Senior Advisor, German Development & Global Donor Engagement (f/m/d)

at  International Rescue Committee

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world’s largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you’re a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.
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IRC Germany was founded and is involved in the areas of education, economic wellbeing, and safety, legal protection, and empowerment throughout Germany.
AMU has responsibility for identifying, securing and managing all funding from government donors for the IRC. AMU is a bridge between donors and the IRC’s work on the ground. The team provides expert technical advice to colleagues delivering our services around the world, ensures consistency and compliance with our donors’ policies and procedures, and manages risk. The unit also supports all IRC staff working on awards from government donors and partnerships.
The Senior Advisor will work closely with the Director of European Donor Engagement, with Executive Leadership in IRC Germany and across IRC. The role will have primary responsibility for German Development donor engagement and growth. This will include serving as a donor focal point to ensure the coordination of relevant materials, information and knowledge management is shared across IRC’s BD and awards teams.
The Senior Advisor will support the development and implementation of strategies for proactive donor and partner relationships with German Development donors. The role will work closely with technical and proposal development teams who will provide the operational BD capacity to secure significant growth in its funding portfolio, and it will liaise closely with the GFFO donor advisor, relevant senior staff in IRC program regional BD and program and award teams and with IRC Germany.

• Reporting to the Director of European Donor Engagement, the role will coordinate, develop, track and deliver comprehensive business development strategic plans for relevant German development donors, with emphasis on BMZ and KfW (secondary priority GIZ). These will be based on sound research, data generation and analysis for priority donors in the engagement portfolio.
• Working with compliance, regional and technical staff the role will review, look at due diligence and management of new German Development Donors (or as required) other global donors assessment processes as identified.
• Manage the development of plans for German Development donor engagement across the organization.
• Through the use of IRC’s preferred CRM, Salesforce, plan, track and maintain a register of German development donor engagement at country, regional and global levels; triangulate information at different levels and ensure staff are well briefed and consistent in their donor engagement and influence.
• Serve as the primary German Development Donor focal point for business development and awards support teams. Working with BD teams ensure bid specific German Development donor engagement at the global level is well managed and supported.
• Support the development of materials to ensure those engaging with German development donors are well equipped to deliver concrete outcomes.
• Proactively identify and broker relationships with key officials and stakeholders.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of German development donor strategies relevant to IRC’s work, such as funding priorities, geographical interests and political climate, providing analyses and synopses of press releases, policies and other announcements, and disseminating this information internally.
• Support the Director, European Donor Engagement to develop and improve German Development donor tracking tools and resources to support engagement and relationship building.
• Coordinate all globally and technically flexible BD opportunities to identify strategic, donor responsive bid decisions.
• Conduct and manage internal competition process to select which concept IRC will put forward to a donor in the event the IRC faces a limit on the number of applications.
• Develops and facilitates a pipeline and presentations where necessary on the status global opportunities.
• Working with Director, European Donor Engagement provide effective support to new or emerging donors, including as required, due diligence assessment, information gathering and analysis, donor engagement strategy and direct oversight of donor engagement plans.