Communications Officer, Global Partnerships at International Rescue Committee
1 month ago
The International Rescue Committee is a global humanitarian aid, relief and development nongovernmental organization.
Job Summary
The Global Partnerships communications team is part of the Marketing & Mobilization (M&M) department. The team supports and highlights the IRC’s high value donors and partnerships with the private and philanthropic sectors.
Working in collaboration with teams across the organization, this role leads external-facing communication with philanthropic partners to raise brand recognition, engage donor audiences, spotlight sector-leading solutions and innovations, facilitate fundraising through cause marketing and other campaigns, and meet donor visibility requirements.
This position works directly with the global high value teams to support forward-looking and purposeful communications strategies targeting key audiences and markets. Does this sound like an exciting for fit you?
Major Responsibilities
This communicator will:
Work alongside our corporate and foundation teams to support grant visibility requirements and proactive profile-building opportunities.
In particular, focus on expansion of external visibility opportunities, cause marketing, and activations with consumer-facing partners and notable brands.
Lead external engagement strategy around campaigns and key moments with partners, including digital activations, earned and paid media pitches, flagship events, etc.
Lead thought leadership and executive communications strategy with partners to elevate cross-sector solutions and commitments to the world’s most pressing humanitarian challenges.
Collaborate closely with, seek input from, and manage opportunities with a wide range of internal stakeholders, including the Experiential Marketing, Events, Entertainment Relations, Fundraising, Digital, Brand, Creative, and other teams.
Identify and grow key media targets beyond the policy / humanitarian sectors and help to build our profile with new audiences and international markets.
Ensure that existing partnership materials are kept up to date – such as messaging documents, decks, media lists, etc. and help to the development of messaging, project management systems and processes, strategy planning documents, etc.
Contribute to quarterly reports on coverage, engagement, and performance using industry standard metrics and bench-marking.
Manage additional special projects across the Partnerships communications team based on strategic needs of the team.
Key Working Relationships:
Position Reports to: Associate Director, Global Partnership Communications
Position directly supervises: n/a
**Indirect Reporting:**n/a
**Internal:**Work with global external relations colleagues, writers, content producers, digital team members, IRC advocates and fundraisers.
Job Requirements
Genuine passion about the IRC’s work and leading 360-degree communications activations with philanthropic partners
4+ years in Consumer and/or Brand communications in the private or NGO sectors.
Strong understating of media landscape and comfort with pitching stories and writing statements, quotes, etc.
A generalist who thinks about communications across channels, e.g., video, digital, social, and media and is able to connect the dots
Experience with events and activations to build profile and visibility.
Experience leading complex projects from start to finish.
Experience handling external relationships, such as with customers, clients, media, or donors.
Experience with cause marketing preferred.
Experience working with high value donors preferred, bonus for experience working in the donor landscape in US, EU, and/or MENA.
A planner and executer. Someone who has a consistent record of project management, taking initiative and driving implementation.
Self-starter comfortable working with remote, global teams and in ambiguity.
Education: Bachelor’s degree required.
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