Job Openings at International Rescue Committee

Major Responsibilities: 

• Conduct cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness analyses across a complex and developed portfolio of work.
• Lead scenario modelling analyses of the cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness of products and services across contexts and scales. Understand the decision-making needs of counterparts and develop modelling plans that best address these questions given data constraints. 
• Effectively communicate scenario modeling and analysis results and implications with program counterparts, to inform programmatic decision making, new product development, and scaling, including showing the impact of different program designs on cost-efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
• Track and manage all projects within a given portfolio, including budgeting and planning, to ensure projects stay on-track, follow project guidance, and provide timely results.
• Provide peer reviews on BUR team analyses and reports.
• Provide on-demand advising, data, and strategic input to teams (including Business Development, Grants Support, Finance, and Policy & Advocacy) on cost topics such as “value for money,” outcome-based budgeting, and resourcing planning.
• Work collaboratively with country-based staff and technical teams, proactively identifying and solving risks to analysis quality as they arise.
• Build and develop program-specific databases of cost data. Relate cost results with evidence on the effectiveness of programs generated by the Airbel research team and external literature. 
• Complete evidence synthesis to inform organizational learning around the cost of programs, collaborating across teams to ensure that learnings are shared and integrated.
• Support the development of evidence recommendations and evidence sharing, including peer reviews, and development of programmatic guidance.
• Support strategic projects to apply lessons from cost analysis to scaling and replicating effective interventions. 
• Scope new research projects, suggest appropriate analyses to answer research needs, and create work plans.
• Provide research design and pre-award support to the development of proposals, working with finance and program teams to integrate cost data and review proposal budgets for alignment with workplans and targets.
• Lead on project reporting, including writing reports, delivering presentations, supporting communications staff, and contributing to broader BUR/IRC reports.
• Work under supervision to build advocacy and develop external partnerships, including the development of collateral and relationship building.
• Support overall research design, operations, and strategy across a given focus area, completing other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements:  

• Work Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in economics, public policy, a related field, or one or more of the positions’ focus areas, or equivalent professional experience;
• 3-5 years of similar work experience; minimum 1 year in LMICs strongly preferred.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies

• Strong knowledge of evaluation methods, applications, and cost-evidence literature in LMICs;
• Demonstrated proficiency in spreadsheet-based data cleaning and analysis;
• Experience managing five or more projects, including proficiency in project management;
• Implementation and/or monitoring and evaluation experience in safety, economic wellbeing, nutrition, primary health, or similar area;
• Strong writing skills including demonstrated ability to write for non-technical audiences with a focus on advocacy;
• Excellent speaking and presentation skills;
• Ability to work as part of a remote team across time zones, cultures, and contexts;
• Excellence communication skills, cultural sensitivity, flexibility, ability to improvise, team player;
• Commitment to IRC’s core values.

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Major Responsibilities

• Strategy and Capture
• Develop and drive a global donor funding strategy for Airbel in collaboration with Airbel & Global leadership.
• Serve as the main BD focal point for Airbel, coordinate knowledge sharing with fundraising departments, and provide accurate guidance to Airbel Senior Leaders for bid development.
• Develop and oversee pipeline of upcoming funding and partnership opportunities.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to plan for staff needs and business development capacity requirements to successfully write and budget for winning proposals.
• Adapt, strengthen, and roll out new and existing fundraising tools and processes.
• Coordinate internal competition processes.
• Business Development and Program Design
• Lead proposal writing for Airbel-led proposals, ensuring overall quality, coherence and logic in project design, integration with other sectors as needed, meaningful engagement of partners, and adherence to IRC’s IMPACT quality standards and scale considerations.
• Review budgets to ensure consistency with the proposal design.
• Ensure Project Design Meetings take place on time and are of sufficient quality.
• Advance key decisions to senior leaders as relevant.
• Partnerships Strategy
• Support defining and leading Airbel’s approach to partnerships including both global and local partnerships, ensuring successful pre- and post-award partnership operations.  
• Lead coordination to drive all aspects of partnership strategy and management for Airbel, with a strong focus on building effective partnerships with local civil society and other local actor organizations.
• Develop and evolve tools, processes and ways-of-working to be fit-for-purpose for Airbel-led projects and strategic priorities.
• Identify and evaluate opportunities for private sector partnerships required to effectively deliver the Airbel strategy both as part of but also outside specific BD opportunities.
• Identify and evaluate opportunities for partnerships with academic or research centers with a goal of identifying more research partnership opportunities from the global South.

Experience and Skills

• Required Experience:
• Demonstrable experience leading proposal development for multi-million-dollar humanitarian and/or development projects
• Demonstrated success managing complex portfolios and winning large awards
• Experience with major public and private donors (USAID, BHA, FCDO, ECHO, etc.) 
• Track record of developing and implementing systems/processes across varied functional and technical program areas
• Experience building and negotiating partnerships, with understanding of localization and power-shifting trends

Required Skills:

• Strategic analysis and problem-solving using diverse data sources
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with remote, multicultural teams
• Stakeholder management and influence across organizational levels
• Strong project management and ability to balance competing priorities
• Fluency in English (French a plus)