Director, State 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.

The Global Advocacy & Influence Department is a dynamic team that uses the power of IRC’s ideas to solve the biggest challenges facing IRC’s clients. From the drivers of conflict to the needs displaced people, the team partners with politicians, policy makers and civil society to bring these solutions to life. We take pride in being solutions-oriented and creative. We are precise in our tactics, and messages.

We lead change year over year, knowing that system change takes dedicated focus while maintaining the flexibility to respond to emerging needs. Finally, we are collaborative, working not only with programs, strategy, research and innovation, and communications teams across the IRC, but also externally, constantly seeking new ideas and perspectives from others in the humanitarian sector and beyond.
** Job Overview/Summary
** The Director, State Advocacy will lead  development of state and local Resettlement, Asylum, and Integration (RAI) Policy and Advocacy strategies, managing at least one full time staff, and directly engage with RAI program offices, strengthening the Policy and Advocacy team’s capacity to provide direct advocacy support throughout the network and providing tools, resources and learning support to build advocacy capacity among staff throughout the RAI network, advancing policy and programmatic goals in tandem.

This role serves as a key external representative of the IRC- engaging with coalition partners, policy makers, and other stakeholders to drive change. The Director facilitates these engagements by playing a direct role with IRC’s network of U.S. offices. The Director will collaborate closely with colleagues in the RAI federal policy and advocacy team and the RAI program delivery team.
** Major Responsibilities:**•   
*** Advocacy Strategy***:
Develop and oversee implementation of a multi-year advocacy strategy, in close collaboration with global policy leads, policy communications and digital communications, to advance IRC’s key influence priorities and maximize the opportunity for IRC to advance our influence objectives.
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*** Advocacy:
*** Build and manage IRC’s credibility, profile and relationships with key US stakeholders in support of advocacy strategies on IRC’s priority issues. Spot and deliver on external opportunities to advance IRC’s profile, policy and influence objectives; advise on IRC positioning and prioritization vis a vis the US Government and Congress. Direct executive branch and legislative initiatives and represent the IRC at key meetings and fora.

Partner and coordinate with the RAI US network on legislator engagement to drive or prevent policy.
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*** Influence Analysis***:
Lead the strategy for influence and development of power maps for key policy issues to identify influence priorities and targets, and to develop and execute creative influence strategies, including with nontraditional partners. Continuously ideate and identify new approaches and partners that go beyond advocacy as usual.
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*** Legislative and Policy Tracking:
*** Oversee the expansion of IRC’s legislative reach by tracking, understanding and anticipating: policy trends and shifting government positions;…