Senior Officer, Technical Partnerships, VPRU+

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world's largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you're a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a dynamic Senior Officer, Technical Partnerships to lead on bringing together internal IRC teams to ensure the continued growth and development of strategic new business opportunities and meet our private fundraising ambitions. The Senior Officer is expected to oversee a portfolio including several key funding priorities, with some potential evolution of portfolio makeup as needed. This individual will play a central role driving IRC’s ambitious Impact @ Scale plans and will serve on the agile team models that will support this initiative. The Senior Officer will be an integral part of a matrix management structure to bring private fundraising, technical units, and Impact @ Scale priorities together. This role is part of the Program Services team, which aims to provide the High Value Fundraising teams (Philanthropy, Trusts & Foundations, and Corporates) with best-in-class support in a single, unified service model. The role is managed in partnership between Program Services and the IRC’s Violence Prevention and Response (VPRU) Technical Unit (TU).

The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial professional who has demonstrated experience with global Protection programming, as well as experience across strategic partnership development, programming, fundraising and communications channels while working with global, cross-cultural teams.

• The role will galvanize and work alongside IRC’s high-value fundraisers, Global Practice Leads, in-country and technical experts, and support teams to significantly raise the profile of, and increase revenue for Protection programming and key priority areas at the IRC.
• Influence and guide strategic private-sector engagement across fundraising priorities (30%)
• Work closely with the Associate Director, VPRU, and I@S Leadership to develop and implement BD strategy (I@S priorities and Outcome Strategies), including overseeing the development of strategic positioning materials and donor engagement plans to enhance IRC’s competitiveness in priority areas.
• Represent Impact @ Scale priority areas within agile teams and thought leadership working groups.
• Influence resource-mobilization strategies for I@S, help shape donor pathways geared toward scale, and support alignment across technical and fundraising teams for I@S pipelines.
• Work with GPLs, Regional Leads and fundraisers to shape project ideas, proactive messaging and materials, and funding need pitches to be poised for donor pitches.
• Demonstrate a strong command of current global thought leadership and advancements in applicable subject matter.

• Provide high-level advisory input to GPLs, and fundraising teams across priority areas.
• Maintain portfolio of support for key priority areas, including “ready for scale” priorities.
• Work alongside technical leads and the wider Marketing & Mobilization team to develop multifaceted and compelling materials that strike the balance between technical depth and clarity of vision for specific audiences, including strategic partnership development, ‘big bets’, and new prospects.
• In collaboration with other Program Services team members, support the creation of stewardship plans for restricted and loosely restricted donors in collaboration with account managers, donor engagement, and Impact @ Scale campaign teams.
• Lead and/or support proposal development processes as needed for Protection and other priority areas, bringing together teams across the organization – including senior leadership.
• As needed, participate in donor meetings providing technical expertise and strategy support, and/or connect relevant colleagues from across the TU to inform donor conversations, proposal design, and business development.
• Complement and amplify the capacity of the VPRU and fundraising teams to engage with and secure private donations by providing technical expertise, strategy support, and project alignment with donor interests.
• Maintain knowledge of IRC protection technical approaches, operating contexts, and sectoral trends to inform business development efforts.

• Help develop and operationalize standard ways of working and process workflows for cross-functional projects, including Impact @ Scale, between High Value, Marketing & Mobilization, VPRU, and other teams to grow overall funding, advance our private-sector partnerships pursuits, prioritize funding needs, increase efficiency, and ensure appropriate partner sign off.
• Ensure an outstanding level of support to our internal partners, including coordinating and leading effective cross-functional meetings, and ensuring decisions and follow up actions are taken in a timely manner.
• Work with TU and HV counterparts to create information sharing systems.

• For strategic partnerships, engage across the duration of a grant, in close coordination with the fundraising teams, Regional Support Managers (RSMs) and TU, to ensure donor requirements are met, compliance issues are raised as needed, and to design a creative, long-term engagement strategy to deepen donor dedication.
• As appropriate, provide post-award project management support on large strategic grants as requested from fundraising teams and VPRU.

• 6–7 years of related work experience, preferably with a large International Non-Governmental Organization in programs, fundraising and/or advocacy.
• Outstanding communication, relationship management, writing, and presentation skills.
• Experience with global protection programming in low-resource settings.
• Experience working with fundraising and grants management processes.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate around protection programming and strategy across both technical and lay audiences.
• Experience fundraising for protection or related programming; ability to quickly get up to speed on technical content and strategy.
• Excellent track record of delivering on sophisticated proposals and projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in international development, social work, or other relevant area, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience across strategic partnership development, program design and development, fundraising and communications channels.
• Experience developing and implementing multi-million-dollar partnerships.

• Knowledge of other IRC languages (Spanish, French, Arabic) would be an asset.
• The ideal candidate will have experience across strategic partnership development, programs, and fundraising.
• International experience across diverse contexts; working with global, cross-cultural teams.
• Master’s degree in related field or equivalent experience a bonus.

This role may require working remotely, and occasional travel. If remote, applicants must have a home or alternate workspace they can effectively complete their work from during regularly scheduled hours.

US Pay Range: $95,000 - $106,000 UK Pay Range: £55,000 - £64,000

All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.