Senior Officer, Technical Partnerships, VPRU

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is seeking a dynamic Senior Officer, Technical Partnerships to lead on bringing together internal IRC teams to ensure the continued growth and development of strategic new business opportunities and meet our private fundraising ambitions. The Senior Officer is expected to oversee a portfolio including several key funding priorities, with some potential evolution of portfolio makeup as needed. This individual will play a central role driving IRC's ambitious Impact @ Scale plans and will serve on the agile team models that will support this initiative. The Senior Officer will be an integral part of a matrix management structure to bring private fundraising, technical units, and Impact @ Scale priorities together.

This role is part of the Program Services team, which aims to provide the High Value Fundraising teams (Philanthropy, Trusts & Foundations, and Corporates) with best-in-class support in a single, unified service model. The role is managed in partnership between Program Services and the IRC's Violence Prevention and Response (VPRU) Technical Unit (TU).

The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial professional who has demonstrated experience with global Protection programming, as well as experience across strategic partnership development, programming, fundraising and communications channels while working with global, cross-cultural teams.

Major Responsibilities

The role will galvanize and work alongside IRC's high-value fundraisers, Global Practice Leads, in-country and technical experts, and support teams to significantly raise the profile of, and increase revenue for Protection programming and key priority areas at the IRC.

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

• Work closely with the Associate Director, VPRU, and I@S Leadership to develop and implement BD strategy (I@S priorities and Outcome Strategies), including overseeing the development of strategic positioning materials and donor engagement plans to enhance IRC's competitiveness in priority areas.
• Represent Impact @ Scale priority areas within agile teams and thought leadership working groups. Influence resource-mobilization strategies for I@S, help shape donor pathways geared toward scale, and support alignment across technical and fundraising teams for I@S pipelines.
• Work with GPLs, Regional Leads and fundraisers to shape project ideas, proactive messaging and materials, and funding need pitches to be poised for donor 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.
• Work alongside technical leads and the wider Marketing & Mobilization team to develop multifaceted and compelling materials that strike the balance between technical depth and clarity of vision for specific audiences, including strategic partnership development, 'big bets', and new prospects.
• In collaboration with other Program Services team members, support the creation of stewardship plans for restricted and loosely restricted donors in collaboration with account managers, donor engagement, and Impact @ Scale campaign teams.
• Lead and/or support proposal development processes as needed for Protection and other priority areas, bringing together teams across the organization including senior leadership. As needed, participate in donor meetings providing technical expertise and strategy support, and/or connect relevant colleagues from across the TU to inform donor conversations, proposal design, and business development.
• Complement and amplify the capacity of the VPRU and fundraising teams to engage with and secure private donations by providing technical expertise, strategy support, and project alignment with donor interests. This includes communications, knowledge management, proposal development, and portfolio management.
• Maintain knowledge of IRC protection technical approaches, operating contexts, and sectoral trends to inform business development efforts.

Internal coordination & process improvements (20%)

• Help develop and operationalize standard ways of working and process workflows for cross-functional projects, including Impact @ Scale, between High Value, Marketing & Mobilization, VPRU, and other teams to grow overall funding, advance our private-sector partnerships pursuits, prioritize funding needs, increase efficiency, and ensure appropriate partner sign off.