Resource Allocation Governance Blueprint Director

The mandate

This commission will create and test a governance blueprint for reallocating operating expense, investment and scarce capability as conditions change. The work is not a cost programme and does not include execution of allocation decisions. It must define who decides, what evidence is comparable, when commitments can move and how consequences are tracked.

Five artifacts make up the contract: decision-rights map, comparative evidence standard, allocation-cycle design, pilot record, and control-and-transfer handbook. The consultant will use a bounded pilot to prove that ongoing commitments can compete fairly with new proposals and that rejected choices leave a traceable rationale.

Milestones fall at weeks four, nine, fourteen, twenty and twenty-four. The Sponsor accepts decision rights and evidence; named executive owners accept the cycle design; the allocation forum accepts pilot and transfer. Acceptance requires reconciled resource totals, explicit authority, complete decision records, action tracking and internal facilitation of a repeat session.

Client dependencies are current authority terms, controlled resource baselines, named decision owners, approved strategic criteria and a pilot choice set. The consultant cannot resolve unclear executive authority by inventing governance. Such gaps must be escalated to the Sponsor and reflected in milestone status.

What you will own

• Map authority for retain, release, redirect, defer, stage and stop decisions across resource categories and horizons.
• Create evidence standards covering contribution, strategic relevance, risk, capacity, commitment, transition cost and reversibility.
• Reconcile available and committed resources so the forum cannot allocate capacity that exists only as an accounting assumption.
• Design a cycle with submission, independent challenge, decision, dissent, escalation, release and backcheck stages.
• Pilot at least eight choices, including continuing commitments, new requests and resources proposed for redeployment.
• Record financial and operating consequences for giving and receiving owners, with implementation accountability explicit.
• Establish controls preventing benefit duplication, premature release and quiet reinstatement of declined proposals.
• Transfer facilitation and record ownership through an internally led repeat session observed against a scorecard.

Candidate qualifications

• At least 15 years in FP&A, resource governance, portfolio finance or operating-model consulting at Director level.
• Evidence of designing allocation decision rights where unclear authority, not analysis, was the principal blockage.
• Expertise in comparative economics, controllability, commitment, transition effects, capacity readiness and opportunity cost.
• A case where you made ongoing commitments compete with new proposals and an incumbent allocation changed.
• Experience maintaining dissent and rationale without slowing governance into permanent consensus seeking.
• Ability to recognise executive authority questions and escalate them rather than designing beyond consulting mandate.
• Demonstrated transfer through internal facilitation of a real or simulated allocation cycle.

Working terms and boundaries

• The project runs six months at four days a week and comprises five milestones with named acceptors.
• Scope includes governance design, eight-choice pilot and transfer; budget approval and implementation of resource movements are excluded.
• The consultant can test analytical completeness but cannot assign executive decision rights or approve allocations.
• Authority terms, controlled baselines, decision owners, strategic criteria and pilot choices are client-provided inputs.
• Final acceptance requires a reconciled pilot, complete decision record, working controls and an internal repeat session.

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-CON-2026-LOS-55.