{"id":1029613,"date":"2026-01-01T05:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/?post_type=job_listing&p=1029613"},"modified":"2026-01-01T05:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:24:12","slug":"partnerships-membership-development-lead","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/nexus-agency\/job\/partnerships-membership-development-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnerships & Membership Development Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Position:<\/strong> Partnerships & Membership Development Lead \u2014 The Global Centre for Risk & Innovation (GCRI) \/ Nexus Governance System
Type:<\/strong> Membership growth, partner qualification, and ecosystem neutrality governance leadership role (non-executive; strictly non-executing)
Board:<\/strong> Council leaders are considered for Board nomination after joining and serving in good standing
Location:<\/strong> International (distributed, hybrid)
Term:<\/strong> 3 Years
Time commitment:<\/strong> Typically 12\u201330 hours per month (build-year cadence; surge periods around onboarding waves, annual renewals, and major convenings)
Apply here:\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/work\/job\/partnerships-membership-development-lead\/<\/p>\n

Context and Purpose<\/h4>\n

A governance system cannot scale on prestige alone. It scales by building a credible membership base, maintaining seat coverage, and onboarding partners through neutral, auditable processes that prevent capture, favoritism, and \u201cpay-to-influence\u201d dynamics. Without disciplined membership operations, councils become either exclusive clubs or chaotic networks\u2014both of which destroy legitimacy.<\/p>\n

The Partnerships & Membership Development Lead is accountable for building and sustaining the membership engine of the Nexus governance system: recruitment, qualification, onboarding, renewals, partner interfaces, and participation health across member types and regions. The role makes membership growth a managed system\u2014consistent, fair, and audit-ready\u2014while protecting strict non-execution firewalls and ensuring partner programs remain vendor-neutral and competition-safe.<\/p>\n

This is a governance role\u2014not execution<\/strong>. It does not underwrite, place, broker, custody, operate markets, steer procurement, select vendors, sell services, or imply endorsement. It creates the governance processes and operating rhythm that allow others to participate safely and in good standing.<\/p>\n

Key Responsibilities<\/h4>\n
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  • Build the annual membership growth plan and quarterly targets by region and member category, aligned to seat coverage needs and legitimacy goals.<\/li>\n
  • Maintain a measurable pipeline: leads \u2192 qualification \u2192 fit-and-proper checks \u2192 onboarding \u2192 participation health \u2192 renewal.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure membership growth is disciplined: scalable onboarding without lowering integrity standards.<\/li>\n
  • Define partner qualification criteria: mission fit, independence, integrity posture, handling readiness, and conflict-of-interest boundaries.<\/li>\n
  • Operate neutral onboarding processes that prevent preferential access, vendor steering, and \u201cbadge-for-money\u201d dynamics.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure each member\/partner has clear participation rights, obligations, and boundary conditions (including non-execution posture).<\/li>\n
  • Operate the Member-in-Good-Standing lifecycle: eligibility checks, contribution\/standing verification, disclosure status, participation thresholds, and renewal decisions.<\/li>\n
  • Maintain renewal and delinquency pathways that are fair, documented, and time-bounded.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure membership actions are recorded and defensible: notices, reasons, appeal routing, and closure discipline.<\/li>\n
  • Build member onboarding playbooks and engagement pathways (working groups, reviews, convenings) so participation becomes productive quickly.<\/li>\n
  • Monitor participation health: attendance, contribution quality, review throughput, and role readiness; coordinate remediation or re-seating where needed.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure the member experience is globally accessible and legitimacy-enhancing, not dominated by a single geography or sector.<\/li>\n
  • Convene structured partnership engagement with universities, labs, public agencies, civil society, operators, and development institutions\u2014focused on governance-safe collaboration (standards, evidence, methods, convenings).<\/li>\n
  • Prevent drift into execution: no dealmaking, procurement steering, vendor selection, or implied endorsements.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure partnership narratives and announcements remain accurate, bounded, and public-safe.<\/li>\n
  • Monitor concentration risk: funder\/member clustering, bloc voting risk, or dominance by a single employer\/industry.<\/li>\n
  • Enforce conflict disclosures and recusal pathways for membership decisions, sponsorship interactions, and seat allocations.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure membership growth does not compromise independence or legitimacy.<\/li>\n
  • Maintain dashboards for pipeline, conversion rates, seat completion, retention, and MGS status.<\/li>\n
  • Run quarterly retrospectives: onboarding friction, quality issues, drop-off points, and improvements to playbooks and templates.<\/li>\n
  • Coordinate with Secretariat, Competence Cell, COI\/Ethics, and Communications Integrity functions to keep membership operations aligned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Compensation, Remuneration, and Expenses<\/h4>\n
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    • Governance authority is not paid.<\/strong> Compensation is never linked to votes, approvals, recognition decisions, enforcement actions, or outcomes. No success fees and no pay-to-influence dynamics.<\/li>\n
    • Operational workload may be compensated (where permitted).<\/strong> Because this role can carry significant build-year operational workload (pipeline operations, onboarding systems, renewal administration, dashboards), compensation may be provided only for defined operational services\u2014scoped, deliverable-based, independently approved, and auditable.<\/li>\n
    • Expenses may be reimbursed.<\/strong> Reasonable, documented, pre-approved out-of-pocket expenses necessary to perform the role may be reimbursed in accordance with policy and handling requirements.<\/li>\n
    • Standing and independence apply.<\/strong> Continued service depends on good standing, disclosure compliance, and independence consistent with integrity requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Opportunities for Leaders to Join<\/h4>\n
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      • Build the membership growth engine that determines whether the governance system can scale with legitimacy and integrity.<\/li>\n
      • Shape neutral partner qualification standards that prevent capture and preserve fairness across sectors and geographies.<\/li>\n
      • Work across all councils and role families\u2014chairs, officers, competence, safeguards\u2014to build a healthy governance community.<\/li>\n
      • Strong performance positions leaders for broader governance stewardship and board consideration (without implying entitlement).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Candidate Profile<\/h4>\n

