Senior Director, Violence Prevention and Response at International Rescue Committee

Requisition ID: req24375

Professional Profile

Success in this position requires an individual with outstanding leadership abilities, and deep expertise in designing and delivering protection programming across the sectors programs.

Work Experience:

• A minimum of 15 years of relevant experience, with on the ground programmatic experience in a service delivery organization, NGO or comparable international agency required.
• Experience and familiarity with protection donors, peer agencies and national contexts required, preferably in humanitarian and transitional, post-crisis contexts.
• Experience and expertise raising funds from bilateral, multilateral, and private donors.
• Leadership and management experience in complex global organizations.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

• Very strong leadership and management proficiencies including the ability to build a diverse team, foster an inclusive team culture, encourage confidence and trust and lead team in a unified vision and strategy.
• Capacity to communicate effectively with IRC program leadership, technical peers, and colleagues in fundraising, communications, and advocacy.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate a large multi-national organization.
• Deep expertise in protection programming and hands-on experience (preferably in 2 or more of the sub-sectors) in low resource/conflict affected environments.
• Highly effective strategic planning and execution and ability to make difficult decisions.
• Private and statutory business development/ fundraising.
• Understanding of the program life cycle and effective practices used by aid organizations to design, implement and measure the progress of interventions.
• Fluency in the relevance and use of empirical evidence to know what works best to achieve meaningful violence prevention and response outcomes.
• Excellent public speaking and writing skills are essential.
• An established and collaborative professional network in humanitarian, development, and protection technical and policy communities.

Education: Master’s in relevant field required. Sound knowledge of research and research management an advantage.

Language Skills: Excellent spoken and written English essential. Proficiency in additional IRC relevant languages (Arabic, French, Spanish, Kiswahili, etc.) strongly preferred.

Working Environment: Travel up to 25% of time. Preferably based in NYC or one of our international hubs in London, Geneva, and Nairobi. Other IRC locations may be possible.