Resilience Scenarios and Contingency Economics Director

The mandate

The joint committee wants independent advice on the economics of resilience choices whose value appears mainly when disruption occurs. Management can identify protective actions, but comparing prevention, redundancy, recovery capacity and risk acceptance is difficult when costs are certain and benefits are conditional. The adviser will create a disciplined choice framework without claiming to predict disruptive events.

The standing question is which capabilities preserve the most decision time, cash and operating options across plausible compound stresses. Three days a week will support monthly committee preparation, scenario review and two structured rehearsals. Advice must state uncertainty and reveal dependencies between contingencies that cannot all be activated simultaneously.

This role confers no line authority, risk acceptance, investment approval or incident command. The Director can challenge financial assumptions, compare alternatives and recommend triggers through the Chair. Management owns preparedness and response; the board accepts residual exposure.

The ten-month engagement closes after two exercises and a capital-planning cycle. Renewal needs a fresh advisory question. Conflicts can arise through work for counterparties or providers whose arrangements feature in confidential contingency plans; all such relationships and interests require pre-access disclosure and possible recusal.

What you will own

• Build a resilience economics framework covering expected loss limitations, response lead time, option preservation, cash capacity and recovery trajectory.
• Compare prevent, absorb, transfer, substitute and recover choices without reducing low-frequency consequences to an unreliable single expected value.
• Identify common dependencies and capacity conflicts across contingencies that appear independent in separate plans.
• Design trigger ladders linking observable conditions to staged financial and operating choices, with accountable decision owners.
• Review eight preparedness cases for baseline, counterfactual, time-to-effect, residual risk and reversibility.
• Facilitate two compound-stress exercises and quantify how decision delay, bottlenecks and unavailable options alter financial outcomes.
• Recommend a protected contingency envelope with transparent release conditions and replenishment logic.
• Deliver a closing opinion on financial preparedness, explicitly distinguishing known limits from untested assumptions.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 18 years in strategic FP&A, resilience finance, risk economics or scenario advisory work.
• Evidence of valuing a resilience choice where expected-value analysis alone would have produced the wrong recommendation.
• Technical strength in contingent cash flows, decision lead time, option value, scenario ranges, capacity dependency and recovery curves.
• A case where two response plans competed for the same scarce capability and your analysis changed preparedness.
• Board advisory experience with clear separation between financial challenge, risk acceptance and incident authority.
• Skill in facilitating exercises that produce executable choices and evidence, not dramatic but untestable narratives.
• Full conflict disclosure regarding providers, counterparties or advisory relationships relevant to protected contingency arrangements.

Working terms and boundaries

• The advisory cadence is three days each week over ten months, including eight committee meetings and two Helsinki workshops.
• No line authority, risk acceptance, spending approval or incident command attaches to this appointment.
• Conflicts are refreshed before each protected scenario is released; recusal and restricted access are controlled by the Committee Chair.
• Technical continuity testing, insurance placement and operational plan ownership remain outside advisory scope.
• Completion requires eight reviewed cases, two recorded exercises, an accepted contingency-envelope recommendation and transferred challenge tools.

Application

Applications for this mandate are received in one way only: through the India Board Terminal's application process. It is automated end to end. Your Executive Passport travels to the mandate holder in its confidential form, your answers to the three questions below are read before anything else in your file, and every stage that follows is recorded on your applications page.

There is no address to write to and no intermediary to call. The mandate holder reads what the Terminal delivers and nothing else, which is what keeps the process the same for every applicant and keeps your name out of it until you release it. Applications close on 11 October 2026. Mandate reference FPA-ADV-2026-HEL-31.