        We are seeking senior leaders (typically 10\u201320+ years) with credibility in one or more of:<\/p>\n

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        • Membership organizations, standards bodies, multilateral networks, or professional associations with complex governance.<\/li>\n
        • Partnerships leadership in mission-driven or high-trust institutions, with strong process and neutrality discipline.<\/li>\n
        • Governance operations, compliance-adjacent administration, or program operations requiring audit-ready documentation.<\/li>\n
        • Pipeline management and community-building in distributed international environments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Capabilities and Mindset<\/h4>\n
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          • Growth with integrity: can scale membership without compromising independence or safety.<\/li>\n
          • Neutral operator: avoids favoritism, pay-to-play dynamics, and implied endorsements.<\/li>\n
          • Process excellence: builds pipelines, playbooks, dashboards, and closure discipline.<\/li>\n
          • High discretion and handling maturity: understands confidentiality and safe external communication.<\/li>\n
          • Strong writing and communication: clear onboarding materials, eligibility notices, and public-safe partner narratives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            Eligibility, Membership, and Independence<\/h4>\n
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            • Holds a primary full-time role outside the council seat and can sustain the expected cadence and surge periods.<\/li>\n
            • Willing to fully disclose relevant interests (sponsorship ties, advisory roles, employer overlap) and comply with conflict-of-interest and recusal requirements.<\/li>\n
            • Not placed in a situation where service creates unmanageable conflicts or compromises neutrality.<\/li>\n
            • Accepts strict confidentiality, handling discipline, and communications integrity expectations.<\/li>\n
            • Commits to remain in good standing (participation, disclosures, and applicable contribution obligations).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1025225,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_promoted":"","_job_location":"","_application":"public@therisk.global","_filled":0,"_featured":0,"_remote_position":1,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":"","_hours":"","_rate_min":"","_rate_max":"","_salary_min":"","_salary_max":"","_apply_link":"","_job_cover_image":"","_company_manager_id":"1025233"},"job-categories":[131],"job-types":[132,146],"job_listing_tag":[],"job_listing_career_level":[133],"job_listing_experience":[29],"job_listing_qualification":[39,41,56,86],"class_list":["post-1029613","job_listing","type-job_listing","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","job_listing_category-governance","job_listing_type-leadership","job_listing_type-membership","job_listing_career_level-leader","job_listing_experience-10-years","job_listing_qualification-associate-degree","job_listing_qualification-bachelor-degree","job_listing_qualification-doctorate-degree","job_listing_qualification-master-degree","job-type-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/nexus-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/1029613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/nexus-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/nexus-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/nexus-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/nexus-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/nexus-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-categories?post=1029613"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/nexus-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=1029613"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/nexus-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_tag?post=1029613"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_career_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/nexus-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_career_level?post=1029613"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_experience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/nexus-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_experience?post=1029613"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_qualification","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/nexus-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_qualification?post=1029613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}