Lead Advisor, Enterprise Risk Management (P5)
About The Position
As the Lead Advisor, Enterprise Risk Management, you’ll be integral to our work in helping vulnerable children achieve a brighter future. You will provide subject matter expertise and hands-on support to advance the Agency’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) program. This role partners closely with senior leadership and risk owners to identify, assess, and monitor key enterprise risks, strengthen mitigation strategies, and enhance organizational resilience. The role is responsible for developing meaningful risk reporting and analysis that highlight trends, emerging risks, and interdependencies to inform leadership decision making. It also supports alignment across risk-related functions to ensure a coordinated, enterprise-wide approach. Additionally, you will help build a strong risk-aware culture by creating practical tools, guidance, and training, and by serving as a trusted resource to teams across the organization to enable effective, risk-informed decision making.
Requirements
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 10 years of relevant experience
- 10+ years of work experience, including 5 years of relevant experience working in or leading a risk management function in a nonprofit
- A sound understanding of risk principles, and modern risk thinking and execution
- Demonstrated experience designing new risk/ERM resources and materials from scratch
- Excellent communications skills, including the ability to communicate risk information in straightforward, jargon-free terms
- Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
- Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
Nice To Haves
- Experience in international development or humanitarian assistance
Responsibilities
- Provide leadership and subject matter expertise for the organization’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) function, ensuring it continues to mature in alignment with organizational strategy, operating context, and governance expectations.
- Advise the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and the Audit & Risk Management Committee (ARC) on enterprise risk matters, supporting a dynamic, forward-looking approach to identifying, prioritizing, and managing risk.
- Strengthen enterprise-level operational resilience by ensuring the SLT has a clear view of the organization’s most significant risks, including changes over time and the effectiveness of mitigation strategies.
- Partner with SLT Risk Owners to review evolving risk assessments; develop, document, and periodically refresh critical mitigation plans; identify emerging risks and potential new mitigations; and assess whether additional organizational support or resources are needed.
- Serve as the focal point for engagement with SCI on shared and interdependent risks, ensuring those risks are clearly understood, consistently assessed, and appropriately managed across organizational boundaries.
- Design, produce, and deliver high-impact enterprise risk reporting for the SLT and ARC, emphasizing trends, interdependencies, emerging risks, and actionable insights rather than static risk inventories.
- Lead targeted “Deep Dive” analyses on priority risk themes, providing the Board and leadership with the transparency, context, and analysis needed to govern confidently—particularly during periods of strategic, operational, or external change.
- Support alignment and integration across risk-related second- and third-line functions to promote a coherent, enterprise-wide understanding of risk and avoid unnecessary duplication or burden.
- Embed risk-aware thinking across the organization by developing practical tools, templates, guidance, and training that enable staff at all levels to identify, discuss, and manage risk in a proportionate and constructive way.
- Serve as an accessible resource and thought partner to teams across the organization, supporting risk-informed decision-making while ensuring the ERM function adds value and does not create unnecessary organizational drag.
Benefits
- Flexible schedules
- Generous PTO
- 11 paid holidays plus 2 floating holidays
- Hybrid working opportunities
- Competitive health care, dental and vision coverage for you and your family
- A variety of paid leaves: caregiver, parental/adoption, critical child illness and fertility benefits
- Annual merit increases and/or additional incentives for eligible employees
- A retirement savings plan with employer contributions (after one year)
- 15 safety and wellness days annually (if hired on or after July 1, safety and wellness days prorated to 8 days)
- Mental health benefits and support through Calm and company-hosted events
- Free and confidential assessments, short-term counseling, referrals, and follow-up services
- Access to internal and external learning & development opportunities and mentorships
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
