Senior Officer, Technical Partnerships; Economic Recovery & Development

Position: Senior Officer, Technical Partnerships (Economic Recovery & Development+)
Location: New York

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 (I@S) plans, a set of priority interventions that deliver outsized impact for every dollar invested, 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 I@S 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 Economic Recovery and Development (ERD) Technical Unit. The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial professional who has demonstrated experience with global Economic Recovery & Development and climate programming, as well as experience across strategic partnership development, , fundraising and communications channels while working with global, cross-cultural teams.
** Major Responsibilities:
** The role will galvanize and work alongside IRC’s high-value fundraisers, Global Practice Leads (GPLs), in-country and technical experts, and support teams to significantly raise the profile of, and increase revenue for ERD programming and key priority areas at the IRC.The major responsibilities will include:
** Influence and guide strategic private-sector engagement across fundraising priorities (30%)*
* • Work closely with the Associate Director, ERD, and I@S Leadership to develop and implement business development 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 I@S 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.
** Business Development (30%)*
* • 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…