Deputy Director, Supply Chain Business Development and Program Delivery

Business Development & Resource Mobilization

Kenya + 2 more

Deputy Director, Supply Chain Business Development and Program Delivery

• International Rescue Committee

Posted 28 Aug 2026

Closing date 31 Oct 2026

The Deputy Director, Supply Chain Business Development and Program Delivery is a senior global role responsible for making IRC's supply chains fit for scale across its most ambitious health and humanitarian programming commitments. The role is designed to translate strategic program targets into operational supply chain solutions that work at country level and ensuring country realities shape global supply chain strategy in return.

• Leadership for Program Delivery
• The Deputy Director plays an active role in GSC’s business development (BD) function. Supply chain is an increasingly fundable programming area, with institutional donors such as ECHO, SIDA, Gates and non-traditional donors explicitly framing requirements around operational efficiency, commodity management, and supply chain innovation. Additionally, private and corporate donors have expressed specific interest in funding the optimization of health and emergency supply chains.
• Act as the primary GSC focal point within I@S agile working groups and cross-functional scaling teams, ensuring supply chain planning is embedded in program design from the outset and not treated as a downstream implementation task.
• Implement the strategic direction for cross-cutting supply chain enablers including pooled procurement, global pre-positioning frameworks, harmonized delivery models, and digital systems and oversee their development and rollout across priority country programs.
• Provide supply chain leadership and oversight for the addition of any new I@S Ready to Scale thematic areas, ensuring new commodities and delivery models are integrated into IRC's global supply chain architecture without creating fragmentation or duplication.
• Serve as GSC's coordinating focal point with the Research and Innovation Department, contributing to supply chain innovations including AI-enabled solutions.
• Business Development & Resource Mobilization
• Is responsible for operationalizing the BD strategy, assembling inputs to create compelling bids, gap filling in the BD process as needed/relevant, and driving ultimate bid success through correct donor intel and positioning, strong bid submission, and effective cross-functional collaboration.
• Flag, track and route relevant funding opportunities to GSC Leadership and work closely with internal stakeholders to plan for staff needs and business development capacity requirements to successfully write and budget for winning bids based on the pipeline
• Lead or co-lead the technical design of supply chain sections for proposals where GSC has a primary role, including narrative writing, logical framework development, and supply chain costing.
• Collaborating with program and business development leads to embedding supply chain considerations into program design, with specific attention paid to Impact at Scale initiatives
• Contribute to bid assessment, probability-of-winning analysis, and positioning strategy for supply chain funding opportunities with specific focus on I@S thematic areas
• Develop and maintain GSC supply chain capability statements and value propositions relevant to I@S programming areas, for use in capture and proposal development.
• Participate in the BD review cycle for proposals with significant supply chain components, ensuring technical quality and alignment with IRC’s global supply chain strategy.
• Mobilize opportunities with non-traditional partners such as Airlink to improve program delivery and increase cost savings
• Take the lead with External relations and other…