{"id":1029656,"date":"2026-01-01T07:43:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/?post_type=job_listing&p=1029656"},"modified":"2026-01-01T07:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:44:17","slug":"chair-of-civil-society-media-council-cmc-chair-gra","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/job\/chair-of-civil-society-media-council-cmc-chair-gra\/","title":{"rendered":"Chair of Civil Society & Media Council (CMC Chair)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Position:<\/strong> Civil Society & Media Council Chair (CMC Chair) \u2014 Global Risk Alliance (GRA) \/ Nexus Governance System
Type:<\/strong> Transparency, claims discipline, and market-facing communications 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> ~10\u201324 hours per month (build-year cadence; surge periods around releases, corrections, disputes, and market-sensitive communications)
Apply here:\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/job\/chair-of-civil-society-media-council-cmc-chair-gra\/<\/p>\n

Context and Purpose<\/h4>\n

In financial services, credibility is often lost through communication: when claims outrun evidence, when \u201crecognition\u201d is mistaken for endorsement, when disclosures are inconsistent, or when market-sensitive information is handled casually. Trust also erodes when civil society participation is symbolic\u2014without real mechanisms for challenge, correction, and remedy.<\/p>\n

The GRA Civil Society & Media Council Chair (CMC Chair) is the legitimacy and communications-integrity anchor for GRA\u2019s finance-facing governance. The role ensures that GRA\u2019s standards, diligence artifacts, and monitoring packs are communicated with precision: transparent where possible, protected where necessary, and always consistent with recorded decisions. The CMC Chair leads public-safe summaries, claims discipline, and accountability interfaces\u2014while enforcing strict non-execution boundaries and preventing advocacy or commercial capture from distorting governance outputs.<\/p>\n

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

Key Responsibilities<\/h4>\n
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  • Lead the production of public-safe summaries for finance-facing decisions and releases: what was approved, why, what evidence supports it, what limits apply, and what can change through correction.<\/li>\n
  • Define transparency minima and redaction logic that are consistent, defensible, and safe\u2014especially where market sensitivity, security, or controlled materials apply.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure communications are aligned to recorded decisions and approved disclosure posture; prevent side-channel statements or \u201csoft launches\u201d that create reliance risk.<\/li>\n
  • Enforce claims discipline across the ecosystem: prevent overstatement, implied endorsement, \u201cbadge misuse,\u201d selective quoting, and marketing language that misleads counterparties.<\/li>\n
  • Coordinate corrective statements, clarifications, and retractions when misinterpretation, misinformation, or errors arise; ensure corrections are coherent and time-bounded.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure disclaimers are clear and consistently used: governance outputs are standards and evidence structures, not transaction advice, not underwriting, and not endorsements.<\/li>\n
  • Convene civil society participation that is substantive and structured: integrate equity, accountability, and lived impact into finance-facing governance without politicization or capture.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure challenge and feedback pathways are real: recorded intake, time-bound responses, reasoned outcomes, and remedy routing when harm risk arises.<\/li>\n
  • Prevent tokenism: ensure civil society inputs can materially change outputs where warranted.<\/li>\n
  • Identify and mitigate do-no-harm communication risks: stigmatization, retaliation risk, exposure of vulnerable localities, publication of exploitable vulnerabilities, or market destabilization through careless disclosure.<\/li>\n
  • Coordinate with safeguards and handling\/security functions to maintain controlled collaboration and safe publication posture.<\/li>\n
  • Enforce independence and anti-capture posture: prevent dominance by advocacy blocs, funders, parties, commercial actors, or media agendas that compromise neutrality.<\/li>\n
  • Drive participation growth and seat completeness for civil society\/media roles across geographies and contexts, while maintaining rigorous conflict controls.<\/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 (safe summary templates, disclosure frameworks, claims controls, corrections communications), 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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      • Steward the legitimacy and communications layer that determines whether finance-facing governance can survive scrutiny by regulators, boards, civil society, and markets.<\/li>\n
      • Build a world-class claims discipline framework that prevents misrepresentation and reduces reliance and litigation risk.<\/li>\n
      • Convene civil society and media into a structured governance function that can improve transparency and accountability without destabilizing neutrality.<\/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 leaders (typically 12\u201320+ years) with credibility across one or more of:<\/p>\n

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        • Civil society leadership in accountability, integrity, rights-based safeguards, or resilience governance.<\/li>\n
        • Journalism, editorial leadership, investigative reporting, or media governance with strong integrity standards.<\/li>\n
        • Public disclosure, communications integrity, or stakeholder accountability frameworks in high-scrutiny environments.<\/li>\n
        • Multi-stakeholder convening where neutrality, confidentiality, and disciplined documentation are required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Capabilities and Mindset<\/h4>\n
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          • Truth and trust orientation: precise, careful, resistant to hype and overclaims.<\/li>\n
          • Strong editorial judgment: knows what to publish, what to withhold, and how to explain limits and uncertainty.<\/li>\n
          • Harm-aware communicator: understands information hazards, market sensitivity, and retaliation risks.<\/li>\n
          • Neutral convenor: can hold diverse viewpoints without advocacy capture or politicization.<\/li>\n
          • Record-based communication discipline: aligns messaging strictly to what is approved and recorded.<\/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, publication incentives) 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-1029656","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\/1029656","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\/1029656\/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=1029656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-categories?post=1029656"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=1029656"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_tag?post=1029656"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_career_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_career_level?post=1029656"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_experience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_experience?post=1029656"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_qualification","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_qualification?post=1029656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}