Associate Director, Impact Partnerships

3 months ago


London, United Kingdom International Rescue Committee Full time

**Requisition ID**: req44994

**Job Title**: Associate Director, Impact Partnerships

**Sector**: Fundraising

**Employment Category**: Regular

**Employment Type**: Full-Time

**Gross Compensation**:New York, NY HQ USA: USD 105,000.00 - 123,000.00 Annually

London, UK: GBP 60,760.00 - 70,770.00 Annually

**Work Arrangement**: Open to Remote

**Job Background/Overview**

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is looking for a front-line partnerships lead to capitalize on its winning record of large-scale, big-bet philanthropy and impact partnerships in support of our mission to help refugees survive, recover and gain control of their future.

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) unit, which leads on the IRC's engagement with corporations, foundations, international philanthropists, and new global funding streams.

This position will successfully steward and manage select big-bet opportunities within the IPP team and contribute cross functional expertise on influential foundation partnerships.

This position provides dedicated strategic oversight to prime private-sector foundation partnerships, working closely with donors to build proactive, durable and impactful long-term partnership strategies. Simultaneously, this position ensures success of internal cross-team management of concurrent large-scale grants, leading collaborative engagement with a diverse spectrum of non-U.S.based colleagues and leaders.

The Associate Director, Foundations - Impact Partnerships serves a meaningful role in leading and modeling development of impact partnerships, supporting IRC’s global new business strategy as well as supporting the formalization of processes and procedures. They will understand the needs and performance of donors and prospects, communicate and collaborate superbly with colleagues, business partners and supporters, think strategically, make recommendations, offer creative solutions and manage systems to continually grow and improve the IRC’s donor relationships and influencing the organization’s strategy for engagement in new and existing markets.

This role will manage one Officer, guiding them to support the advancement of select large-scale partnerships while encouraging a productive learning environment.

**Major Responsibilities**:

- Provide practical support and thought leadership in identifying, carrying out and supervising strategies for private sector partnerships that contribute to IPP’s revenue target;
- Lead existing partnerships, including direct strategic, long-term planning with the donor, as well as collaboration with internal partners for effective grants management;
- Design and implement creative and comprehensive outreach, solicitation and management strategies for partners within the portfolio, leading on partnership discussions, proposal submissions, and pitches;
- Engage with project and organizational leadership to ensure shared vision and strategy for partnership management;
- Monitor and analyze foundation partnership trends as they relate to Impact Partnership and big-bet opportunities, ensuring that the IRC’s partnership proposition remains compelling and competitive;
- Ensure open and relevant communication is maintained between the IRC and our private sector partners while serving as a respected authority internally and externally on the management and strategic development of select partnership engagement strategies;
- Represent IPP effectively in related fora;
- Line manage one Officer, including performance monitoring and mentoring, performance appraisals and professional development plan oversight
- In partnership with the Director, Foundations - Impact Partnerships, contribute to a growing knowledge base of resources, processes, lessons learned and workflow for the organization to respond to big-bet opportunities;
- Synthesize the IRC’s programs into clear, compelling presentations, proposals, and reports for private sector audiences which position IRC as the go-to partner in the humanitarian sector; and
- Maintain clear CRM records for the portfolio that contribute to comprehensive tracking/reporting on IPP’s client universe.

**Key Working Relationships**:
**Position Reports to**: Director, Foundations - Impact Partnerships

**Position supervises**: Officer, Foundations - Impact Partnerships

**Essential Qualifications**:
**Work Experience**:Minimum7-8 years of non-profit fundraising experience and demonstrated experience in large-scale complex leadership gifts, big-bet fundraising.

**Demonstrated Skills and Competencies**:

- Excellent oral and written communication skills including: speaking to and writing for donors; crafting compelling partnership proposals and pitch materials;
- Proven knowledge of foundation/private sector philanthropy planning processes, and the particular i



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