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Position:<\/strong> President \/ Chief Steward \u2014 The Global Centre for Risk & Innovation (GCRI) \/ Nexus Governance System
Type:<\/strong> Strategic scientific, standards, and integrity governance 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> ~20 hours per month (build-year cadence; surge leadership during escalations\/events)
Apply here:\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/job\/president\/<\/p>\n

Context and Purpose<\/h4>\n

Today\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

GCRI and the Nexus governance system are being established to build and steward the public-good \u201cevidence and governance rail\u201d for modern risk and resilience: standards, methods, datasets, assurance, and record-valid determinations that can be trusted, audited, corrected, and used\u2014without compromising sovereignty, safety, or legitimacy.<\/p>\n

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 \u201ccount\u201d only when properly recorded, distributable, and correctionable. This role is governance leadership\u2014not execution<\/strong>. It does not underwrite, place, broker, custody, operate markets, steer procurement, select vendors, or imply endorsement.<\/p>\n

Key Responsibilities<\/h4>\n
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  • Chair the council system and its leadership rhythm; set annual and quarterly priorities; maintain disciplined cadence across councils, working groups, and special sessions.<\/li>\n
  • Resolve systemic conflicts and deadlocks, especially where integrity, safety, neutrality, and interoperability collide.<\/li>\n
  • 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.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure that governance actions and determinations are valid only when properly recorded: authority chain, quorum\/votes, recusals, rationale, outcomes, and distribution completion.<\/li>\n
  • Sponsor the operating discipline that prevents informal decisions, side-channel commitments, or unrecorded commitments.<\/li>\n
  • Require explicit correction and supersession traceability for changes; prohibit silent edits.<\/li>\n
  • Enforce strict non-execution boundaries and prevent regulated activity within governance functions.<\/li>\n
  • Prevent vendor capture, procurement steering, implied approvals, or \u201cbadge-for-money\u201d dynamics.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure that outputs remain usable by governments and licensed executors without<\/strong> endorsement, placement, or execution.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure protected participation is real: safe channels, retaliation prevention, grievance intake, time-bound remedy processes, and credible enforcement ladders.<\/li>\n
  • Maintain do-no-harm posture across public communication, evidence use, and convening design, including escalation and \u201cstop-the-line\u201d authority when necessary.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure sensitive materials and discussions are handled under clear handling rules (least-privilege distribution; controlled sessions; disciplined publication posture).<\/li>\n
  • Protect the system\u2019s credibility by ensuring external references are public-safe, correctly disclaimed, and never based on restricted materials without clearance.<\/li>\n
  • 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.<\/li>\n
  • Strengthen onboarding throughput and participation quality while maintaining rigorous independence and conflict controls.<\/li>\n
  • Sponsor quarterly learning cycles and governance improvement: what worked, what failed, what was corrected, and what standards\/processes must evolve.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure credibility is maintained through transparent correction practices, clear disclosure boundaries, and consistent enforcement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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

    This role is designed to be trust-maximizing and capture-resistant.<\/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, or influence. No success fees. No pay-to-approve.<\/li>\n
    • Operational workload may be compensated (where permitted).<\/strong> 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\u2014scoped, time-bounded, deliverable-based, independently approved, and auditable.<\/li>\n
    • Expenses may be reimbursed.<\/strong> 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.<\/li>\n
    • Standing and independence apply.<\/strong> Continued service depends on remaining in good standing, meeting disclosure obligations, and maintaining independence consistent with the organization\u2019s integrity requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Opportunities for Leaders to Join<\/h4>\n
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      • Institution-building leverage:<\/strong> shape a governance and evidence rail intended to become the global reference layer for risk, resilience, and readiness\u2014built for auditability, correctionability, and safe reliance.<\/li>\n
      • High-trust convening platform:<\/strong> 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.<\/li>\n
      • Reputational integrity premium:<\/strong> operate within a system that treats corrections, due process, and handling discipline as core strength, not administrative burden.<\/li>\n
      • Network and partnership depth:<\/strong> collaborate with leading institutions and domain leaders across government, academia, operators, civil society\/media, and community\/Indigenous governance.<\/li>\n
      • Governance pathway:<\/strong> performance in this role is a primary pathway to consideration for deeper governance responsibilities (without implying entitlement).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Leaders Profile<\/h4>\n

        We are seeking a senior \u201csystems steward,\u201d typically with 15+ years of leadership and public credibility across one or more of:<\/p>\n

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

          Capabilities and Mindset<\/h4>\n
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          • Integrity-first judgment:<\/strong> comfortable stopping releases, demanding corrections, and resisting pressure.<\/li>\n
          • Governance engineering:<\/strong> can convert principles into operational cadence, records discipline, and enforceable controls.<\/li>\n
          • Neutral convenor:<\/strong> can bridge divergent stakeholders without brokering deals or crossing into execution.<\/li>\n
          • High accountability:<\/strong> clear writing, disciplined decisioning, strong follow-through, and comfort with public scrutiny.<\/li>\n
          • Long-term institution builder:<\/strong> sees this as a multi-decade public-good infrastructure effort.<\/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 commit sustained time at the expected load.<\/li>\n
            • Willing to fully disclose relevant interests and abide by conflict-of-interest and recusal requirements.<\/li>\n
            • Not placed in a situation where service creates unmanageable conflicts or compromises neutrality.<\/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","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1025225,"template":"","meta":{"_promoted":"","_job_location":"","_application":"contact@therisk.global","_filled":0,"_featured":1,"_remote_position":1,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":"","_hours":"","_rate_min":"","_rate_max":"","_salary_min":"","_salary_max":"","_apply_link":"","_job_cover_image":"","_company_manager_id":"1025233"},"job-categories":[167],"job-types":[253],"job_listing_tag":[],"job_listing_career_level":[245,98],"job_listing_experience":[33],"job_listing_qualification":[43,58,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-1029583","1":"job_listing","2":"type-job_listing","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","5":"hentry","6":"job_listing_category-governance","7":"job_listing_type-leadership","8":"job_listing_career_level-leader","9":"job_listing_career_level-senior","10":"job_listing_experience-10-years","11":"job_listing_qualification-associate-degree","12":"job_listing_qualification-doctorate-degree","13":"job_listing_qualification-master-degree","15":"job-type-leadership","16":"job_position_featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/1029583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/1029583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-categories?post=1029583"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=1029583"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_tag?post=1029583"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_career_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_career_level?post=1029583"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_experience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_experience?post=1029583"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_qualification","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_qualification?post=1029583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}