About Panorama Strategy

Panorama Strategy is a social impact consultancy that accelerates progress for partners through audacious thinking. We challenge our partners to consider creative solutions to pressing social problems, based in a spirit of equity, sense of urgency, and passion for possibility. Our commitment is to deliver customized actionable recommendations rooted in lessons learned and innovative thinking.

About Panorama

Panorama, also known as Panorama Group 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 codevelop 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.

Panorama is a community of organizations that include Panorama Strategy, a social purpose consultancy that accelerates progress for clients through audacious thinking, Panorama Global, a social impact nonprofit that empowers changemakers through radical collaboration, and Panorama Action, which mobilizes voices and resources through bold action. Read more about Panorama’s values and culture here.

This role is positioned at Panorama Strategy.

Position Summary

Are you a creative problem solver, strong collaborator, and a master doer? Do you thrive in a purposeful, bold, and agile culture that allows you to be curious to craft solutions to ambiguous and dynamic challenges? Are you passionate about the intersection of issue advocacy, strategic communications, research, policy, and stakeholder engagement? If so, we want you to join the Panorama Strategy team to help support organizations seeking to create a better future.

The Program Associate (PA) role will provide high-quality project management, strategic research and analytical input, and partner relation support for a portfolio of projects, which may include:

• Support of a global health roundtable of life science industry leaders that brings greater attention to and investment in interventions that will positively impact the world’s poorest populations, which includes working directly with the client to provide holistic project management across the roundtable operations (including complex scheduling), develop agendas and briefing materials for high-level convenings, and offer tailored support to workstreams related to COVID-19, neglected tropical diseases, and government affairs.

• Support a variety of partners with strategic planning processes to gain alignment on goals and activities by assisting in the development of workshops, facilitating working group sessions, drafting agendas and contributing to final deliverables.

This position reports to a Director. This position is open to being fully remote within the United States on a permanent basis.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain work plans, roadmaps, and other project management tools to support project and client teams
• Draft and edit a variety of materials to support partner initiatives, including written briefs, strategy documents, and meeting materials using PowerPoint
• Support multiple projects at one time and ensure high-quality communication and outcomes for internal and external stakeholders
• Independently conduct ongoing research and analytical support to inform projects’ strategic direction and deliverable development
• Manage the planning for high-level events, key meetings, convenings, and presentations which may include developing agendas, managing participant communication, handling logistics, and preparing and disseminating materials
• Collaborate with diverse stakeholders with comfort to develop and maintain healthy team dynamics and relationships

Typical Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor’s degree and at least three years of professional experience working on issues of international social impact or equivalent combination of experience, education, and/or training
• Experience cultivating and managing partnerships with high-level stakeholders
• Skilled in supporting a project or program from conception to implementation
• Adept in conducting detail-oriented research and summarizing findings, including capturing key takeaways for various audiences
• Knowledge of the global health and development landscape
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Desired Qualifications

• Consulting experience

This job description is subject to change at any time.

Compensation & Benefits

The starting salary for this position is $68,000 alongside a comprehensive benefits package including:

• 90-100% employer-paid monthly premiums for employee-only medical coverage depending on individual plan selection and 15% employer-paid contribution toward dependent coverage premiums
• 99% employer-paid monthly premiums for employee-only dental and vision coverage (family members can be added at employee cost),
• Flexible spending account options for health, dependent care, and transit
• 100% employer-paid monthly premiums for life insurance, short-term disability, and accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Employer-sponsored supplemental paid family medical leave benefit of up to 12 weeks after 6-months of employment
• 401(k) safe harbor plan with non-elective 3% employer contribution
• Employer subsidized wellness membership with ClassPass
• Up to $500/year per employee in matching contributions to eligible 501(c)(3) charitable organizations.
• 3 weeks/year of paid vacation, accrued sick leave, 9 company observed + 3 floating holidays (for 2022) + other paid time off for volunteering, jury duty, and bereavement
• Flexibility to work from home anywhere in the U.S. (we provide the technology)
• Commitment to professional development and growth

How to Apply

Interested candidates should submit a resume and cover letter on our Careers Page portal. Click on the Program Associate link under the Strategy department.

In your cover letter, please address the following questions:

• Why are you interested in working at Panorama Strategy?
• What applicable experience and skills would you bring to this role, specifically related to project management, stakeholder engagement, and/or strategic communications work?
• What do you hope this role could offer you to continue growing in your professional career?

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis with priority review for applications received by 5:00 PM PT on Monday, April 24, 2022. 

The hiring process for this role includes a phone screen, skills assessment, and interviews with the Panorama Strategy team.

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 hr@panoramaglobal.org.

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.