Lead Advisor, Enterprise Risk Management (P5)

Save the Children

For over 100 years, Save the Children has been fighting for the rights of children. The right to a healthy start in life. To have access to education. To be in a safe environment, protected from harm. We work in some of the world’s hardest-to-reach places – over 100 countries, including the U.S. No matter what your role is, when you join Save the Children, you’re creating positive, irreversible change for children, and the future we all share.

The Role

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.

Location

Hybrid – Washington DC, Fairfield, CT or Lexington, KY office locations

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

*not inclusive of all role responsibilities. May be subject to change

Enterprise Risk Management Leadership

• 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.

Risk Reporting, Analysis, and Framework Effectiveness

• 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.

Capability Building and Risk Culture

• 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.

Required qualifications for the role

• 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

Preferred qualifications for the role

• Experience in international development or humanitarian assistance

Compensation 

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $143,650 - $160,550 base salary 
• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $130,900 - $146,300 base salary 
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $116,875 - $130,625 base salary 

The salary ranges listed above are for US based candidates. For candidates located outside of the US, salary ranges will be based on the salary scales of the local employer of record. Actual base salary may vary based on, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location (more information on job structure is available here).

About Us

We are looking to build an inclusive team at Save the Children. We offer a range of outstanding benefits to support this goal:

• Flexible schedules and time off: Flexible schedules, generous PTO, 11 paid holidays plus 2 floating holidays and hybrid working opportunities
• Health: Competitive health care, dental and vision coverage for you and your family
• Family: A variety of paid leaves: caregiver, parental/adoption, critical child illness and fertility benefits
• Employee Rewards Program: Annual merit increases and/or additional incentives for eligible employees
• Retirement: A retirement savings plan with employer contributions (after one year)
• Wellness: 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
• Employee Assistance Program: free and confidential assessments, short-term counseling, referrals, and follow-up services
• Learning & Growth: Access to internal and external learning & development opportunities and mentorships

Click here to learn more about how Save the Children US will invest in you.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.

If you require disability assistance with the application or recruitment process, please submit a request to applicantsupport@savechildren.org.

Salary : $116,875 - $160,550