in 2020. The initiative supports countries and organizations with building cost-effective and efficient digital public services that are easy to scale, so that citizens can seamlessly access health records, manage identity documents, make digital payments, and utilise other government services. The GovStack approach is based on the SDG Digital Investment Framework and promotes the use of interoperable, generic, and reusable “building blocks” to digitalize any service. By offering governments and institutions essential tools and guidance for digital services design and implementation that are based on international best practices, GovStack makes it easier, faster, and more reliable for national, municipal, or local stakeholders to implement digital government services.  
Since its foundation, GovStack has engaged with more than 20 countries in different regions of the world and has mobilized a community of more than 260 experts and specialists to contribute to development of reliable, secure, and effective digital services.   

Responsibilities of the role: 

  • Providing digital registries related architecture vision for GovStack  
  • Providing architectural leadership for the digital registries’ specification working group. 
  • Active participation and involvement in the working groups and specification development of digital registries specifications. 
  • Defining principles and rules for the development of digital registries related specifications.  
  • Active collaboration with GovStack CTO. Participation in general architecture related workgroups if deemed necessary by the CTO.  
  • Representing GovStack in technically oriented events, delivering presentations and participating in panels related to the domain. 

Required skills and competencies:  

  • Technical knowledge of digital registries technologies and related architectural principles. 
  • Experience in the use of IT management tools: Github, Gitbook, Jira and Confluence. 
  • Social compatibility: a respectful and result-oriented team player with good communication skills. 
  • Proven experience in coordinating and leading technical working groups.  
  • Excellent English skills – both written and spoken. 

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications, including the following:  

  • A cover letter, incl salary expectations, outlining their suitability for the role  
  • A CV highlighting relevant experience and qualifications  

  • Drawing from the Digital Registries specifications Digital Registries | bb-digital-registries (gitbook.io) and other publicly available 

    information, a one-page written summary containing specific proposals for continuing work with the specifications, incl which changes may be necessary, why they are needed, and how to implement them. 

As ESTDEV is responsible for the recruitment, applications should be submitted to [email protected] by Mon, 14 Oct 2024 EoB (17.00 EEST). 

For any additional information, please contact GovStack CTO, Mr Kristo Vaher, e-mail: [email protected] or +372 5692 0873 (WhatsApp).