Deputy / Acting President

Position: Deputy / Acting President (Continuity Lead) — The Global Risks Forum (GRF) / Nexus Governance System
Type: Diplomatic continuity, due-process assurance, and operational governance leadership role (non-executive; strictly non-executing)
Board: Council leaders are considered for Board/Trustee nomination after joining and serving in good standing
Location: International (distributed, hybrid)
Term: 3 Years
Time commitment: ~18 hours per month (build-year cadence; surge leadership during escalations, disputes, incident cycles, and succession/continuity events)
Apply here: https://therisk.global/work/work/job/deputy-acting-president-grf/

Context and Purpose

Whole-of-society risk governance only functions when continuity is engineered: leadership coverage, decision clocks, records discipline, controlled handling, and reliable follow-through under stress. The most damaging failures occur during transitions and escalations—when unclear authority, informal side channels, or missing records convert legitimate deliberation into contested outcomes.

The Global Risks Forum (GRF) is the standards, assurance, and public legitimacy pillar of the Nexus governance system. It stewards the assurance language and public record—recognition states, conformance levels, evidence quality levels, claim rules, dispute clocks, and due-process discipline—so that system outputs are auditable, correctionable, and safe for lawful reliance without collapsing governance into execution.

The Deputy / Acting President is the GRF continuity anchor. The mandate is to maintain the operating integrity of the GRF governance machine: ensure cadence does not break, decision validity requirements are met, disputes and corrections are processed on time, and leadership transitions do not create gaps, capture risk, or record failures. The Deputy acts for the President when required and holds explicit responsibility for continuity planning, delegated authority discipline, and operational resilience of the governance cycle—without exercising execution authority or implying endorsement.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain GRF continuity-of-leadership posture: succession plans, deputy coverage, delegated authority matrices, and clear “acting” triggers with time limits.
• Serve as Acting President when required, preserving neutrality, due process, and record-valid decisioning under pressure.
• Ensure leadership handoffs are documented: authority chain, pending dockets, dispute clocks, correction obligations, and handling constraints.
• Run the GRF production cadence alongside the President: quarterly cycles, agenda discipline, deliverable tracking, and closure quality.
• Ensure validity-by-record is consistently met: quorum/votes, recusals, rationale, decision records, and distribution/publishing completion.
• Prevent informal governance: stop side-channel commitments, unrecorded “agreements,” and off-cycle recognition signals.
• Oversee dispute-clock integrity and procedural fairness: notices issued, response windows honored, reasoned outcomes recorded, and appeals routed properly.
• Ensure correction and supersession discipline is reliable: version control, public-safe corrections, and non-silent updates.
• Coordinate enforcement actions for misrepresentation and badge misuse with appropriate officers/committees, ensuring consistent application and non-arbitrary outcomes.
• Maintain handling and publication discipline across sessions: controlled convening where required, least-privilege distribution, and safe publication posture.
• Ensure sensitive matters do not leak through operational gaps (calendaring, minutes, distribution lists, draft control, informal recording).
• Coordinate with security/handling and records functions to ensure operational controls are practiced and testable.
• Track and mitigate governance operational risks: backlog accumulation, deadline slippage, role overload, single points of failure, and participation fatigue.
• Sponsor “continuity drills” for governance: tabletop exercises for leadership absence, dispute surges, misinformation events, and critical correction releases.
• Support membership growth and seat completion by ensuring onboarding pipelines and operating discipline can scale without integrity loss.

Compensation, Remuneration, and Expenses

This role is designed to be trust-maximizing and capture-resistant.

• Governance authority is not paid. Compensation is never linked to votes, recognition outcomes, enforcement actions, dispute results, standards outcomes, market outcomes, or influence. No success fees. No pay-to-recognize.
• Operational workload may be compensated (where permitted). If build-year operational leadership is required (cycle operations, dispute administration, continuity drills, publication discipline), compensation may be provided only for clearly defined operational services—scoped, time-bounded, deliverable-based, independently approved, and auditable, with conflict safeguards.
• Expenses may be reimbursed. Reasonable, documented, pre-approved out-of-pocket expenses required for the role may be reimbursed in accordance with policy and handling requirements.
• Standing and independence apply. Continued service depends on remaining in good standing, meeting disclosure obligations, and maintaining independence consistent with GRF integrity requirements.

Opportunities for Leaders to Join

• Build the continuity architecture that makes whole-of-society governance resilient under pressure, transitions, and contested outcomes.
• Operate as the integrity and cadence anchor of a global standards-and-recognition system designed for auditability and correctionability.
• Lead governance resilience drills and operational excellence that prevent the most common institutional failure modes (informal decisions, missing records, delayed remedies).
• Strong performance positions leaders for senior stewardship roles and board consideration (without implying entitlement).

Leaders Profile

We are seeking a senior governance operator and diplomatic continuity leader, typically with 12–20+ years across one or more of:

• Deputy chair / secretary-general / chief of staff roles in high-scrutiny councils, standards bodies, or multi-stakeholder forums.
• Due process, dispute resolution governance, hearing/appeal processes, or integrity enforcement in complex institutions.
• Records, publication, and operating discipline for institutions where decisions must be defensible under scrutiny.
• Continuity planning and operational resilience for mission-critical governance systems.

Capabilities and Mindset

• Procedural precision: protects due process and record validity even when tempo is high.
• Calm “acting” leadership: can chair contested sessions fairly and close decisions cleanly.
• Operational excellence: turns principles into cadence, templates, checklists, and closure discipline.
• High discretion and handling maturity: understands controlled materials and safe publication posture.
• Correction-positive: treats corrections as institutional strength and ensures they happen on time.

Eligibility, Membership, and Independence

• Holds a primary full-time role outside the council seat and can commit sustained time at the expected cadence.
• Willing to fully disclose relevant interests and comply with conflict-of-interest and recusal requirements.
• Not placed in a situation where service creates unmanageable conflicts or compromises neutrality.
• Accepts strict confidentiality, handling discipline, and communications integrity expectations.
• Commits to remain in good standing (participation, disclosures, and applicable contribution obligations).