Associate Director, Advocacy Impact

Join the International Rescue Committee as an Associate Director for Advocacy Impact, leading innovative strategies to influence policy for crisis-affected communities.

• Drive advocacy impact at scale: 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.
• Maximize global advocacy moments: 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
• Expand and diversify advocacy engagement models: 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, and mechanisms to 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.
• Drive creative campaigns to achieve IRC's advocacy objectives: Support market directors in power-mapping key stakeholders, identifying creative advocacy strategies, and developing breakthrough ideas that bring IRC's policy products to life.

• Education:* Bachelor’s degree in International Relations, Political Science or other related field