Job Overview: Marketing & Mobilization (M&M), a part of External Relations (ER) is a dynamic team, tasked with overseeing and creating communications and marketing, building the IRC’s global profile and brand, increasing private revenue from deeper donor engagement and partnerships, and influencing our target audiences. In alignment with our Strategy100 commitments, M&M has launched ambitious multi-year campaigns that raise funding, profile and influence and will improve our share of voice and resonance in key geographies and globally.

The Content and Creative team, a part of M&M, consists of award-winning creative specialists and idea partners, developing powerful communications and experiences to engage audiences and ultimately to deliver on ER ambitions and objectives. Our mission is to be a leading provider of brand creative and storytelling productsabout the IRC’s clients, staff and programs.

The Associate Director, Private Fundraising Communications is a strategic leader focused on building a best-in-class grant writing and philanthropic communications arm within the IRC, ensuring content is compelling, on brand, and aligned with the organization’s programmatic goals. This person oversees the development and execution of concept notes, proposals, pitch decks, reports, and other fundraising content for private sector partners (High Net Worth Individuals (HNWI), Corporates, Foundations, Trusts, Global New Business).

Major Responsibilities:

Strategic Direction, Proposal & Grant Writing and Business Development

• Strategic Direction and Business Development: Drive the strategy for the Private Fundraising Communications team in close partnership with fundraisers and program leaders, ensuring alignment with IRC’s fundraising goals and organizational priorities.

Set and execute the team’s long-term vision, annual priorities, and workflow approach enabling the development of compelling cases for support across core functions—including evergreen content, emergency appeals, high-value proposals and “big bet” initiatives, restricted fundraising materials, knowledge management, and cross-team collaboration.

Fundraising Content Oversight and Writing: Oversee the development of compelling, donor centric content that showcases IRC’s impact and advances fundraising goals. As an editor and writer, partner closely with colleagues across the organization to translate complex programmatic information into clear, persuasive narratives tailored to diverse private sector audiences.

• Creative Operations and Project Management: Lead and continuously refine the writing cycle, production processes, and review systems for all private sector fundraising materials. Ensure smooth coordination across teams, clarity of roles, and adherence to timelines for proposals, reports, concept notes, pitch decks, and emergency appeals.
• Editorial and Quality Assurance: Provide editorial oversight, coaching, and structured feedback to ensure all written products meet IRC’s standards for excellence, accuracy, tone, and ethical storytelling. Champion adherence to branding, style guidance, and safeguarding principles. Ensure deliverables strengthen IRC’s positioning as a leading humanitarian and development actor to Global HNWI, Corporate, and Foundations & Trusts audiences.

Team Management & Leadership

• Creative Leadership: Provide strategic and day-to-day leadership to a high-performing team of four philanthropic communications professionals, cultivating strong writers and innovative thinkers through coaching, mentorship, and professional development. Foster a culture of excellence, accountability, equity and growth.
• Team Culture and Professional Development: Cultivate a culture of creativity, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Encourage experimentation and innovation in business development writing, reporting, and donor communications. Promote learning and professional growth by identifying internal development opportunities, strengthening team members’ networks, and ensuring access to relevant training.
• Project Allocation: Oversee team resourcing and assign projects through the Salesforce Case system, ensuring balanced workloads, equitable distribution, timely delivery, and strong client service to internal partners.
• Performance Measurement and Reporting: Develop and maintain reporting mechanisms to track workload, quality, outputs, and donor facing results across the Private Fundraising Communications portfolio. Analyze trends and performance data to inform strategic planning, improve workflows, and optimize content development processes across Global HNWI, Corporate, and Foundations & Trusts. ‑facing results across the Private Fundraising Communications portfolio. Analyze trends and performance data to inform strategic planning, improve workflows, and optimize content development processes across Global HNWI, Corporate, and Foundations & Trusts.
• Cross IRC Collaboration: Build and maintain strong partnerships with fundraising leads (Global HNWI, Corporate, Foundations & Trusts) and with teams across the IRC—including M&M, Finance, Crisis Response Recovery & Development, Resettlement, Asylum and Integration, and Research and Innovation. Facilitate feedback loops, run regular check‑ins with senior partners, and ensure the team’s content reflects IRC’s best‑in‑class programmatic work and strategic direction.

Job Requirements:

Work Experience:

• 7-8 years of editorial experience, preferably in a leadership role within a nonprofit, agency, or media environment.

Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:

• Experience in crafting compelling proposals for high-net-worth donors, foundations, and corporations.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with an eye for detail and an ability to translate complex ideas into clear, impactful messages.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and meet tight deadlines.
• Leadership experience with a demonstrated ability to mentor and develop a team.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
• Able to work across cultures and understand different expectations, norms of a diverse global community of funders, ensure awareness of differences in language and culture when reporting across different localities.

Compensation: (Pay Range: $106,000 - $126,780.88) Posted pay ranges apply to US-based candidates. Ranges are based on various factors including the labor market, job type, internal equity, and budget. Exact offers are calibrated by work location, individual candidate experience and skills relative to the defined job requirements.

Equal Opportunity Employer: IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Professional Standards: All International Rescue Committee workers must adhere to the core values and principles outlined in IRC Way - Standards for Professional Conduct. Our Standards are Integrity, Service, Equality and Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and enforces policies on Safeguarding, Conflicts of Interest, Fiscal Integrity, and Reporting Wrongdoing and Protection from Retaliation. IRC is committed to take all necessary preventive measures and create an environment where people feel safe, and to take all necessary actions and corrective measures when harm occurs. IRC builds teams of professionals who promote critical reflection, power sharing, debate, and objectivity to deliver the best possible services to our clients.

US Benefits: We offer a comprehensive and highly competitive set of benefits. In the US, these include: 10 sick days, 10 US holidays, 20-25 paid time off days depending on role and tenure, medical insurance starting at $163 per month, dental starting at $6.50 per month, and vision starting at $5 per month, FSA for healthcare and commuter costs, a 403b retirement savings plans with immediately vested matching, disability & life insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program which is available to our staff and their families to support counseling and care in times of crisis and mental health struggles.