{"id":1029654,"date":"2026-01-01T07:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/?post_type=job_listing&p=1029654"},"modified":"2026-01-01T07:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:50:19","slug":"chair-of-academia-research-council-arc-chair-gra","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/job\/chair-of-academia-research-council-arc-chair-gra\/","title":{"rendered":"Chair of Academia & Research Council (ARC Chair)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Position:<\/strong> Academia & Research Council Chair (ARC Chair) \u2014 Global Risk Alliance (GRA) \/ Nexus Governance System
Type:<\/strong> Model risk, evidence assurance, and quantitative integrity governance leadership 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> ~12\u201326 hours per month (build-year cadence; surge periods around model reviews, validation cycles, and corrections)
Apply here:\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/job\/chair-of-academia-research-council-arc-chair-gra\/<\/p>\n

Context and Purpose<\/h4>\n

Financial services can only adopt risk and resilience signals when they are defensible, reproducible, and fit for reliance<\/strong>. The most common failure mode is not a lack of models\u2014it is weak model governance: unclear lineage, untested assumptions, hidden bias, unbounded uncertainty, and changes that are not properly recorded or corrected. In regulated environments, these weaknesses become conduct risk, litigation risk, and capital misallocation.<\/p>\n

The GRA Academia & Research Council Chair (ARC Chair) is the model risk and evidence-assurance anchor of GRA\u2019s finance-facing governance. The role convenes scientific and quantitative leaders to ensure that risk indices, methodologies, and evidence packs used for finance interfaces meet a \u201creliance-grade\u201d standard: traceable lineage, reproducibility, uncertainty discipline, challenger review, and correctionability. The ARC Chair\u2019s focus is not academic novelty; it is audit-ready evidence governance<\/strong> that maps to financial services expectations (model risk management, validation, and disclosure).<\/p>\n

This is governance\u2014not execution. The role does not price risk, advise transactions, underwrite, place, broker, custody, operate markets, steer procurement, select vendors, or imply endorsement.<\/p>\n

Key Responsibilities<\/h4>\n
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  • Define and enforce evidence quality gates for finance-facing methodologies: lineage, reproducibility, uncertainty disclosure, limitations, drift monitoring posture, and controlled change management.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure model outputs are \u201cdecision-usable\u201d and \u201creliance-bounded\u201d: what they support, what they do not, and what conditions apply for safe use.<\/li>\n
  • Prevent black-box dependence, undocumented assumptions, and untestable claims from entering finance-facing governance artifacts.<\/li>\n
  • Establish structured review architecture appropriate to financial services: independent challenger review, replication, benchmarking, and adversarial testing where warranted.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure reviewer independence and conflict controls for contributors, validators, and reviewers; manage recusal and disclosure rigor.<\/li>\n
  • Route review outcomes into release gating, corrections, supersession, or withdrawal decisions with clear clocks and recorded rationale.<\/li>\n
  • Govern uncertainty, bias, and fairness posture in ways that matter for conduct and reliance: quantify uncertainty, disclose material limitations, and prevent misleading precision.<\/li>\n
  • Oversee change control: versioning, deprecation rules, and backward-compatibility posture where needed; prohibit silent edits.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure corrections discipline is visible and coherent: when errors or drift occur, publish or distribute correction notices consistent with handling rules and disclosure posture.<\/li>\n
  • Coordinate with operations and disclosure leads to ensure evidence packs are packaged for diligence: consistent annex structure, audit trail completeness, and clarity on assumptions\/inputs.<\/li>\n
  • Strengthen global research participation in a governance-safe way: create reviewer pools and replication capacity across regions, avoiding dominance by a single bloc or methodology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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

    This role is designed to be trust-maximizing and capture-resistant in a financial services context.<\/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, market outcomes, or influence. No success fees. No pay-to-approve.<\/li>\n
    • Operational workload may be compensated (where permitted).<\/strong> If build-year operational work is required (validation programs, benchmarking frameworks, replication systems, reviewer pool operations), compensation may be provided only for clearly defined operational services\u2014scoped, time-bounded, deliverable-based, independently approved, and auditable, with conflicts safeguards.<\/li>\n
    • Expenses may be reimbursed.<\/strong> Reasonable, documented, pre-approved out-of-pocket expenses required for the role 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 integrity and conduct requirements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Opportunities for Leaders to Join<\/h4>\n
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      • Build the model risk governance layer that makes risk and resilience evidence adoptable in regulated finance\u2014reproducible, auditable, and correctionable.<\/li>\n
      • Shape reliance-grade standards for indices and evidence packs that can be used consistently across institutions and jurisdictions.<\/li>\n
      • Convene challenger review and replication capacity as shared infrastructure\u2014reducing systemic model risk and improving decision quality.<\/li>\n
      • Strong performance positions leaders for broader chairing responsibilities and board consideration (without implying entitlement).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Leaders Profile<\/h4>\n

        We are seeking senior scientific and quantitative leaders (typically 12\u201320+ years) with credibility across one or more of:<\/p>\n

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        • Model risk management, validation, benchmarking, and quantitative governance in regulated institutions.<\/li>\n
        • Climate\/disaster risk modeling, infrastructure resilience analytics, systemic risk, complex systems, EO\/GIS, statistics, or applied AI\/ML in high-stakes environments.<\/li>\n
        • Governance of open datasets or methods frameworks adopted by multiple institutions.<\/li>\n
        • Multi-stakeholder scientific convening requiring neutrality, confidentiality, and disciplined documentation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Capabilities and Mindset<\/h4>\n
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          • Rigor with pragmatism: insists on validation and uncertainty discipline without academic paralysis.<\/li>\n
          • Correction-positive: treats correction and supersession as institutional strength.<\/li>\n
          • Independence under pressure: resists politicization, commercial capture, and reputational smoothing.<\/li>\n
          • Strong documentation instincts: can translate quantitative nuance into reliance-bounded governance artifacts.<\/li>\n
          • Neutral convenor: can manage reviewer conflicts and convene challenger pathways without favoritism.<\/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 cadence.<\/li>\n
            • Willing to fully disclose relevant interests (funding, affiliations, IP stakes, advisory roles) and comply with conflict-of-interest, recusal, and conduct requirements.<\/li>\n
            • Not placed in a situation where service creates unmanageable conflicts, compromises neutrality, or creates regulated-activity ambiguity.<\/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":1029372,"template":"","meta":{"_promoted":"","_job_location":"","_application":"public@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":"1029368"},"job-categories":[244,167],"job-types":[253],"job_listing_tag":[],"job_listing_career_level":[245,98],"job_listing_experience":[33],"job_listing_qualification":[43,45,58,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-1029654","1":"job_listing","2":"type-job_listing","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","5":"hentry","6":"job_listing_category-financial-services","7":"job_listing_category-governance","8":"job_listing_type-leadership","9":"job_listing_career_level-leader","10":"job_listing_career_level-senior","11":"job_listing_experience-10-years","12":"job_listing_qualification-associate-degree","13":"job_listing_qualification-bachelor-degree","14":"job_listing_qualification-doctorate-degree","15":"job_listing_qualification-master-degree","17":"job-type-leadership","18":"job_position_featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/1029654","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\/1029654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1029372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-categories?post=1029654"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=1029654"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_tag?post=1029654"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_career_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_career_level?post=1029654"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_experience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_experience?post=1029654"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_qualification","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_qualification?post=1029654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}