About Panorama
Panorama is a platform for social change driven by audacious thinking, radical collaboration, and bold action. We help our partners navigate multiple pathways from vision to impact based on their needs. Our mission is to maximize social impact by partnering with visionary leaders to co-develop solutions to change systems. Panorama's value proposition is helping partners to operate in smarter, more impactful, and more efficient ways. Panorama's values are built on four core principles:
- Vision: See the big picture and examine all angles
- Integrity: Maintain trust and strive for excellence
- Partnership: Collaborate and foster meaningful relationships
- Impact: Act boldly and create a ripple effect.
The Panorama Group is a community of organizations that includes: • Panorama Global, a social impact nonprofit that empowers changemakers through radical collaboration,
- Panorama Strategy, a social purpose consultancy that accelerates progress for partners through audacious thinking, and
- Panorama Action, which mobilizes voices and resources through bold action.
Position Summary
The Enterprise Risk Manager is responsible for developing and maintaining processes for identifying, tracking, mitigating, and communicating enterprise risk for Panorama Global. Key areas for the role include risk management, entity compliance, data protection, cybersecurity, record retention, insurance, and state registrations. The Enterprise Risk Manager will support the Leadership Team's strategic decision-making and help inform organizational objectives and priorities based on collected risk assessments, which present both opportunities and challenges. As a member of Panorama's Operations Team, this role will work across Panorama organizations and in close collaboration with Business Strategy & Operations, Finance, Financial Planning & Analysis, Grants and Contracts, and PACT (People and Culture Team). This exempt, full-time position reports to the Vice President, Finance.
While this role is open to candidates based anywhere in the U.S., we prioritize hiring in Panorama's hub cities (Seattle, Denver, NYC, and Washington, DC).
If the hired candidate is based in one of Panorama's hub cities (Seattle, Denver, Washington, DC, and New York City), they are expected to work in the office four days per week starting in 2026. For Washington, DC, and Denver, this requirement will go into effect once the offices are established, no earlier than Q4 2026.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Enterprise Risk Management
- Design, implement, and continuously improve the organization's risk management framework to align with strategic objectives and regulatory requirements.
- Identify, assess, and monitor enterprise-wide risks, including financial, operational, strategic, compliance, and reputational risks.
- Develop and maintain risk registers, dashboards, and Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) to track exposure and mitigation progress.
- Assist in the preparation of comprehensive risk reports to senior leadership, the Board, and the Audit & Finance Committee.
- Coordinate with Associate Director, Grants & Contracts when appropriate to identify and resolve compliance and risk issues presented by agreements (including but not limited to permissible 501(c)(c) charitable activities, lobbying/political activity, fundraising, funding from governmental entities, and high-risk activities potentially impacting corporate insurance coverages).
- Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of the enterprise trademark strategy.
Operations and Policy Management
- Oversee organizational policies in data protection, cybersecurity, internal controls, record retention, urgent matters response, and more.
- Coordinate implementation of record retention and destruction practices across teams, including schedule tracking and routine clean-ups.
- Manage international entity governance and compliance under the direction of VP, Finance.
- Administer enterprise insurance programs, state registrations, and charitable registrations, including serving as the primary point of contact and maintaining organizational compliance calendars.
Compliance and Governance
- Conduct first-level legal reviews and collaborate with external legal counsel and internal teams on key risk and compliance matters.
- Act as the point of contact for data protection inquiries and GDPR compliance; ensure adherence to applicable laws, regulations, grant requirements, and industry standards.
- Support business continuity planning, crisis management, staff training, and emergency response efforts.
- Coordinate allocations and compliance requirements between the member organizations of the Panorama Group.
- Assist Board and Audit & Finance Committee governance activities, including preparation of materials, Board resolutions, annual conflict of interest review, and maintaining organizational records.
- Partner with the VP, Fiscally Sponsored Programs, to ensure sponsored proj