{
    "position": {
        "id": "ON-SP-7701",
        "slug": "director-of-ethics-and-governance",
        "title": "Director of Ethics & Governance",
        "division": "strategy-policy",
        "region": "emea",
        "level": "principal",
        "location": "Zürich, Switzerland",
        "site": "Headquarters campus",
        "clearance": "None",
        "employment": "Full-time · On site",
        "travel": "Regular — divisional sites and regulators",
        "reports_to": "Office of the Chief Executive",
        "featured": false,
        "summary": "Run the office that decides what the company is prepared to build and on what terms. The post carries a standing right of review over every programme and a reporting line that does not pass through the programmes it reviews.",
        "responsibilities": [
            "Own the governance framework covering autonomous action, dual-use research, and human-subjects work.",
            "Chair the review body and rule on escalated programme questions.",
            "Maintain the disclosure position — what is said, what is withheld, and the reasoning for each.",
            "Advise the executive on programmes that should be declined or discontinued.",
            "Build the office's capability so that review is technically informed rather than procedural."
        ],
        "required": [
            "Fifteen or more years across research governance, regulatory affairs, law, or applied ethics in a technical organisation.",
            "Demonstrated authority exercised against commercial or programme pressure.",
            "Technical literacy sufficient to read a system design and ask the right question.",
            "Excellent written reasoning — the office's output is its arguments.",
            "Willingness to have the final position attributed to you."
        ],
        "preferred": [
            "Experience in defence, biomedical, or nuclear governance.",
            "Standing with an external regulator or standards body.",
            "Background that spans both institutional and academic settings."
        ],
        "team": "Ethics & Governance is a small standing office within Strategy & Policy with an independent reporting line. It has existed continuously for decades and its rulings are archived.",
        "notes": "No clearance is required for the post itself; access arrangements for cleared programmes are handled separately and are sponsored.",
        "division_label": "Strategy & Policy",
        "region_label": "EMEA",
        "level_label": "Principal",
        "url": "role.php?job=director-of-ethics-and-governance",
        "apply": "mailto:careers@omninova.global?subject=Application%20%E2%80%94%20Director%20of%20Ethics%20%26%20Governance%20%28ON-SP-7701%29"
    }
}