Strategy and Planning Senior Officer, Global Policy & Advocacy

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 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.

• 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 organizational strategies and Department-wide objectives.
• Develop and facilitate activities and processes across Policy and Advocacy teams:
  Facilitate and maintain efficient ways of working within, across, and with the Policy and Advocacy teams as appropriate.
• Identify and elevate collaboration challenges and develop ways of working systems to address those issues.
• Ensure ways of working are routinely updated to address feedback from team members and represent team in org-wide, multi-departmental process conversations.
• Manage long-term projects:
  Own project management, strategic content development, and logistics for key team efforts such as the Annual Planning and Quarterly Pause processes, retreat planning, and others.
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration and communication:
  Create tools and processes for effectively sharing information and collaborating internally, communicating with IRC stakeholders routinely, and managing workflows in a streamlined and smooth manner.
• Facilitate regular, effective, and efficient communication between team members and from organizational leadership to the rest of the teams, cascading information from ER leadership, finance, and HR as necessary.
• Manage the internal website and routine reporting to senior leaders.
• Develop deep understanding of Policy and Advocacy priorities and strategies in order to communicate effectively about team objectives and outcomes with internal stakeholders through reporting processes, internal websites, email and other means as appropriate.
• Lead KPI development and progress tracking:
  Working with the VP and members of the Policy and Advocacy team develop a set…