Description
The Strategy & Delivery Unit is a high-profile team that partners with the IRC’s Executive Board and senior leaders to translate IRC’s mission into actionable priorities. As Senior Strategy Manager, you will play an important role in delivering IRC’s most critical strategic priorities. You will lead complex, cross-functional projects, support senior leaders in decision-making, and manage others in the SDU as needed to deliver high-quality, evidence-based solutions that drive organizational performance and impact.
Key Responsibilities:
- Project Delivery & Problem-Solving:
- Manage and oversee large, complex projects, taking ownership for timely, high-quality delivery
- Generate actionable insights and evidence-based user-centric solutions, informed by best practices, analysis and extensive consultation with IRC staff
- Apply structure to ambiguous, complex problems and facilitate structured problem-solving sessions with Strategy Unit members and IRC stakeholders
- Validate findings and recommendations with senior stakeholders, facilitating decision making and consensus building meetings on challenging topics
- Stakeholder Engagement & Team Leadership:
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders across the organization and advise senior decision-makers as needed
- Lead project teams, comprised of Strategy Unit members and often IRC subject matter experts; assign responsibilities, review work for quality, and sharpen the thinking
- Promote a positive, collaborative, efficient team working environment where team members enjoy working with each other, feel able to do impactful work and grow professionally over time, including through regular developmental feedback
Job Requirements:
- Work / Educational Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent
- Approximately 5–7 years of relevant experience, including at least 2 years in a strategy, consulting, or project management role, with a track record of high performance and increasing responsibility
- Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:
- Experience in executing strategic change and organizational change management
- Experience in managing large-scale, cross-functional projects in a fast-paced environment
- Strong organizational and time-management skills; proven ability to deliver on time and make progress against multiple simultaneous demands
- Strong analytical skills and natural ability to structure and creatively solve complex problems
- Experience working effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as an overall ability to be clear and concise in all communications
- Strong ability to influence and build credibility with senior stakeholders; confident communicating findings and recommendations to executive audiences
- Strong meeting facilitation and presentation skills
- Highly collaborative and able to work independently, in a dynamic, cross-functional global team structure
- Experience managing project teams and coaching more junior team members
- Ability to respond enthusiastically and positively to ambiguity, be resilient to shifting priorities and setbacks, and be comfortable with imperfect analysis and solutions
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite
Benefits:
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits package, including 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, and vision starting at $5/month, flexible spending accounts (healthcare, dependent care, and commuter), a 403(b) retirement savings plan with employer match (immediate vesting) along with a non-elective employer contribution based on age and years of service (3-year vesting), disability and life insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offering confidential counseling and support services for employees and their families