Senior Director, Global Policy and Solutions

**Background**: 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 Solutions 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:** The International Rescue Committee’s approach to policy and advocacy places great focus on robust policy and solution development and strategic engagement with global policy makers. This role will be responsible for leading a team that will be developing scalable, high-impact and pragmatic solutions. You seek to make the most of IRC’s knowledge across teams and, where relevant, look for new and creative partnerships outside the organization to deepen IRC’s diagnosis of policy issues and development of surgical, specific solutions. In particular, you work closely with our program colleagues to bridge into a vast network of subject matter experts and effectively prioritize.

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