Communications Officer
The International Rescue Committee is a global humanitarian aid, relief and development nongovernmental organization.
Job Overview/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.
