Strategy and Planning Senior Officer, Global Policy & Advocacy

Location: New York

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JRThe 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.
** Background**:
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) helps people affected by humanitarian crises to survive, recover and rebuild their lives. We deliver lasting impact by providing health care, helping children learn, and empowering individuals and communities to become self-reliant, always with a focus on the unique needs of women and girls. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, we now work in over 40 crisis-affected countries as well as communities throughout the U.S., Europe and Latin America.  

The External Relations (ER) Department mobilizes external audiences to raise the requisite funds, influence policies and achieve practice changes to improve outcomes for our clients, while growing and protecting our global brand. The Global Policy & Advocacy team is a dynamic part of the ER Department that leverages the power of IRC’s ideas to solve the biggest challenges facing IRC’s clients across the “arc of crisis” and influence external stakeholders, in particular governments and multi-lateral institutions, to enact these solutions to ultimately make meaningful change for our clients.

From addressing the drivers of conflict to meeting the needs of displaced people, the team partners with innovative thinkers, experts and those with lived experience to identify solutions and bring them to life. We take pride in being solutions-oriented and creative. We are precise in our goals, tactics, and messages. We drive change year over year, knowing that system change takes dedicated focus while maintaining the flexibility to respond to emerging needs across the globe.

Finally, we are collaborative, constantly seeking new ideas and perspectives from others in our sector and beyond as we work side by side with programs, strategy, communications and research and innovation teams across the IRC.
** Job Overview/

Summary:

** The Strategy and Planning Senior Officer will lead on key strategic planning and prioritization efforts for the Policy & Advocacy team. The Senior Officer will coordinate portions of organization-wide strategy and investment planning, collaborate with the Vice President of Policy & Advocacy on team prioritization processes, and manage a collaborative but streamlined process for strategy development. This person will maintain crucial processes and relationships and collaborate at all levels within and across the teams, and across the IRC.
** Major Responsibilities:**
* ** Facilitate priority-setting processes:
** Translate organization-wide strategy and policy products into department strategies, market-specific advocacy priorities, and thematic policy areas of focus.
* ** Lead strategy development processes:
** Work closely with Policy and Advocacy team members to support the development of specific, actionable policy and advocacy strategies, helping individual units develop strategies relevant to their priority issues and their geographic/political markets that include stakeholder mapping, activity planning, product development plans, and desired external change metrics as relevant. Lead Policy and Advocacy engagement in organization-wide annual planning processes, linking Policy and Advocacy planning to multi-year…