The Senior Technical Director is a key member of the Policy and Practice leadership team and a member of IRC’s larger Senior Leadership Group (SLG). As such, the Senior Technical Director has responsibilities in different arenas:
As a member of the SLG, the director partners consistently and effectively with IRC regional and country program leadership in order to understand and adapt the team’s technical assistance to the changing contexts and capacities of IRC’s country programs.
As a leader of the TU, the director provides a clear vision and execution plan that connects the health unit to organizational and department strategy. This includes strategic and consistent representation and fund-raising in both private and public sectors; diligent and disciplined financial and grants management oversight; and the management necessary to leverage diverse competencies, identify and promote talent and create the type of culture and incentives needed to sustain a high performing and energized team of professionals.
Major Responsibilities:
ADVOCATE: Act as the most senior advocate in the relevant technical area, regularly communicating the needs and priorities of IRC country programs to donors; participating in high level policy and practice forums; advocating for the adoption of interventions proven to improve people’s health and for resources to enable the IRC and others to meet people’s needs across contexts. Requires a deep appreciation and support of IRC’s commitment to drive fundamental policy and practice changes that will ensure people receive the wide-ranging support they need in the areas of emergency, primary, environmental and reproductive health care.
STEWARD: Develop and implement strategic business development efforts to support IRC country programs and enable the health team to deliver high quality technical assistance, implement a focused research agenda and stay ahead of relevant global health policy and practice decisions. Bring discipline and rigor to financial and grants management of health unit funds, partnering with colleagues in P&P and Finance departments to harmonize planning, budgeting and reporting.
LEADER: Act as the most senior leader of a talented group of technical leaders, researchers, advocates and operations colleagues, bringing vision, cohesion and authentic intellectual dialogue together to create a strong culture of performance and collaboration. As a senior leader with peers across technical and field based domains, bring collaboration, rigor and solutions to opportunities and challenges IRC faces both in the contexts in which it works, and throughout its operations. Represent Policy & Practice and the Senior Leaders Group communities consistently in field travel and across teams throughout IRC.
MANAGER: Invest deliberately in the support and development of IRC staff within the TU and in support of related technical colleagues in IRC country programs. Responsible for recruitment, retention and assuring IRC has the human resources to deliver superb technical assistance and thought leadership.
Job Qualifications:
Education: MD and/or MPH required.
Work Experience: A minimum of 15 years of relevant experience, with field and programmatic experience in a donor, NGO or comparable international agency required. Experience and familiarity with global health donors, peer agencies and national contexts required, preferably in humanitarian contexts. Experience and expertise raising funds from bilateral, multilateral and private donors. Leadership and management experience in complex global organization.
Demonstrated Skills and Competencies: Demonstrated skills and competencies related to public health care delivery in low resource/conflict affected environments. Strategic planning. Private and statutory business development/ fundraising. Understanding of the program life cycle and best practice used by aid organizations to design, implement and measure the progress of interventions. Fluency in the relevance and use of empirical evidence to know what works best to achieve meaningful results for people. An existing and strong professional network in humanitarian and global health communities. Very strong leadership and management competencies including the ability to bring people along with a stated vision and strategy, and capacity to communicate effectively with IRC field leadership, technical peers, and colleagues in fundraising, communications and advocacy. Excellent public speaking and writing skills are essential.
Language Skills: Excellent spoken and written English essential. Proficiency in one other IRC relevant language (French, Arabic, Swahili, etc.) strongly preferred.
Working Environment: Travel up to 25% of time. Preferably based in NYC but open to discussing other IRC HQ offices.
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