Associate Director, Advocacy Impact

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) helps people affected by humanitarian crises to survive, recover and rebuild their lives. We deliver lasting impact by providing health care, helping children learn, and empowering individuals and communities to become self-reliant, always with a focus on the unique needs of women and girls. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, we now work in over 40 crisis-affected countries as well as communities throughout the U.S., Europe and Latin America. The Global Policy and Advocacy team is a dynamic part of the External Relations Department that leverages the power of IRC’s ideas to solve the biggest challenges facing IRC’s clients across the “arc of crisis.” The Policy and Advocacy team are leaders in understanding crisis, seeking to mitigate it and connecting our analysis to actionable recommendations. We work to make impacts at scale and drive policy solutions forward from the ground up and top down. We remain focused on delivering funding for fragile states and communities and creating the conditions on the ground to support the uptake of our solutions. We are connectors, entrepreneurs, and experts in solutions. We translate IRC research and program evidence into actionable, policy-relevant recommendations. Job Overview/Summary: Under Strategy 100, the IRC has committed to reaching 40 million clients annually by 2033. Advocacy is how the IRC turns frontline experience into the public pressure, political will, and resources needed to close that gap, and this role will be at the center of making that advocacy sharper, more creative, and more effective. The Associate Director, Advocacy Impact will define targeted advocacy strategies that advance IRC's highest-priority objectives, and will ensure those strategies translate into measurable, at-scale impact for people affected by crisis. This role will lead the development of integrated advocacy strategies that connect country program crisis priorities with Refugee, Asylum, and Integration (RAI) priorities, identifying where the two portfolios can reinforce one another and amplify a single, cohesive IRC voice, including at high-profile global advocacy moments. This is a role for someone energized by breakthrough thinking: pushing IRC's advocacy beyond the expected, through bold campaigns, high-impact visits, and sharp written products that command attention. The Ass...