Senior Officer, Technical Partnerships, VPRU+ at International Rescue Committee

The major responsibilities will include:

• 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.
• Ensure an outstanding level of support to our internal partners, including coordinating and leading effective cross-functional meetings, and ensuring decisions and follow up actions are taken in a timely manner.
• Work with TU and HV counterparts to create information sharing systems.
• Portfolio management support (20%)
• For strategic partnerships, engage across the duration of a grant, in close coordination with the fundraising teams, Regional Support Managers (RSMs) and TU, to ensure donor requirements are met, compliance issues are raised as needed, and to design a creative, long-term engagement strategy to deepen donor dedication.
• As appropriate, provide post-award project management support on large strategic grants as requested from fundraising teams and VPRU.

Essential Qualifications:

• 6-7years 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 protection programming in low-resource settings
• Experience working with fundraising and grants management processes
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and communicate around protection programming and strategy across both technical and lay audiences
• Experience fundraising for protection or related programming; ability to quickly get up to speed on technical content and strategy