Senior Director, New Funding and Innovation

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  • New York, NY
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International Rescue Committee

Requisition ID: req24233

Job Title: Senior Director, New Funding and Innovation

Sector: Fundraising

Employment Category: Regular

Employment Type: Full-Time

Open to Expatriates: Yes

Location: New York, NY HQ USA OR REMOTE US/UK/CH

Job Description

Job Overview and Background:

The International Rescue Committee is seeking a forward-looking and strategic leader to generate and build innovative funding and partnership opportunities that help refugees survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to craft and lead the organization’s ambitious goals and vision for high-value philanthropy, which today makes up more than two-thirds of our private-sector revenue.

Since its inception in 1933, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. This role is part of the International Philanthropy and Partnerships (IPP) team, which leads on the IRC’s engagement with corporations, foundations, international philanthropists, and new global funding streams.

The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial thinker and sophisticated relationship manager with a global network of private-sector stakeholders and personal experience in mobilizing that network for the purpose of generating innovative funding solutions for humanitarian causes. They will have experience creatively identifying, incubating, and pursuing partnership opportunities internationally, with corporations, foundations, and individual philanthropists. The Senior Director will lead and mentor a team of senior specialists who are also pioneering these new types of funding relationships for the IRC.

Major Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor the New Funding and Innovation team, who are building IRC’s capacity to raise funds in non-traditional fields like Donor Advised Funds, cryptocurrency, faith-based giving, etc;
  • Set the vision and plan for IRC’s engagement with non-traditional income-streams and actors; inform the organization’s strategy in these key areas of innovative funding.
  • Establish collaborative working relationships both internally across the organization and externally with donors and key partners;
  • Develop and implement a global strategy for recruiting key business contacts across industries, sectors and markets;
  • Develop and lead engagement plans to reach senior decision makers with a range of prospects;
  • Build global partnerships, including leading the contracting process;
  • Personally manage a core group of global corporations, foundations, or high net worth individual prospects by identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and providing guidance as appropriate to each donor prospect.

Key Working Relationships:

You will report to: Vice President, IPP and Global Partnerships and Philanthropy;

Your position directly supervises: Five dedicated subject matter experts.

Essential Qualifications

  • Advanced University degree in Business Administration, Economics, Communications, International Relations, Finance or other field relevant to the IRC;
  • Approximately 10+ years of experience in forging strategic relationships with the private-sector, preferably in support of social impact outcomes;
  • Experience with private-sector partnership-building and revenue-generation techniques, including acquiring financial support for projects and developing large-scale partnerships;
  • Successful record of managing and leading teams, inspiring change and maintaining a solution-oriented mindset;
  • Understanding how to reconcile the needs of the organization with private sector and non-traditional partners;
  • Existing professional and personal networks with the high-value private sector, ideally in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and other notable wealth and private-sector hubs around the world;
  • Ability to explain sophisticated issues to donor prospects and present the organization in an engaging and concise manner;
  • Good understanding of the challenges and issues faced by field offices;
  • Excellent digital literacy (MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint, etc.);
  • Excellent communication skills with good interpersonal and negotiation skills;
  • Knowledge and curiosity about humanitarian/international development work.

Desired/ Good to have:

  • Understanding or experience in venture philanthropy space (or innovative finance community);
  • Multiple languages a plus.

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.

Standards of Professional Conduct: The IRC and IRC workers adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and Anti-Retaliation.

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