# Strategy and Planning Senior Officer

**Company**: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $92,000 - $99,000/yr
**Category**: Policy & Public Affairs
**Industry**: Non-profit

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## Description

The Strategy and Planning Senior Officer will lead on key strategic planning and prioritization efforts for the Policy & Advocacy team. The Senior Officer will coordinate portions of organization-wide strategy and investment planning, collaborate with the Vice President of Policy & Advocacy on team prioritization processes, and manage a collaborative but streamlined process for strategy development.

**Major Responsibilities:**

- Facilitate priority-setting processes: Translate organization-wide strategy and policy products into department strategies, market-specific advocacy priorities, and thematic policy areas of focus.

- Lead strategy development processes: Work closely with Policy and Advocacy team members to support the development of specific, actionable policy and advocacy strategies.

- Develop and facilitate activities and processes across Policy and Advocacy teams: Facilitate and maintain efficient ways of working within, across, and with the Policy and Advocacy teams.

- Manage long-term projects: Own project management, strategic content development, and logistics for key team efforts.

- Facilitate cross-team collaboration and communication: Create tools and processes for effectively sharing information and collaborating internally.

- Lead KPI development and progress tracking: Working with the VP and members of the Policy and Advocacy team develop a set of high-level objectives for teams alongside a more detailed set of KPIs.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, Political Science or other related field

- 5-6 years work experience, 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 ability to problem solve, work productively both in a team environment or independently as needed

- 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 to deliver on projects/strategies

- Solid English language writing and editing skills with a focus on details

- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to develop and manage complex relationships, including with high-level individuals

- Fluency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and ability to learn online web-based applications

## Skills

### Required
- strategic planning
- policy analysis
- advocacy
- project management
- Microsoft Office

### Nice to have
- experience in policy and advocacy
- familiarity with humanitarian aid sector
- foreign policy
- refugee issues

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