What You’ll Be Doing as a Standards Lead at UKTL
As a Standards Lead, you will play a pivotal role in representing UKTL’s interests across UK, European, and international telecoms standards bodies, with a particular focus on security and resilience. This is a high-impact, internal and external-facing position that will establish UKTL as a credible and influential voice in the global telecoms standards community.
Key Responsibilities:
•Lead UKTL’s representation in international standards forums, ensuring our perspectives on telecoms security and resilience are clearly articulated and effectively advocated.
•Build and maintain strategic relationships with UK government departments, telecoms vendors, operators, and other aligned organisations to foster coordinated standards interventions.
•Promote best practices in telecoms security and resilience, positioning UKTL as a thought leader in the standards ecosystem.
•Travel nationally and internationally to participate in high-level standards meetings, acting as the voice of UKTL and ensuring our interests are well represented.
•Report back to senior stakeholders with clear, contextualised insights from standards discussions—highlighting when and where strategic interventions are needed.
•Translate complex technical standards into actionable intelligence for stakeholders across UKTL and the wider UK telecoms landscape.
•Coordinate cross-organisational efforts to align UK positions and responses to emerging standards developments.
Successful Applicants must be able to commute to the UKTL offices in Birmingham at least twice a week
We strive to offer a great work life balance - if you are looking for full time, part time or flexible options, we will try to make this work where business possible. This will be dependent on the kind of role you do and part of the business you work in