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About the Role

The Managing Director (MD) is IRC DE’s most senior leader and its primary external representative, accountable for the overall strategic direction, financial health, programme quality, and operational effectiveness of IRC DE. The MD acts as the bridge between IRC DE and global headquarters, supported by a senior management team.

Responsibilities

• Serve as IRC DE's primary external representative with key institutional donors, the Bundestag, and the media.
• Build and maintain high-quality relationships to improve IRC DE's standing, secure diversified funding, and ensure compliance with statutory and reporting requirements.
• Represent IRC effectively in German civil society to advance policy objectives.
• Act as a credible and effective public spokesperson on refugee, development, and humanitarian issues in German media.
• Develop and execute a corporate and private fundraising strategy to reduce dependence on single funding sources and build financial resilience.
• Act as an ambassador with corporate and foundation partners and private funders, cultivating relationships for sustained financial support.
• Effectively engage with opinion-forming partners and networks to protect and enhance IRC DE's reputation among private sector audiences.
• Lead, motivate, and develop a senior management team, setting clear direction and navigating a complex, matrixed global organization.
• Build and sustain a high-performing, inclusive culture within IRC DE, implementing the organization’s Gender, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (GEDI) strategy.
• Provide clear accountability frameworks, regular feedback, and meaningful professional development for direct reports and the wider team.
• Shape and steward IRC DE's multi-year strategy, translating it into actionable priorities, budgets, and plans aligned with client needs and global programs.
• Identify and assess growth opportunities and monitor external conditions, adapting strategic direction as circumstances require.
• Hold accountability for IRC DE's performance across program quality, advocacy outcomes, public profile, and financial sustainability.
• Ensure IRC DE operates within all relevant German statutory, regulatory, and quality frameworks, maintaining robust controls, an ethical fundraising culture, and sound risk management.
• Work effectively within the structures linking IRC DE and IRC's global functional departments, ensuring timely escalation of risks and developments and engaging the supervisory board.

Requirements

• A substantial track record of at least ten years in senior roles, including meaningful experience leading sizeable teams and operating in a complex, matrixed, or multi-site organization.
• Ability to align diverse teams around shared goals.
• Existing relationships with relevant decision-makers in German federal or state government, the Bundestag, or major private sector stakeholders, with verifiable outcomes.
• Demonstrable track record of success building funding streams in the private space (Corporates, HNWI, Foundation, Mass Markets).
• Demonstrable track record of successful relationship building, including securing multi-year funding from institutional donors and leveraging civil society coalitions.
• Experience as a public spokesperson and advocate on humanitarian, development, refugee, integration, or related topics.
• Experience stewarding stable relationships with a Supervisory Board and Works Council.
• Fluency in German and English, with the ability to communicate persuasively in both languages in high-stakes environments (written and spoken) is essential.
• Sufficient Financial Fluency for financial reporting and budget management.
• Experience leading organizational change and navigating uncertainty.
• Ability to adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct.

Skills

• Strategic leadership
• Fundraising and business development
• Influencing and negotiation
• Communication (outstanding written and verbal in German and English)
• Team development
• Cultural competency
• Commitment to mission

Location

• Berlin

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior roles (at least ten years)

Salary/Compensations

• 120,000 Euro gross per year

About the Company

• 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.
• IRC Deutschland (“IRC DE”) was established in Berlin in 2016 and has grown to a team of around 190 people.
• IRC DE's programmes focus on education, economic wellbeing, safety, legal protection and empowerment, supporting refugees and people affected by displacement across Germany.
• Funding raised in Germany supports IRC's humanitarian response and programming in crisis-affected regions around the world.
• The IRC Way, our code of conduct, is founded upon our core values of Integrity, Accountability, Service and Equality.

Equal Opportunity

• As an organization committed to an empowering work environment, equal opportunities, and against any form of discrimination, we welcome applications from people regardless of their origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities, age, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.
• We particularly encourage people with personal or family experience of forced displacement and migration to apply.
• With equal qualifications, we give preference to applications from people with severe disabilities.
• To ensure equal opportunities, we kindly ask you to refrain from including photos in your application documents.