Associate Director, Advocacy Impact

The Associate Director, Advocacy Impact leads the development of integrated advocacy strategies to advance IRC's highest-priority objectives and ensure measurable, at-scale impact for people affected by crisis. This strategic role involves driving advocacy impact at scale, maximizing global advocacy moments, expanding advocacy engagement models, and leading creative campaigns to achieve IRC's advocacy objectives.

Responsibilities

• Champion IRC’s priority of achieving advocacy impact at scale by ensuring Policy and Advocacy strategies are designed, resourced, and sequenced to deliver influence commensurate with the scale of crises IRC responds to
• Work with team leads to define what impact at scale means for their portfolios, and build the frameworks needed to advocate to key stakeholders, track success, and report on it
• Lead cross-team planning and coordination to maximize IRC’s influence around high-profile global moments, such as the UN General Assembly, ensuring the organization speaks with one voice, sequences asks and products effectively, and converts moment-specific attention into durable advocacy gains
• Identify moments within multilateral processes (board meetings, replenishments, high-level assemblies, negotiations) where targeted advocacy can shift outcomes
• Identify, pilot, and scale new approaches to advocacy engagement, including virtual visits to IRC country programs that bring external decision-makers and influencers closer to IRC’s field operations
• Coordinate advocacy in geographies where IRC does not currently have a dedicated advocate on the ground, ensuring these locations remain connected to and represented within IRC’s global advocacy strategy
• Support market directors in power-mapping key stakeholders, identifying creative advocacy strategies, and developing breakthrough ideas that bring IRC's policy products to life

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, Political Science or other related field
• Minimum 7-8 years work experience preferred
• Advocacy experience working with an international organization, NGO or Government
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, including juggling competing priorities and tight deadlines and prioritizing tasks appropriately
• Experience designing and implementing strategic planning processes
• Positive, resourceful and flexible attitude with ability to problem solve, work productively both in a team environment or independently as needed, and take initiative in a fast-faced environment
• Advocacy experience, crafting advocacy campaigns, briefs, is a plus
• Strong project management skills, ideally within a cross-organizational team to deliver on projects/strategies
• Strong writing skills, ability to translate policy solutions into actionable advocacy points
• Solid English language writing and editing skills with a focus on details
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to develop and manage complex relationships
• Ability to engage with senior policy makers
• Familiarity with or proven interest in humanitarian aid sector, foreign policy, and/or refugee issues
• Fluency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and ability to learn online web-based applications
• Commitment to advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion at the IRC and in the humanitarian field

Skills

• Advocacy Design
• Strategic Planning
• Project Management
• Policy Writing
• Advocacy Brief Writing
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Senior Policy Maker Engagement
• Organizational Skills
• Time Management
• Cross-Organizational Collaboration
• Humanitarian Assistance Knowledge
• Foreign Policy Knowledge
• Refugee Protection Knowledge
• Microsoft Outlook
• MS Word
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint
• Online Application Proficiency
• Equity Diversity Inclusion Commitment

Languages

English