Diplomacy Platform Lead / Host

Position: Diplomacy Platform Lead / Host — The Global Risks Forum (GRF) / Nexus Governance System
Type: Whole-of-society diplomatic convening, trust-building, and interoperability diplomacy leadership role (non-executive; strictly non-executing)
Board: Platform Leads are considered for senior council leadership and Board/Trustee nomination after serving in good standing
Location: International (distributed, hybrid; online + in-person convenings)
Term: 3 Years
Time commitment: ~20–40 hours per month (build-year cadence; surge periods around flagship diplomacy forums, cross-region convenings, and high-sensitivity dialogues)
Apply here: https://therisk.global/work/job/diplomacy-platform-lead-host/

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Context and Purpose

National de-risking cannot scale without trust across borders, sectors, and constituencies. Yet modern risk governance is often fractured: contested narratives, unequal voice, geopolitical spillovers, and weak dispute mechanisms erode cooperation. Many convenings default to power politics or elite networks, leaving whole-of-society legitimacy unbuilt.

The Global Risks Forum (GRF) is a whole-of-society standards-and-legitimacy forum within the Nexus governance system. GRF’s Diplomacy Platform is the frontier stage for structured trust-building: cross-constituency dialogue, interoperability diplomacy, conflict-sensitive convening, protected participation, and disciplined procedures that allow difficult conversations to produce legitimate, record-valid outputs—without becoming partisan, captured, or execution-oriented.

The Diplomacy Platform Lead / Host is accountable for end-to-end programming and growth of this platform: setting vision, curating and hosting convenings, building partnerships, producing open “trust and cooperation” governance assets, and expanding participation—while preserving neutrality, handling discipline, protected participation, and strict non-execution boundaries.

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Key Responsibilities

• Set the platform’s multi-year vision and annual program as a frontier global stage for whole-of-society diplomacy in national de-risking readiness.
• Define signature programming (flagship forum + quarterly cross-region dialogues) aligned to GRF standards, recognition cycles, and dispute clock discipline.
• Establish norms for diplomacy-grade convening: neutral posture, respectful process, protected participation, and safe-publication boundaries.
• Curate and host whole-of-society diplomacy forums, cross-region dialogues, trust-building roundtables, and conflict-sensitive listening sessions.
• Convene balanced representation across public authorities, research, operators, finance, civil society/media, and community/Indigenous leadership—preventing dominance by any bloc.
• Ensure convenings produce structured outputs: communiqués, procedural recommendations, interoperability guidance, and public-safe summaries.
• Produce an “open diplomacy stack” to help countries and institutions cooperate on de-risking readiness, including:
  • dialogue formats and convening playbooks for contested issues
  • cooperation templates (non-exclusive, governance-only) and engagement charters
  • trust and grievance routing guidance (protected participation and remedy pathways)
  • interoperability diplomacy briefs: how standards/recognition can be referenced across contexts without loss of meaning
  • correction and supersession guidance for communiqués and diplomacy artifacts
• Ensure outputs are versioned, traceable, and correctionable; prohibit silent edits and ambiguous “consensus claims.”
• Maintain do-no-harm posture: prevent convenings from exposing vulnerable groups or creating retaliation risk.
• Maintain handling discipline: controlled sessions where required; clear public-safe publication posture; disciplined drafting and distribution.
• Enforce COI/recusal and anti-capture controls; prevent diplomacy forums from becoming influence marketplaces or sponsor-controlled stages.
• Coordinate with Safeguards & Remedy and Dispute functions to route sensitive matters through formal, time-bound processes.
• Build partnerships with diplomacy and dialogue institutions, cross-sector convening networks, community protection organizations, and professional associations (governance-only, non-exclusive).
• Recruit and steward contributor pools: facilitators, moderators, rapporteurs, and cross-cultural convening specialists with handling maturity.
• Own platform growth KPIs: participation, retention, geographic and constituency coverage, and quality of outcomes.
• Provide structured inputs into GRF instruments: improvements to due process, dispute clocks, protected participation, and recognition legitimacy.
• Coordinate with Communications Integrity to ensure public statements are bounded, neutral, and do not imply endorsements or political alignment.
• Sponsor quarterly learning loops: what dialogue formats worked, what caused harm risk, what must be corrected, and what should be standardized.

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Compensation, Remuneration, and Expenses

• Governance authority is not paid. No compensation is linked to recognition outcomes, enforcement actions, dispute results, political outcomes, market outcomes, or influence. No success fees.
• Operational workload may be compensated (where permitted). Platform programming and production may be compensated only as time-bounded, deliverable-based operational services, independently approved, auditable, and never tied to substantive governance outcomes.
• Expenses may be reimbursed if documented, pre-approved, and policy-compliant.

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Opportunities for Leaders to Join

• Build and host a frontier global stage for whole-of-society diplomacy that strengthens national de-risking readiness through trust.
• Publish open convening playbooks and cooperation templates that countries and institutions can reuse without losing legitimacy.
• Create a neutral platform where contested issues can be processed into record-valid, publishable outcomes with safe participation.
• Strengthen interoperability and adoption by reducing narrative conflict and increasing procedural fairness.

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Leaders Profile

We are seeking senior leaders typically with 12–20+ years across one or more of:

• international or cross-sector convening leadership under scrutiny
• mediation, dialogue facilitation, and conflict-sensitive process design
• public legitimacy systems, dispute procedure governance, and protected participation frameworks
• cross-cultural institution building and coalition governance

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Capabilities and Mindset

• Diplomatic neutrality: avoids partisan alignment and bloc capture.
• High procedural integrity: designs processes that participants accept as fair even when outcomes are contested.
• Safety-first: strong protected participation instincts and handling maturity.
• Output-driven: convenings produce reusable playbooks, templates, and communiqués—not only conversations.
• Correction-positive: updates and supersedes outputs transparently when learning requires changes.

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Eligibility, Membership, and Independence

• Holds a primary role outside the platform seat and can sustain cadence and surge periods.
• 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 confidentiality, handling discipline, and communications integrity expectations.
• Commits to remain in good standing (participation, disclosures, and applicable contribution obligations).