Senior Officer, Technical Partnerships, Economic Recovery & Development

Major Responsibilities

Influence and guide strategic private-sector engagement across fundraising priorities (30%)

• Develop and implement business development strategy for I@S priorities and Outcome Strategies.
• Represent I@S priority areas within agile teams and thought leadership working groups.
• Shape project ideas, proactive messaging and materials, and funding need pitches.
• Demonstrate a strong command of current global thought leadership and advancements in applicable subject matter.

Business Development (30%)

• Provide high-level advisory input to GPLs, and fundraising teams across priority areas.
• Maintain portfolio of support for key priority areas, including "ready for scale" priorities.
• Develop multifaceted and compelling materials for specific audiences.
• Support the creation of stewardship plans for restricted and loosely restricted donors.
• Lead and/or support proposal development processes as needed.
• Complement and amplify the capacity of the ERD and fundraising teams to engage with and secure private donations.
• Maintain knowledge of IRC ERD technical approaches, operating contexts, and sectoral trends.

Internal coordination & process improvements (20%)

• Develop and operationalize standard ways of working and process workflows for cross-functional projects.
• Ensure an outstanding level of support to our internal partners.
• Work with Technical Units and High Value counterparts to create information sharing systems.

Portfolio management support (20%)

• Engage across the duration of a grant to ensure donor requirements are met and deepen donor dedication.
• Provide post-award project management support on large strategic grants as requested.

Essential Qualifications

• 6-7 years of related work experience, preferably with a large International Non-Governmental Organization in programs, fundraising and/or advocacy.
• Outstanding communication, relationship management, writing, and presentation skills.
• Experience with global ERD programming in low-resource settings.
• Experience working with fundraising and grants management processes.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate around ERD programming and strategy.
• Experience fundraising for ERD or related programming; ability to quickly get up to speed on technical content and strategy.
• Excellent track record of delivering on sophisticated proposals and projects.
• Bachelor's degree in international development, social work, or other relevant area, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience across strategic partnership development, program design and development, fundraising and communications channels.
• Experience developing and implementing multi-million-dollar partnerships.

Desired Qualifications

• Knowledge of other IRC languages (Spanish, French, Arabic) would be an asset.
• Experience across strategic partnership development, programs, and fundraising.
• International experience across diverse contexts; working with global, cross-cultural teams.
• Master's degree in related field or equivalent experience a bonus.

Working Environment

• This role may require working remotely, and occasional travel.
• If remote, applicants must have a home or alternate workspace they can effectively complete their work from during regularly scheduled hours.