{"id":1029657,"date":"2026-01-01T07:40:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/?post_type=job_listing&p=1029657"},"modified":"2026-01-01T07:41:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T07:41:48","slug":"chair-of-community-indigenous-council-cic-chair-gra","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/job\/chair-of-community-indigenous-council-cic-chair-gra\/","title":{"rendered":"Chair of Community & Indigenous Council (CIC Chair)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Position:<\/strong> Community & Indigenous Council Chair (CIC Chair) \u2014 Global Risk Alliance (GRA) \/ Nexus Governance System
Type:<\/strong> Equity, safeguards, and do-no-harm governance leadership role for finance-linked programs (non-executive; strictly non-executing)
Board:<\/strong> Council leaders are considered for Board 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 safeguards escalations, grievance matters, and high-impact releases)
Apply here:\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/job\/chair-of-community-indigenous-council-cic-chair-gra\/<\/p>\n

Context and Purpose<\/h4>\n

Finance-linked resilience programs fail when they are socially illegitimate: when communities experience harm without remedy, when participation is symbolic, when data is extractive, or when \u201creadiness\u201d and monitoring systems amplify inequity. In a financial services context, these failures become not only ethical failures but also conduct risk, reputational risk, litigation risk, and program failure<\/strong>\u2014blocking adoption and undermining long-term capital formation.<\/p>\n

The GRA Community & Indigenous Council Chair (CIC Chair) is the equity, legitimacy, and safeguards anchor for GRA\u2019s finance-facing governance. The role ensures that standards, diligence artifacts, monitoring packs, and disclosure posture embed do-no-harm requirements, protected participation, and credible grievance\/remedy pathways\u2014so finance usability does not come at the cost of rights, safety, or legitimacy.<\/p>\n

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

Key Responsibilities<\/h4>\n
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  • Define and enforce do-no-harm requirements for finance-linked governance outputs, including risks of exclusion, stigmatization, retaliation, displacement, or the publication of exploitable vulnerabilities.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure safeguards are applied early (design stage), not only after harm occurs; maintain explicit \u201cstop-the-line\u201d thresholds for inadequate safeguards.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure outputs include equity impact considerations: who benefits, who bears risk, who is excluded, and what mitigations are required.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure protected participation is real and safe: informed participation pathways, anti-retaliation posture, safe channels, and respectful convening practices\u2014especially for vulnerable groups.<\/li>\n
  • Prevent tokenism by ensuring community and Indigenous inputs can materially change outputs where warranted, and by documenting how inputs were addressed.<\/li>\n
  • Ensure representation integrity: participation is legitimate and not selected for convenience or reputational cover.<\/li>\n
  • Oversee grievance and remedy pathways (with appropriate officers\/functions): recorded intake, time-bound routing, reasoned outcomes, and verifiable remedy actions (corrections, withdrawals, additional safeguards, disclosure changes).<\/li>\n
  • Ensure remedy processes do not expose complainants or communities to further risk; maintain confidentiality and handling posture appropriate to locality-sensitive information.<\/li>\n
  • Enforce data ethics and locality-sensitive handling: least-privilege access, controlled sessions where needed, strict public-safe publication posture, and guardrails against extractive data practices.<\/li>\n
  • Coordinate with handling\/security and communications integrity functions to prevent disclosure of sensitive locations, vulnerabilities, or community-identifying details that create harm or exploitation risk.<\/li>\n
  • Enforce neutrality and anti-capture posture: prevent dominance by advocacy blocs, funders, political interests, or commercial actors; manage conflicts and recusal rigor.<\/li>\n
  • Drive participation growth and seat completeness for community\/Indigenous roles across geographies while maintaining strong independence and 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 (safeguards frameworks, grievance\/remedy operations, participation protocols, localization playbooks), 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 safeguards and legitimacy layer that makes finance-linked resilience programs adoptable, durable, and ethically defensible.<\/li>\n
      • Shape grievance and remedy architecture that turns participation into enforceable accountability\u2014reducing conduct and reputational risk for the entire ecosystem.<\/li>\n
      • Embed equity and do-no-harm into diligence and monitoring standards so capital can scale without harm externalization.<\/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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        • Indigenous governance, community leadership, rights-based safeguards, and participatory accountability systems.<\/li>\n
        • Social safeguards, grievance mechanisms, remedy verification, and ethical governance in high-impact programs.<\/li>\n
        • Community-centered resilience, disaster risk reduction, climate adaptation, or humanitarian accountability under scrutiny.<\/li>\n
        • Multi-stakeholder convening requiring neutrality, confidentiality, and disciplined documentation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Capabilities and Mindset<\/h4>\n
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          • Rights- and harm-aware judgment: identifies latent harms and insists on mitigations before release.<\/li>\n
          • High-integrity convening: protected participation, non-extractive engagement, and legitimacy-first posture.<\/li>\n
          • Calm escalation leadership: can manage disputes and remedy pathways without exposing communities to added risk.<\/li>\n
          • Documentation discipline: converts lived impact into testable safeguards, conditions, and traceable outcomes.<\/li>\n
          • Boundary discipline: maintains strict non-execution posture and resists both commercial and advocacy capture.<\/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, representation mandates) 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-1029657","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\/1029657","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\/1029657\/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=1029657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-categories?post=1029657"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=1029657"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_tag?post=1029657"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_career_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_career_level?post=1029657"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_experience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_experience?post=1029657"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_qualification","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therisk.global\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_qualification?post=1029657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}