Working Group Chair (Integration Lead)

Position: Working Group Chair (Integration Lead) — The Global Risks Forum (GRF) / Nexus Governance System
Type: Standards integration, cross-council synthesis, and coherence governance 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: ~15–28 hours per month (build-year cadence; surge periods around quarterly cycles, policy releases, and cross-council escalations)
Apply here: https://therisk.global/work/job/working-group-chair-integration-lead-grf/

Context and Purpose

Whole-of-society risk governance fails when standards and decisions fragment: competing definitions, inconsistent levels, duplicated processes, and incompatible outputs across councils and regions. In such systems, disputes multiply, participation erodes, and external stakeholders lose confidence because outcomes cannot be compared or relied upon consistently.

The Global Risks Forum (GRF) is the standards, assurance, and public legitimacy pillar of the Nexus governance system. It stewards the shared governance language—recognition states, conformance levels, evidence quality levels, claim rules, dispute clocks, and due-process discipline—so outputs across the ecosystem remain auditable, correctionable, and safe for lawful reliance without collapsing governance into execution.

The Working Group Chair (Integration Lead) is responsible for the coherence of the GRF standards system: ensuring that profiles, levels, claims rules, and due-process procedures work together as one integrated “assurance language,” and that cross-council outputs converge rather than conflict. The role ensures GRF remains interoperable across sectors and regions and that changes are introduced through disciplined governance, not informal drift.

This is governance—not execution. The role does not run programs, select vendors, steer procurement, provide regulated services, or imply endorsement.

Key Responsibilities

• Chair GRF integration working groups and maintain an active pipeline of coherence dockets: definitions harmonization, levels alignment, claims-rule consistency, and cross-council interface design.
• Ensure the assurance language is internally consistent: no contradictory level meanings, overlapping badges, or incompatible recognition states.
• Maintain an interoperability posture across domains and regions: publish and maintain integrated profiles that can be adopted without bespoke translation.
• Translate council inputs into coherent standards outputs: reconcile divergent priorities (public authority legitimacy, scientific rigor, operational feasibility, finance usability boundaries, civil accountability, community safeguards).
• Maintain a structured “integration register” of open issues, conflicts, and resolutions; ensure decisions are properly recorded and distributed.
• Prevent fragmentation: identify early signals of forking, incompatible local variants, or “shadow standards,” and route them to formal correction or harmonization pathways.
• Own change-control discipline for integrated standards: versioning, compatibility rules, deprecation schedules, and transition guidance.
• Ensure correction and supersession traceability for all integrated profiles and guidance; prohibit silent edits and undocumented meaning shifts.
• Coordinate with dispute/appeal functions to ensure standards ambiguity is identified and resolved through formal mechanisms.
• Ensure claims discipline across councils: alignment of what can be claimed at each level, how evidence quality supports claims, and what disclaimers are mandatory.
• Build integrated templates and toolkits that reduce operational overhead: checklists, decision records, public-safe summaries, and distribution controls.
• Support membership growth and seat completion by making participation “usable”: clear artifacts, predictable processes, and reduced duplication.

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, recognition outcomes, enforcement actions, dispute results, standards outcomes, market outcomes, or influence. No success fees. No pay-to-recognize.
• Operational workload may be compensated (where permitted). If build-year operational work is required (integration backlog management, profile drafting operations, transition guidance, publication discipline), compensation may be provided only for clearly defined operational services—scoped, time-bounded, deliverable-based, independently approved, and auditable, with conflict 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 GRF integrity requirements.

Opportunities for Leaders to Join

• Become the “coherence architect” of a whole-of-society assurance language used to compare and trust risk and readiness outputs globally.
• Reduce fragmentation and adoption friction by creating integrated profiles and templates that can be used across jurisdictions and sectors.
• Shape change-control and compatibility discipline that makes standards reliable and correctionable over time.
• Strong performance positions leaders for senior stewardship roles and board consideration (without implying entitlement).

Leaders Profile

We are seeking a senior standards integrator and cross-domain governance leader, typically with 12–20+ years across one or more of:

• Standards bodies, certification systems, assurance frameworks, or multi-stakeholder governance programs.
• Cross-domain systems integration (science/tech + policy + operations + finance + civil accountability).
• Governance design for levels/badges, claims rules, dispute processes, and version control in high-scrutiny settings.
• Program or portfolio leadership requiring harmonization of multiple working groups and stakeholder constituencies.

Capabilities and Mindset

• Systems thinking: sees interdependencies and resolves conflicts without losing meaning.
• Precision in definitions: intolerant of ambiguity that creates reliance risk.
• Change-control discipline: builds versioning, compatibility, and transition planning into everything.
• Neutral convenor: integrates inputs without capture, favoritism, or bloc dominance.
• Strong writing: produces profiles, guidance, and templates that are clear, adoptable, and audit-friendly.

Eligibility, Membership, and Independence

• Holds a primary full-time role outside the council seat and can commit sustained time at the expected cadence.
• 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 strict confidentiality, handling discipline, and communications integrity expectations.
• Commits to remain in good standing (participation, disclosures, and applicable contribution obligations).