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Position:<\/strong> Partnerships & Membership Development Lead \u2014 Global Risk Alliance (GRA) \/ Nexus Governance System
Type:<\/strong> Membership growth, partner qualification, and neutrality-safe ecosystem development governance leadership role (non-executive; strictly non-executing)
Board:<\/strong> Council leaders are considered for Board\/Trustee nomination after joining and serving in good standing
Location:<\/strong> International (distributed, hybrid)
Term:<\/strong> 3 Years
Time commitment:<\/strong> ~15\u201335 hours per month (build-year cadence; surge periods around onboarding waves, renewals, and major convenings)
Apply here:\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/work\/job\/partnerships-membership-development-lead-gra\/<\/p>\n

Context and Purpose<\/h4>\n

GRA\u2019s finance-facing governance can only scale if membership growth is treated as a disciplined operating system: qualification, onboarding, renewals, seat coverage, and participation health\u2014run with neutrality, auditability, and strict anti-capture controls. In financial services contexts, weak membership discipline creates the fastest path to reputational failure: pay-to-influence perceptions, preferential access, vendor capture, bloc dominance, and blurred lines between governance and commercial execution.<\/p>\n

The Partnerships & Membership Development Lead is accountable for building and sustaining GRA\u2019s membership engine across sovereign\/public authorities, financial institutions, development finance, operators, academia, civil society\/media, and community integrity roles. The role makes membership growth measurable and defensible\u2014pipeline to onboarding to retention\u2014while preserving strict non-execution firewalls and ensuring partner programs remain vendor-neutral, competition-safe, and free of implied endorsement.<\/p>\n

This is governance\u2014not execution. The role does not sell services, raise capital, broker deals, steer procurement, select vendors, provide regulated advice, underwrite, place, custody, operate markets, or imply endorsement.<\/p>\n

Key Responsibilities<\/h4>\n
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  • Build the annual membership growth plan and quarterly targets by region and member category; treat membership growth and seat completion as core leadership KPIs.<\/li>\n
  • Maintain a measurable pipeline: outreach \u2192 qualification \u2192 fit-and-proper checks \u2192 onboarding \u2192 participation health \u2192 renewal.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure membership growth is scalable without lowering integrity standards or creating preferential access dynamics.<\/li>\n
  • Define partner and member qualification criteria: mission fit, independence posture, conflict risk thresholds, handling readiness, and competition-safe participation rules.<\/li>\n
  • Operate neutral onboarding processes that prevent pay-to-influence perceptions, vendor steering, \u201cbadge-for-money\u201d dynamics, and implied endorsements.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure each member has clear rights, obligations, boundaries, and disclosure requirements\u2014documented and enforceable.<\/li>\n
  • Operate Member-in-Good-Standing (MGS) lifecycle: standing verification (participation, disclosures, contribution\/eligibility), renewal decisions, delinquency and cure pathways, and termination routing where necessary.<\/li>\n
  • Maintain fair, time-bounded notices and appeal routing for membership actions; ensure reasons are recorded and defensible.<\/li>\n
  • Coordinate membership records, rosters, term clocks, and seat coverage with secretariat, competence, and ethics\/COI functions.<\/li>\n
  • Build participation pathways that make membership productive: working groups, reviewer pools, convenings, and contribution tracks aligned to competence controls.<\/li>\n
  • Monitor participation health: attendance, contribution quality, review throughput, and role readiness; coordinate remediation or re-seating where needed.<\/li>\n
  • Maintain geographic balance and prevent dominance by a single employer, sector, funder, or geography; enforce concentration and influence caps.<\/li>\n
  • Convene structured partnership engagement (governance-safe collaboration on standards, templates, convenings) without drifting into commercial execution or dealmaking.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure partnership announcements and public claims are accurate, bounded, and consistent with recorded decisions and disclosure posture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Compensation, Remuneration, and Expenses<\/h4>\n

    This role is designed to be trust-maximizing and capture-resistant in a financial services context.<\/p>\n

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    • Governance authority is not paid.<\/strong> Compensation is never linked to votes, approvals, recognition decisions, enforcement actions, standards outcomes, market outcomes, or influence. No success fees. No pay-to-approve.<\/li>\n
    • Operational workload may be compensated (where permitted).<\/strong> Because this role can involve significant build-year operational workload (pipeline ops, onboarding systems, renewal administration, dashboards), compensation may be provided only for clearly defined operational services\u2014scoped, time-bounded, deliverable-based, independently approved, and auditable, with conflicts safeguards.<\/li>\n
    • Expenses may be reimbursed.<\/strong> Reasonable, documented, pre-approved out-of-pocket expenses required for the role may be reimbursed in accordance with policy and handling requirements.<\/li>\n
    • Standing and independence apply.<\/strong> Continued service depends on remaining in good standing, meeting disclosure obligations, and maintaining independence consistent with integrity and conduct requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Opportunities for Leaders to Join<\/h4>\n
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      • Build the membership growth engine that determines whether finance-facing governance can scale with legitimacy and neutrality.<\/li>\n
      • Create qualification and onboarding standards that prevent capture, preferential access, and implied endorsement in high-scrutiny financial contexts.<\/li>\n
      • Shape a global, multi-helix participation base that improves coverage and reduces single-point institutional dependence.<\/li>\n
      • Strong performance positions leaders for broader governance stewardship and board consideration (without implying entitlement).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Leaders Profile<\/h4>\n

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

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        • Membership organizations, standards bodies, multilateral networks, or professional associations operating under high scrutiny.<\/li>\n
        • Partnerships leadership in regulated or audit-heavy environments (financial services, development finance, critical infrastructure), with strong 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: scales membership without compromising independence, neutrality, or safety.<\/li>\n
          • Neutral operator: avoids favoritism, pay-to-play dynamics, and preferential access.<\/li>\n
          • Process excellence: builds pipelines, playbooks, dashboards, and closure discipline.<\/li>\n
          • Handling maturity: understands confidentiality, market sensitivity, and safe external communication.<\/li>\n
          • Strong writing: clear onboarding materials, eligibility notices, and public-safe partnership 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, recusal, and conduct requirements.<\/li>\n
            • Not placed in a situation where service creates unmanageable conflicts, compromises neutrality, or creates regulated-activity ambiguity.<\/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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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