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 Advocacy & Influence Department is a dynamic team that uses the power of IRC’s ideas to solve the biggest challenges facing IRC’s clients. From the drivers of conflict to the needs displaced people, the team partners with politicians, policy makers and civil society to bring these solutions to life. We take pride in being solutions-oriented and creative. We are precise in our tactics, and messages. We lead change year over year, knowing that system change takes dedicated focus while maintaining the flexibility to respond to emerging needs. Finally, we are collaborative, working not only with programs, strategy, research and innovation, and communications teams across the IRC, but also externally, constantly seeking to new ideas and perspectives from others in the humanitarian sector and beyond.

As Germany Advocacy Coordinator, you are responsible for crafting influence strategies to guide IRC’s political advocacy in Germany, using IRC’s programmatic and research evidence, surgical policy and practice solutions, and trusted brand to inspire collective action. Your research and writing skills make you a go-to teammate for understanding current legislative and policy trends in Germany and how our policies support tor clash with political agendas. You contribute your fresh insights and analysis to inform IRC’s influence approaches, tactics, and messages.

Major Responsibilities

- Strategy: Support the development and implementation of advocacy strategies, collaborating with P&S and A&I teams, to advance IRCs key influence priorities and maximize the opportunity for IRC to advance our influence objectives. - Influence Analysis: Support the development of power maps for key advocacy issues to identify influence priorities and opportunities for IRC in Germany. Support development and execution of influence strategies, including with peer organizations and nontraditional partners, encouraging IRC to develop new approaches to advocacy as usual. Track and report on influencing initiatives and their impact and harmonize IRC advocacy outreach using digital stakeholder management tools. - Advocacy: Support efforts to build IRC’s credibility, profile and relationships by developing and disseminating high quality advocacy products, including policy positions, briefings and other support materials for high-level meetings, and other materials for internal and external use as agreed. Support conceptualization and implementation of advocacy initiatives towards politicians and policy makers in the German parliament and ministries (e.g. GFFO, BMZ), with support of the Germany Advocacy Director. Develop and maintain relationships with representatives of humanitarian organisations based in Germany, members of the German parliament and their staff and members of German ministries. - Policy Contextualization: Provide research and insights into the German context and implications for communicating and disseminating our global policies and solutions. Adapt global messaging for more effective advocacy in the German context. - Communications: Draft and/or edit communication messages to be used for advocacy, influence and profile in collaboration with the Germany Comms Team. Support execution of strategic activities including events. - Legislative and Policy Tracking. Monitor and analyse government positions and political/legislative processes on priority issues, reporting relevant trends and developments to A&I and P&S colleagues. Identify opportunities for influence and sharing of IRC policy asks. - Research: Support team-wide advocacy research needs, developing workplans and prioritizing projects effectively. - Steward Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion both in the culture of IRC, as well as in the policy solutions we develop and ways that we wield influence. - Spokesperson: Support IRC spokespeople on focused advocacy areas. Represent IRC in various meetings, round tables, workshops, and conferences. Support communications with legislative and governmental staffers on issues as appropriate. - Teamwork: Support a positive team culture by acting openly and collaboratively, supporting colleagues in their work and sharing credit with others where appropriate.

Your Profile

- Degree in relevant field such as Public Policy, Law or International Relations - 3-6 years of experience working on complex humanitarian and/or development issues - Demonstrated experience in policy and advocacy research - Understanding of relevant political dynamics in Germany, and familiar with leverage points within these institutions that can be targeted to achieve policy change objectives - A solutions-oriented mindset and ability to think creatively - Knowledge of humanitarian aid and refugee issues - Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate successfully both internally and externally with experts, high level decision-makers, and peer organizations - Experience networking in the humanitarian and development sectors - Excellent writing skills and the ability to translate complex material and data into coherent, succinct, compelling communications - German language skills at C2-level, English language skills at B2-level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CERF) - Takes initiative and seeks continuous improvement and innovation. - Ability to work on tight deadlines - Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and a strong dedication to the IRC's mission, purpose and values.

What We Offer

- Meaningful work in a multi-cultural team - Attractive benefits for employees such as gym membership, company pension plan, job bike leasing, job ticket subsidy and special leave days - 30 days of annual leave - Flexible hybrid-work options (working hours, office/homebased) - Training and development opportunities.

As an organization committed to an empowering and inclusive work environment, we avoid any form of discrimination. We welcome applications from people regardless of their national origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability status or age and strongly encourage applications from candidates with a history of migration and resettlement. We believe in fair and equal treatment of all applicants and therefore kindly ask you to refrain from including photos in your application documents.

Please submit your complete application documents via our application portal.

If you have any questions, also on the topic of inclusion, please do not hesitate to contact Friederike Haarbrücker (HR.Deutschland@rescue.org).

Please submit your application by March 4th 2024.

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Added 2 months ago - Updated 2 months ago - Source: rescue.org