Senior Manager, Strategy

The Senior Manager, Strategy leads complex, cross-functional projects and supports senior leaders in decision-making within the IRC's Strategy & Delivery Unit. This role involves delivering critical strategic priorities, managing project teams, and driving organizational performance and impact in a multicultural, dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee large, complex projects, taking ownership for timely, high-quality delivery; scope the work, drive to solutions, and surface and quickly resolve roadblocks as they arise
• Generate actionable insights and evidence-based user-centric solutions, informed by best practices, analysis and extensive consultation with IRC staff
• Apply structure to ambiguous, complex problems and facilitate structured problem-solving sessions with Strategy Unit members and IRC stakeholders
• Validate findings and recommendations with senior stakeholders, facilitating decision making and consensus building meetings on challenging topics
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders across the organization and advise senior decision-makers as needed
• Lead project teams, comprised of Strategy Unit members and often IRC subject matter experts; assign responsibilities, review work for quality, and sharpen the thinking
• Promote a positive, collaborative, efficient team working environment where team members enjoy working with each other, feel able to do impactful work and grow professionally over time, including through regular developmental feedback

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Approximately 5–7 years of relevant experience, including at least 2 years in a strategy, consulting, or project management role, with a track record of high performance and increasing responsibility
• Experience in executing strategic change and organizational change management
• Experience in managing large-scale, cross-functional projects in a fast-paced environment
• Strong organizational and time-management skills; proven ability to deliver on time and make progress against multiple simultaneous demands
• Strong analytical skills and natural ability to structure and creatively solve complex problems
• Experience working effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as an overall ability to be clear and concise in all communications
• Strong ability to influence and build credibility with senior stakeholders; confident communicating findings and recommendations to executive audiences
• Strong meeting facilitation and presentation skills
• Highly collaborative and able to work independently, in a dynamic, cross-functional global team structure
• Experience managing project teams and coaching more junior team members
• Ability to respond enthusiastically and positively to ambiguity, be resilient to shifting priorities and setbacks, and be comfortable with imperfect analysis and solutions
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite
• Preferred experience in a strategy role at either a strategy consulting firm, or in the strategy development function of a global organization
• Preferred MBA or a Master’s degree in international development, human rights or another field related to the IRC’s work
• Preferred experience in a humanitarian or development organization, or similar
• Preferred knowledge of French, Arabic or Spanish

Skills

• Strategic Change Management
• Organizational Change Management
• Project Management
• Cross-functional Project Delivery
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Senior Management Communication
• Meeting Facilitation
• Presentation Skills
• Team Management
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Analytical Skills
• Problem Solving
• Time Management
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Strategy Development
• Consulting Experience
• Decision-Making Support

Languages

English, French, Arabic, Spanish