Senior Program Officer, Social Impact

If you think you have what it takes but don't necessarily meet every single point listed below, please apply - you could be exactly who we are looking for! 

Panorama is a platform for social change dedicated to solving the world’s most intractable problems. Our goal is to maximize social impact by partnering with visionary leaders, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector to co-develop solutions with audacious thinking, radical collaboration, and bold action.  Panorama’s value proposition is helping partners to operate in smarter, more impactful, and more efficient ways.  

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 clients through audacious thinking, and  
• Panorama Action, which mobilizes voices and resources through bold action.   

Position Summary 

Are you a creative problem solver, an adaptive team leader and a strong collaborator? Are you a master-doer with a knack for building community, trust, capacity, and problem-solving to help organizations leverage greater impact? Do you thrive on fellowship, facilitation, and catalyzing support across a field or sector of leaders to learn from each other’s experiences and level up their management and influence? Do you have experience designing programs or networks with an equity lens and managing concurrent cohorts, chapters, or courses? Are you a critical thinker with a penchant for data analysis and synthesis of trends and insights? 
 

Our dynamic, growing organization seeks a Senior Program Officer to join the Social Impact Department that will manage a portfolio of projects ranging on topics across gender equality and global health. This role will manage program strategy, execution and documenting impact. We are looking for someone experienced in program management, complex stakeholder management, facilitation, and capacity strengthening.  
 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities 
 

Strategic Leadership & Partnership Engagement   

• Serve as project lead managing complex partners and donors to drive an ecosystem approach to collaboration. 

• Cultivate alignment of key stakeholders to collectively drive ecosystem initiative priorities and ensure messaging and activities are coordinated, strategic, and targeted to meet impact goals, advocacy priorities, and resource mobilization efforts.   

• Ensure effective communication with leadership, donors, and other collaborators on progress and challenges, creating solutions to problems before they arise. 

• Lead and support the advancement of impactful advocacy strategies and opportunities, coordinating across global, regional, and local platforms. 

Program Oversight & Coordination  

• Lead on all coordination efforts for projects, supported by a Project Manager, including meeting agendas, tracking action items, creating communication tools and resources, etc. to support global partnership collaboration.  

• Oversee robust Monitoring, Learning, and Evaluation plans to ensure accountability, track progress, and evaluate key milestones.  

• Develop well-informed communications strategies that drive equity and responsiveness to the needs of stakeholders and consider global context/broader perspectives.   

• Lead on complex event and international travel planning.  

• Strong facilitation skills and experience with structuring programming for large cohorts from diverse backgrounds and needs.  

• Oversight and accountability for sub-awards to key ecosystem partners and engaging donor and other technical partners in ensuring activities and collaboration opportunities are effectively executed on priority areas. 

• Partner with Finance and Operations team to implement grantmaking operations and communicating with applicants and grantees.  

• Experience structuring and contributing to grantee engagement communications and resources. 
   

Knowledge Management 

• Identify and lead on uplifting grantee partner stories, progress, and opportunities through communication tactics leveraging the partnership’s individual and collective voice and platforms. 

• Capture insights and trends from partnerships to share with other practitioners and key stakeholders in a cohesive and compelling narrative. 

• Synthesize sector knowledge and develop methods to share with the Panorama team, partner organizations, and external audiences. 

• Partner with the External Affairs Team and other Panorama teams to develop knowledge products and implement dissemination plans, including capturing the reach and impact of our work. 

Personnel Management 

• May manage Individual Contributors and/or Interns, ensuring Panorama’s performance management concepts are upheld, and supporting their professional development and learning.  

• Manage across team members and departments within Panorama, serving as a strong collaborator and partner. 

• Manage external consultants and vendors across various workstreams as needed. 

Organizational Engagement & Participation   

• Exemplify qualities of Panorama’s Values, Culture and Mission as an impact player who embraces everyday challenges and ambiguity as opportunities to lean in and take action, and demonstrates curiosity and commitment to asking questions, learning, and adapting. 

• Actively contributes to the enhancement of Panorama’s culture by participating in organizational and team activities such as committee volunteerism, coffee chats, and other initiatives.  

• Serve as an organizational brand ambassador by representing the organization externally.    

• Contribute to opportunities for process improvement and service/practice strengthening towards evolving our platform for social change.   

• As needed, provide timely inputs for co-design and development of initiatives, proposals, briefings/debriefs, reports, and knowledge sharing efforts.   

• Provide required timely and accurate recording of data and other information via Harvest, Salesforce, Lattice, SharePoint, and Certify.   
   

Typical Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities 

Education & Experience 

• Bachelor’s degree and ten years of relevant professional experience or equivalent combination of experience, education, and/or training.  

• Experience with complex stakeholder management and driving collaboration to bring groups together.  

• Experience with collaborative program design, strategic advocacy, implementation, management, monitoring and evaluation. 

• Demonstrated proficiency in crafting clear, compelling messages tailored to various stakeholders.  

• Experience working in global health and with organizations from low- and middle-income countries.  

• Demonstrated success in global advocacy initiatives, showcasing expertise in navigating diverse cultural landscapes, engaging with international stakeholders, and supporting impactful campaigns on a global scale.  

• Fluency in written and spoken English.  

• Proficient in Microsoft Office products. 

Ideal Candidate Qualities 

• Strong execution skills, including attention to detail and the ability to balance workload under deadlines and with multiple priorities. 

• Strong communicator with exceptional interpersonal and relationship-building skills, adept at conveying complex information clearly to diverse audiences and discerning when over-communication is necessary. 

• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and Panorama’s values. 

• Able and excited to work in unstructured/ambiguous situations, creatively solve problems, and make recommendations.  

• Takes initiative, works proactively, and is mindful of how work may require or impact others 

• Highly reliable and able to manage multiple projects and priorities adeptly. 

• Ability to translate broad visions and ideas into concrete proposals with clear deliverables, timelines, and budgets. 

Compensation & Benefits 

The starting salary for this role is between $105,000 and $112,000. When determining an initial offer, we carefully consider these factors: candidate skill and experience; room for growth within the band; and internal equity across the team. 

Alongside salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits package including:   

• Hybrid work arrangement for Seattle-based employees; remote work arrangement for all other US-based locations 

• Flexible paid time off 

• 16 paid holidays per year, including an organization-wide Winter Break. 

• Up to 92% employer-paid monthly premiums for employee medical coverage (depending on plan selected)  

• 401(k) safe harbor plan, with employer contribution equal to 3% salary with immediate vesting  

• Up to 12 weeks fully paid family/medical leave (eligible after 1 year of employment)  

• ... And more! Visit our Careers Page for our full list of benefits     

How to Apply 

Interested candidates should submit a resume and optional cover letter through our Careers Page portal. 

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled. 

Panorama is committed to creating a diverse team and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We know that representation matters in the workplace and with our partners; to that end we are committed to a hiring process grounded in equity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, citizenship or immigration status, national origin, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, political ideology, the presence of any physical, mental, or sensory disability, age, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. 

Panorama complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact our People & Culture team at [email protected]. 

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Panorama participates in the federal E-Verify system. All candidates should review the E-Verify Participation and Right to Work posters for more information. 

Final offer will be contingent on the completion of a successful background check.