Description
The International Rescue Committee’s approach to policy and advocacy places great focus on robust policy and solution development and strategic engagement with global policy makers. This role will be responsible for leading a team that will be developing scalable, high-impact and pragmatic solutions.
Major Responsibilities:
- Lead the Global Policy and Solutions team. Manage a diverse team of policy experts, ensuring cohesive policy strategies across global markets.
- Engage with Senior Policy makers across global markets.
- Balance long-term systemic change with near-term, politically feasible gains.
- Create events, policy convenings, and forums that bring together thought leaders in support of developing new ideas and cultivating new champions for IRC’s policy recommendations.
- Steward Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion both in the culture of IRC, as well as in the policy solutions we develop and ways we wield influence.
Policy and Solutions
- Create open and adaptive ways of working with IRC teams to continually assess the biggest challenges facing IRC's clients, IRC’s most effective solutions, and corresponding barriers to scale.
- Apply deep knowledge of political and power systems to co-develop surgical, specific and creative solutions in IRC’s priority policy areas.
- Lead cross-functional development of IRC’s signature policy products.
- Collaborate with the Communications leads to craft sharp and policy messages in op-eds, speeches, and briefings.
Key Working Relationships:
- Position reports to: Vice President, Policy & Advocacy
- Position directly supervises: Manages global policy team
- Internal contacts: Technical Excellence leads; International Programs leads; Communications; Awards Management; President’s Office
- External contacts: Key experts in academic, research/think-tanks, multi-laterals, governments, INGOs and beyond