Deputy President

Position: Deputy / Acting President (Continuity Lead) — Global Risk Alliance (GRA) / Nexus Governance System
Type: Financial-market governance continuity and escalation 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: ~15–25 hours per month (build-year cadence; surge leadership during escalations/events and transition coverage)
Apply here: https://therisk.global/work/job/deputy-president-gra/

Context and Purpose

In financial services, governance fails most often under stress: market shocks, disaster activation windows, cyber incidents, liquidity freezes, sanctions surprises, or contested disclosures. In those moments, systems drift—records slip, conflicts are mishandled, communications get ahead of approvals, and “temporary exceptions” become precedent. The result is reputational damage, regulatory exposure, and loss of trust exactly when trust is most needed.

The Deputy / Acting President (Continuity Lead) is the continuity backbone of GRA’s finance-facing governance. The role ensures leadership redundancy, escalation control, and operating discipline across absences, transitions, surges, and crisis tempo—so that finance-usable outputs remain validity-by-record, neutral, auditable, and correctionable under pressure. This is a governance role—not execution. It does not underwrite, place, broker, custody, operate markets, provide regulated advice, steer procurement, select vendors, or imply endorsement.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain continuity of leadership coverage: acting protocols, delegated authorities, surge routines, and “who chairs when” clarity across national/regional/global interfaces.
• Act as President/Chief Steward when required—chairing sessions, running the playbook, and enforcing the same boundary, handling, and due process posture.
• Operate the escalation “front door” for integrity, safety, disputes, claims/communications issues, conflicts of interest, and market-sensitivity risks.
• Triage and route escalations to the correct control functions (records, handling/security, safeguards/remedy, COI/ethics, due process, communications integrity) with clear clocks, owners, and closure criteria.
• Maintain an escalation log that is decision-grade: what happened, what was decided, what was deferred, what must be corrected, and what must be disclosed (or withheld).
• Enforce validity-by-record under pressure: no decision, exception, or release proceeds without authority chain, quorum, recusals, rationale, outcomes, and distribution completion.
• Prevent side-channel commitments to institutions, funders, or market participants; ensure neutral access and equal treatment in governance processes.
• Require explicit correction and supersession traceability for changes; prohibit silent edits and “quiet revisions” of finance-facing artifacts.
• Guard the non-execution boundary in crisis tempo: prevent drift into transaction advice, placement, underwriting, market operation, or deal steering—even when stakeholders demand urgency.
• Enforce neutrality and competition-safe convening across financial institutions and operators; prevent capture, preferential access, procurement steering, and vendor favoritism.
• Protect handling and disclosure discipline: controlled sessions where needed, least-privilege distribution, and public-safe communications posture—especially around market-sensitive or security-relevant content.
• Coordinate corrective statements and retractions when misinterpretation, misinformation, or errors arise; ensure communications align strictly to recorded decisions.
• Support membership health and seat readiness: ensure deputy coverage for critical roles, prevent single points of failure, and coordinate rapid vacancy closure with secretariat and competence functions.

Compensation, Remuneration, and Expenses

This role is designed to be trust-maximizing and capture-resistant in a financial services context.

• Governance authority is not paid. Compensation is never linked to votes, approvals, recognition decisions, enforcement actions, standards outcomes, market outcomes, or influence. No success fees. No pay-to-approve.
• Operational workload may be compensated (where permitted). If sustained continuity operations are required (escalation management, surge coordination, crisis governance operations, continuity drills), compensation may be provided only for clearly defined operational services—scoped, time-bounded, deliverable-based, independently approved, and auditable, with conflicts 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 integrity and conduct requirements.

Opportunities for Leaders to Join

• Build the continuity spine that keeps finance-facing governance credible under stress—where most institutional failures occur.
• Operate at the highest-leverage intersection of records discipline, handling discipline, due process, disclosures, and corrections—designed for scrutiny by boards, regulators, and audit committees.
• Shape escalation and crisis governance routines that reduce systemic risk and prevent reputational spirals during shocks.
• Strong performance positions leaders for broader chairing responsibilities and board consideration (without implying entitlement).

Leaders Profile

We are seeking senior leaders (typically 12+ years) with credibility across one or more of:

• Chief-of-staff, governance secretariat leadership, or board/council operations in financial services or standards bodies.
• Crisis governance, incident management, operational risk, business continuity, or market/communications escalation systems.
• Compliance, conduct, audit, or risk governance roles requiring strong procedural fairness and record discipline.
• Multi-stakeholder convening where neutrality, confidentiality, and disciplined documentation are essential.

Capabilities and Mindset

• Calm under pressure: steady judgment, high discretion, and disciplined triage.
• Process-exact: treats records, handling, due process, and neutrality as non-negotiable operating requirements.
• Closure-driven: converts ambiguity into tracked decision paths with owners, clocks, and acceptance criteria.
• Integrity-first: willing to stop the line, escalate breaches, and insist on correction.
• Neutral convenor: can coordinate powerful stakeholders without dealmaking, preferential access, or execution drift.

Eligibility, Membership, and Independence

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