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About the Role

The Strategy and Planning Senior Officer will lead strategic planning and prioritization efforts for the Policy & Advocacy team. This role involves coordinating organization-wide strategy and investment planning, collaborating on team prioritization, and managing strategy development processes. The position requires maintaining crucial processes and relationships and collaborating across all levels within and across teams at the IRC.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate priority-setting processes, translating organization-wide strategy into department strategies, market-specific advocacy priorities, and thematic policy areas.
• Lead strategy development processes, supporting the creation of actionable policy and advocacy strategies with stakeholder mapping, activity planning, product development, and metrics.
• Lead Policy and Advocacy engagement in organization-wide annual planning, linking to multi-year organizational strategies and Department-wide objectives.
• Develop and facilitate activities and processes across Policy and Advocacy teams, ensuring efficient ways of working and addressing collaboration challenges.
• Manage long-term projects including Annual Planning, Quarterly Pause processes, and retreat planning.
• Facilitate cross-team collaboration and communication by creating tools and processes for information sharing and workflow management.
• Communicate regularly with IRC stakeholders, manage workflows, and maintain the internal website and routine reporting to senior leaders.
• Develop a deep understanding of Policy and Advocacy priorities and strategies to effectively communicate team objectives and outcomes.
• Lead KPI development and progress tracking, working with the VP and team members to establish objectives and KPIs for reporting.
• Plan and facilitate quarterly internal progress reviews of individual strategies and associated metrics.
• Ensure KPIs and reporting metrics are logical, consistent, and regularly reported on.
• Support a positive team culture by acting openly and collaboratively, supporting colleagues, and sharing credit.
• Organize team retreats, staff meetings, team building activities, and trainings.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, Political Science or other related field.
• 5-6 years work experience, with experience in policy and advocacy preferred.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, including juggling competing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Experience designing and implementing strategic planning processes and progress metrics.
• Positive, resourceful, and flexible attitude with the ability to problem-solve.
• Ability to work productively in a team environment or independently.
• Ability to take initiative in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with or experience in policy analysis or advocacy to high-level policymakers and thought leaders.
• Strong project management skills, ideally within a cross-organizational team.
• Solid English language writing and editing skills with a focus on details.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to develop and manage complex relationships.
• Familiarity with or proven interest in humanitarian aid sector, foreign policy, and/or refugee issues.
• Fluency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to learn online web-based applications.
• Ambition to learn and grow skills by taking on challenging tasks.
• Commitment to advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion at the IRC and in the humanitarian field.
• Lived experience with conflict or crisis-driven displacement, resettlement, asylum, immigration or migration is an asset.

Skills

• Strategic planning
• Prioritization
• Process management
• Stakeholder mapping
• Activity planning
• Product development
• Metrics development
• Project management
• Cross-team collaboration
• Communication
• Reporting
• KPI development
• Progress tracking
• Teamwork
• Organizational skills
• Time management
• Problem-solving
• Interpersonal skills
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint

Location

• United States of America

Work Type

• Hybrid office work environment
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 5-6 years work experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree

Salary/Compensations

• $92,000 - $99,000/yr

Benefits

• 10 paid sick leave
• 10 U.S. holidays
• 20-25 generous paid time off based on role and tenure
• Medical insurance starting at $163/month
• Dental starting at $6.50/month
• Vision starting at $5/month
• Flexible spending accounts (healthcare, dependent care, and commuter)
• 403(b) retirement savings plan with employer match (immediate vesting)
• Non-elective employer contribution to 403(b) based on age and years of service (3-year vesting)
• Disability and life insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

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 helps people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities.
• IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions.
• The External Relations (ER) Department mobilizes external audiences to raise funds, influence policies, and achieve practice changes to improve outcomes for clients, while growing and protecting the global brand.
• The Global Policy & Advocacy team leverages IRC’s ideas to solve challenges facing clients across the “arc of crisis” and influence external stakeholders, particularly governments and multi-lateral institutions.
• The team partners with innovative thinkers, experts, and those with lived experience to identify solutions and bring them to life.
• The team is solutions-oriented, creative, precise in goals, tactics, and messages, and drives change year over year.
• The team is collaborative, seeking new ideas and perspectives from others in the sector and beyond.
• IRC workers adhere to the core values and principles outlined in the IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct: Integrity, Service, Equality, and Accountability.
• IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation.
• IRC is committed to taking necessary preventive measures and creating a safe environment, and taking corrective actions when harm occurs.
• IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to clients.

Equal Opportunity

• IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.