Requisition ID: req58866 Job Title: Senior Director, Global Policy Solutions Sector: Senior Executive Leadership Employment Category: Regular Employment Type: Full-Time Compensation: GBP 87,449.60 - 93,696.00 Annually Open to Expatriates: No Location: London, UK Work Arrangement:Hybrid Job Description Background: The External Relations (ER) Department mobilizes external audiences to raise the requisite funds, influence policies and achieve practice changes to improve outcomes for our clients, while growing and protecting our global brand. The Global Policy & Advocacy team is a dynamic part of the ER Department that leverages the power of IRC’s ideas to solve the biggest challenges facing IRC’s clients across the “arc of crisis” and influence external stakeholders, in particular governments and multi-lateral institutions, to enact these solutions to ultimately make meaningful change for our clients. From combating the drivers of conflict to meeting the needs of displaced people, the team partners with innovative thinkers, experts and those with lived experience to identify solutions and bring them to life. We take pride in being solutions-oriented and creative. We are precise in our goals, tactics, and messages. We drive change year over year, knowing that system change takes dedicated focus while maintaining the flexibility to respond to emerging needs across the globe. Finally, we are collaborative, constantly seeking new ideas and perspectives from others in our sector and beyond as we work side by side with programs, strategy, communications and research and innovation teams across the IRC. Job Overview: The International Rescue Committee’s approach to policy and advocacy places great focus on robust policy and solution development. This role will be responsible for developing scalable, high-impact and pragmatic solutions. You seek to make the most of IRC’s knowledge across teams and, where relevant, look for new and creative partnerships outside the organization to deepen IRC’s diagnosis of policy issues and development of surgical, specific solutions. In particular, you work closely with our program colleagues to bridge into a vast network of subject matter experts and effectively prioritize. . Your team is bold, quick moving, open to new ideas, and collaborative, working in lockstep with IRC’s broader External Relations Department to deliver on shared policy, profile and funding objectives and in particular, partnering closely with our Communications colleagues and President’s Office Major Responsibilities: Strategic Leadership + Lead the Global Policy and Solutions team. Inspire and model collaboration and problem-solving between IRC’s Global Policy and Solutions team and teams from across IRC to use the power of our ideas to create bold policy solutions. + Support the VP, Policy & Advocacy in working with IRC’s Leadership Board and cross-functional counterparts to set IRC’s Policy Agenda. Equally, enable IRC’s emergency response by assessing opportunities to proactively shift agenda to unlock urgent policy changes, while maintaining sustained focus on long-term policy shifts that can bring the largest impact to our clients. (NB: Interim position will lead this work) + Together with External Relations Department Leaders, partner with IRC CEO, Leadership Board, Board of Director and Advisors, and Program Leaders (e.g., Executive Directors, Country Directors) to develop influence strategies that advance IRC’s profile, funding and fundraising goals. + Steward Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion both in the culture of IRC, as well as in the policy solutions we develop and ways we wield influence. Policy and Solutions + Create open and adaptive ways of working with IRC teams (especially programs, technical and research teams) to continually assess the biggest challenges facing IRC's clients, IRC’s most effective solutions, and corresponding barriers to scale. Be the foremost expert on assessing relevance of policy solutions to unlocking these barriers. + Apply deep knowledge of political and power systems to co-develop surgical, specific and creative solutions in IRC’s priority policy areas. Develop partnerships and relationships that advance and refine solutions and influence opportunities. + Lead cross-functional development of IRC’s signature annual policy products. Oversee analysis of quantitative and qualitative data to build a rigorous annual analysis of accelerators and decelerators of conflict and resettlement. Identify corresponding solutions to unlock impact at scale. Partner with Advocacy and Marketing & Mobilization leaders to translate analysis into best-in-class report to guide both policy makers and IRC’s internal priorities. + Brief IRC staff and leaders, including the CEO and leadership board on key policy areas, while building a culture of lifting other policy voices as appropriate and relevant. + Support and partner with the VP, Policy & Advocacy and Advocacy leadership team in developing influence strategies that translate policy goals to achievable advocacy strategies. Serve as IRC spokesperson with media and at other external engagements Key Working Relationships: Position reports to: Vice President, Policy & Advocacy (NB: Interim position will report to COO) Position directly supervises: Manages policy team & MIP reports Strategy/Delivery and Project Manager Internal contacts: Technical Excellence leads; International Programs leads; Communications; Awards Management; President’s Office External contacts: Key experts in academic, research/think-tanks, multi-laterals, governments, INGOs and beyond JOB REQUIREMENTS: Education: + Graduate degree in Public Policy, Law, International Relations or related field Work experience, skills and competencies: + Significant experience working on sophisticated humanitarian and/or development issues, preferably in the area of conflict, forced displacement and humanitarian financing. + Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams and integrating perspectives from diverse team members to ideate and problem solve + Demonstrated experience in policy analysis and policy strategy and development and familiarity with institutions that can be targeted to achieve policy change objectives + Outstanding interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills with a demonstrated capacity to translate complex material and data into coherent narratives that resonate with diverse groups of policymakers, business leaders and influencers. + Fluency with key parts of the IRC’s strategy and existing policy strategy + Demonstrated dedication to diversity, equity and inclusion and a strong passion for our mission! Working Environment: + Standard office work environment. Up to 15% travel required Compensation:Posted pay ranges apply to UK-based candidates. Ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, internal equity, and budget. Exact offers are calibrated by work location, individual candidate experience and skills relative to the defined job requirements. Equal Opportunity Employer:IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. #LI-1