Associate Director, Donor Propositions

The External Relations (ER) department was created in early 2020 and is comprised of 3 main but complementary functional areas: Private fundraising, Communications and Advocacy. The department is in the beginning stages of building a new ambitious strategy that will improve IRC’s ability to ‘punch above its weight’ in private income, advocacy, and brand awareness.

Supporting this endeavor, and an integral part of ER, is the Global Partnerships and Philanthropic Services (GPPS) Unit. Reporting into the VP Global Partnerships and Philanthropy, GPPS consists of functional specialists across a variety of high-value fundraising functions providing all elements of cultivation, support and stewardship to high value donors, partners, and supporters, comprising three pillars: Research, Partner Engagement & Corporate Affairs, and Program Services. Program Services is anticipated to become GPPS’ largest sub-pillar and is vested at the nexus of HV fundraising and our operations and programs in the field. This pillar comprises of proposal, proposition and reporting development services, field experiences, and program services and field capacity.

The IRC has a new exciting opportunity within the Program Services team, where you would be part of a team critical to the advancement of our aspirational high-value (HV) goals and vision. As part of this team, you will develop funding and support propositions and impact reports to strengthen the HV teams and to maximize IRC's global fundraising and partnerships efforts. By becoming immersed in IRC's programs, team members can translate that content into compelling donor-friendly language, and individual and blended proposals for financial and non-financial support for IRC’s work.

Job Overview:

The Associate Director, Donor Propositions will head up and craft the vision of this newly established team. They will be responsible for managing the portfolio of donor communication cases and streamlining the outputs created by a team of content specialists. This role will be vital in creating a 360-degree approach to donor propositions, impact reports and stewardship management.

Major Responsibilities:

•Provide mentorship and support to a growing writer’s team (currently 3) under direct supervision

•Advise and lead on written communications to HV donors and prospects, Board and Overseers, and other internal IRC leadership

•Devise new strategies for packaging work to meet evolving donors, supporters and social investors’ needs and providing the right support to fundraisers to pursue all types of donor, supporter or social investors

•Develop a library of standardized language, templates, proposals and reporting metrics to work across global audiences

•Ensure consistency and standardization of services across high value teams

•Manage a portfolio of donor communication cases, ensure workload is shared evenly across team members, and proactively improve the new team’s processes and ways of working

•Build a comprehensive and results-oriented method to donor proposals, impact reports, and stewardship management

•Establish the new team’s directive and evolve and promote the new service offer across the IRC; to include new business, multi-year partnerships and big bets

•Work with IRC’s senior leadership, program staff, and relevant colleagues across External Relations to create compelling cases for philanthropic investment, non-financial and advocacy support, and engagement opportunities for donors at the highest levels

•Work collaboratively with peers and colleagues across programs to stay up to date on IRC programs, global events, and trends impacting the humanitarian sector and the lives of our beneficiaries

•Cultivate and deepen positive relationships with colleagues in program offices to ensure smooth and transparent communication

•Acts as a thought partner, working collaboratively with HV fundraisers to develop short and long term communication plans for global partners across all HV portfolios