President

Position: President / Chief Steward — The Global Centre for Risk & Innovation (GCRI) / Nexus Governance System
Type: Strategic scientific, standards, and integrity governance 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: ~20 hours per month (build-year cadence; surge leadership during escalations/events)
Apply here: https://therisk.global/work/job/president/

Context and Purpose

Today’s risk governance infrastructure was not built for compounding climate, systemic, technological, and socio-economic shocks. Evidence, models, and pilots remain fragmented, hard to reproduce, unevenly governed, and rarely designed to flow cleanly into lawful decisions or finance-usable actions.

GCRI and the Nexus governance system are being established to build and steward the public-good “evidence and governance rail” for modern risk and resilience: standards, methods, datasets, assurance, and record-valid determinations that can be trusted, audited, corrected, and used—without compromising sovereignty, safety, or legitimacy.

The President / Chief Steward is the apex convening and accountability role. The mandate is to steward coherence, integrity, and scale across the ecosystem; chair the top-level agenda; resolve systemic conflicts; enforce safeguards and due process; and ensure that decisions “count” only when properly recorded, distributable, and correctionable. This role is governance leadership—not execution. It does not underwrite, place, broker, custody, operate markets, steer procurement, select vendors, or imply endorsement.

Key Responsibilities

• Chair the council system and its leadership rhythm; set annual and quarterly priorities; maintain disciplined cadence across councils, working groups, and special sessions.
• Resolve systemic conflicts and deadlocks, especially where integrity, safety, neutrality, and interoperability collide.
• Maintain clarity of purpose and scope across the governance machine: what the system will and will not do, what constitutes an acceptable output, and what must be paused.
• Ensure that governance actions and determinations are valid only when properly recorded: authority chain, quorum/votes, recusals, rationale, outcomes, and distribution completion.
• Sponsor the operating discipline that prevents informal decisions, side-channel commitments, or unrecorded commitments.
• Require explicit correction and supersession traceability for changes; prohibit silent edits.
• Enforce strict non-execution boundaries and prevent regulated activity within governance functions.
• Prevent vendor capture, procurement steering, implied approvals, or “badge-for-money” dynamics.
• Ensure that outputs remain usable by governments and licensed executors without endorsement, placement, or execution.
• Ensure protected participation is real: safe channels, retaliation prevention, grievance intake, time-bound remedy processes, and credible enforcement ladders.
• Maintain do-no-harm posture across public communication, evidence use, and convening design, including escalation and “stop-the-line” authority when necessary.
• Ensure sensitive materials and discussions are handled under clear handling rules (least-privilege distribution; controlled sessions; disciplined publication posture).
• Protect the system’s credibility by ensuring external references are public-safe, correctly disclaimed, and never based on restricted materials without clearance.
• Treat membership growth and seat completion as core leadership outcomes: build a high-trust, globally legitimate council system with the right coverage across sovereign/policy, research, operators, civil society/media, and community/Indigenous integrity functions.
• Strengthen onboarding throughput and participation quality while maintaining rigorous independence and conflict controls.
• Sponsor quarterly learning cycles and governance improvement: what worked, what failed, what was corrected, and what standards/processes must evolve.
• Ensure credibility is maintained through transparent correction practices, clear disclosure boundaries, and consistent enforcement.

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, approvals, recognition decisions, enforcement actions, standards outcomes, or influence. No success fees. No pay-to-approve.
• Operational workload may be compensated (where permitted). If the organization requires significant build-year operational leadership (production rhythm, convening delivery, crisis coordination, structured governance operations), compensation may be provided only for clearly defined operational services—scoped, time-bounded, deliverable-based, independently approved, and auditable.
• Expenses may be reimbursed. Reasonable, documented, pre-approved out-of-pocket expenses required for the role (e.g., essential travel or convening costs) 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 the organization’s integrity requirements.

Opportunities for Leaders to Join

• Institution-building leverage: shape a governance and evidence rail intended to become the global reference layer for risk, resilience, and readiness—built for auditability, correctionability, and safe reliance.
• High-trust convening platform: lead a rare cross-sector, cross-regional governance forum where sovereign constraints, scientific rigor, operational reality, transparency, and community protection are integrated into durable outcomes.
• Reputational integrity premium: operate within a system that treats corrections, due process, and handling discipline as core strength, not administrative burden.
• Network and partnership depth: collaborate with leading institutions and domain leaders across government, academia, operators, civil society/media, and community/Indigenous governance.
• Governance pathway: performance in this role is a primary pathway to consideration for deeper governance responsibilities (without implying entitlement).

Leaders Profile

We are seeking a senior “systems steward,” typically with 15+ years of leadership and public credibility across one or more of:

• Governance chairing of boards/councils, multilateral or standards bodies, high-stakes committees, or complex cross-sector coalitions.
• Public authority / regulatory / intergovernmental leadership with strong due-process instincts.
• Risk science, evidence assurance, standards governance, reproducibility/validation leadership, or trust infrastructure programs.
• Critical systems and resilience leadership (infrastructure, continuity, cascading risk, crisis governance).
• Safeguards, ethics, grievance systems, and legitimacy under scrutiny.

Capabilities and Mindset

• Integrity-first judgment: comfortable stopping releases, demanding corrections, and resisting pressure.
• Governance engineering: can convert principles into operational cadence, records discipline, and enforceable controls.
• Neutral convenor: can bridge divergent stakeholders without brokering deals or crossing into execution.
• High accountability: clear writing, disciplined decisioning, strong follow-through, and comfort with public scrutiny.
• Long-term institution builder: sees this as a multi-decade public-good infrastructure effort.

Eligibility, Membership, and Independence

• Holds a primary full-time role outside the council seat and can commit sustained time at the expected load.
• Willing to fully disclose relevant interests and abide by 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).