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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Founded in 1933 at the call of Albert Einstein, the IRC is one of the world’s largest international humanitarian non-governmental organizations (INGO), at work in more than 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities helping people to survive, reclaim control of their future and strengthen their communities. A force for humanity, IRC employees deliver lasting impact by restoring safety, dignity and hope to millions. If you’re a solutions-driven, passionate change-maker, come join us in positively impacting the lives of millions of people world-wide for a better future.
Background:
IRC’s People & Culture Department supports a global workforce of approximately 22,000 to deliver on our strategic ambitions related to management, learning, values, and diversity.
Job Overview:
Reporting to the Strategy and Delivery Director for People and Culture (P&C) the Senior Project Manager will be responsible for planning strategic departmental projects and supporting effective delivery against those plans. This includes coordination, risk management, and measurement of high priority projects, leveraging technical project management skills, clear communication, and close collaboration with subject matter experts and business stakeholders.
Main Responsibilities:
Project Management
• Provide project management support to the Global P&C team on a variety for global projects.
• Personally drive project delivery, problem solve issues including applying a “roll up the sleeves and fix it” attitude.
• Utilize established criteria and tools to effectively and efficiently facilitate and report against program execution with measurable results.
• Facilitate effective collaboration of project contributors across partner functions in order to deliver efficient and timely project delivery.
• Integrate and manage the program timeline by identifying all project internal & external interdependencies.
• Develop key project tools and tracking for project sponsors, such as project plan, project timeline, decision logs, RACI model, project briefs.
• Perform risk and issue management at the program level: Collaborate with all project leadership to identify risks, issues, and mitigations that are not visible at the task level but impact the overall project or broader program/portfolio.
• Interface with other departments or field office locations when necessary to coordinate local action.
• Coordinate and document internal meetings, interviews, focus groups, and stakeholder engagement.
Communications
• Coordinate communications strategy and plan.
• Assist in content creation, including presentations, project updates, and proposals.
• Collaborate with internal communication team to develop and deliver the global staff communications and cascade dates, intended outcomes, etc.
• Act as a gate keeper for all new content being developed and ensure consistency among the different tools/materials produced.
• Oversee the implementation of the “Action Plan Template” and in partnership with Data Excellence ensure that data is visualized and used for decision making per the action planning principles.
Job Requirements:
• 6 to 8 years project management work experience, preferably in People and Culture / Human Resources
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
• PMP or Prince2 certification preferred
• Strong skills in MS Office; PM tools; collaboration platforms such as MS Teams and Zoom
• Knowledge of spoken and written French, Arabic or Spanish a strong plus
Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:
• Excellent project management and organizational skills including creation of detailed work plans, close attention to detail, and superior time management.
• Outstanding interpersonal, presentation, verbal, and written communication skills
• “Client-first” mindset: ability to listen and understand the needs of office, units and country teams and incorporate them into the processes, tools, approached that are developed.
• Experience interacting and communicating effectively with members of a diverse, complex organization at multiple levels.
• Ability to synthesize insight and well-supported opinions based on varying feedback from wide range of stakeholders and independent research.
• Ability to deliver high quality work on schedule.
• Ability to anticipate and assess situations accurately and recommend/implement effective courses of action required.
• Highly collaborative, inclusive, consultative, and resourceful work style.
• Ability to work within a highly matrixed and sophisticated agency organizational structure and to adapt to shifting priorities.
• Exceptional discretion and confidentiality in dealing with critical material.
• Excellent judgment, tact, initiative, creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, and self-motivation.
Compensation:
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.
US Benefits:
The IRC offers a comprehensive and highly competitive set of benefits. All US employees are eligible for sick time, a 403b retirement savings plans: up to 4.5% immediately vested matching contribution, plus an 3-7% additional IRC contribution, and an Employee Assistance Program which is available to our staff and their families to support in times of crisis and mental health struggles.
In addition, full-time employees are eligible for 10 US paid holidays, 20-25 paid time off days, disability & life insurance, medical, dental, and vision insurance (employee contribution starting at $135, $7, and $5 per month respectively) and FSA for healthcare, childcare, and commuter costs. Part-time employees are eligible for a proportionate amount of paid time off. These additional benefits apply to employees who work at least 6 months within a 12 month time period.
Standard of Professional Conduct: The IRC and the IRC workers must adhere to the values and principles outlined in the IRC Way – our Code of Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, Accountability, and Equality.
Commitment to Gender, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: The IRC is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, respectful, and safe work environment where all persons are treated fairly, with dignity and respect. The IRC expressly prohibits and will not tolerate discrimination, harassment, retaliation, or bullying of the IRC persons in any work setting. We aim to increase the representation of women, people that are from country and communities we serve, and people who identify as races and ethnicities that are under-represented in global power structures.
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