Job Overview
As the Advocacy Officer, you are responsible for building the profile, influence and credibility of IRC’s work with UK politicians, political parties and opinion formers on our humanitarian and development issues. You will be delivering our influence strategies and identifying strategic lobbying opportunities and enabling colleagues to exploit them fully through the use of innovative and creative tactics that help IRC stand out in a crowded arena. You will support building critical strategic relationships to help deliver on IRC’s objectives in parliament. You will contribute fresh insights and analysis to inform IRC’s influence approaches, tactics, and messages.
Major Responsibilities:
- Advocacy Strategy: Support in delivering advocacy strategies, collaborating with the Advocacy Manager, policy leads, public advocacy and communications colleagues, to advance IRC’s key advocacy objectives.
- Political and policy monitoring: Analyse and report on relevant political and policy trends and regularly communicate across external relations teams. Expand IRC’s political reach by tracking and analysing shifting government positions, individuals engaging on our issues, and the politics around our issues. Track political processes and profile opportunities / events; including bills, select committee inquiries, and other parliamentary and political developments.
- Stakeholder management: Building and maintaining relationships with a core group of political champions in and around Westminster, whilst raising IRC’s profile and awareness of our positions on key issues among a wider political audience in order to increase our ability to deliver policy change.
- Political engagement: Developing and providing regular written or oral briefings to MPs, Peers, government officials, and other decision makers on key policies and campaigns. Producing specific asks to parliamentarians on a regular basis – parliamentary questions, debate contributions etc.
- Communications: Provide market and audience expertise to communications team to craft public advocacy in the UK. Support team in developing communications strategy and develop materials for advocacy targets, including digital/social content and take actions.
- Teamwork: Support a positive team culture by acting openly and collaboratively, supporting colleagues in their work and sharing credit with others where appropriate.
- Steward Gender Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: both in the culture of IRC, as well as in the policy solutions we develop and the ways we wield influence.
Key Working Relationships:
- Position reports to: Advocacy Manager
- Internal contacts: Policy and Advocacy colleagues, Communications, Technical Excellence leads; International Programs leads, External Relations Department
- External contacts: Parliamentarians, government officials, key opinion formers, think tanks and sector colleagues in the UK.
Job Requirements:
Work experience:
- Experience in delivering advocacy strategies in the UK. 2 years + of experience working on development and humanitarian issues.
Demonstrated skills and competencies:
- Proven success in delivering successful strategies that influence/impact on legislative and executive policy.
- Good understanding of relevant the UK’s political structures and processes, and familiar with leverage points within these institutions that can be targeted to achieve policy change objectives.
- Ability to innovatively and creatively apply influencing techniques and tactics to consistently make IRC stand out from the crowd in Westminster, Whitehall and with other key international stakeholders.
- Knowledge of development and humanitarian issues in the UK.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate successfully with parliamentarians and colleagues in the humanitarian and development fields.
- Strong writing skills and the ability to translate sophisticated material and data into coherent narratives that resonate with policymakers.
- Experience of developing effective working relationships with colleagues, and working collaboratively in multi-disciplinary project teams.
- Ability to work quickly against deadlines.
- Initiative and ability to work independently on fast-paced issues, and balance competing demands.
This role is offered on a fixed term basis of 8 months.
The salary quoted (£41,933.57 per annum) reflects the full time annual amount. The total salary payable will be pro rated in line with the contract duration (approximately £28,000 for the full contract), in accordance with IRC UK pay grading.
Candidates must have the right to work in the UK.
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Major Responsibilities:
Strategic Planning & Performance
- Own Airbel’s annual planning cycle: translate strategic direction into departmental and sub-departmental OKRs, working with portfolio leads to set measurable goals aligned to the Delivery Letter.
- Design and maintain data collection processes, indicators, and reporting mechanisms — leveraging AI-enabled tools where possible — that give leadership clear, timely visibility into progress.
- Synthesize and present periodic progress reports to leadership, surfacing trends, risks, and opportunities to inform decision-making.
- Coordinate efforts to advance the department’s GEDI objectives within the annual planning and monitoring cycle.
Knowledge Management & Learning
- Own the architecture for how Airbel gathers, stores, organizes, and shares information across a distributed, multi-disciplinary team.
- Maintain intuitive, reliable systems and routines — from centralized repositories and documentation standards to synchronous learning sessions — exploring AI and smart automation to reduce manual upkeep and improve discoverability.
- Build lightweight, sustainable processes for capturing project-level lessons and making them accessible across teams.
- Ensure critical documentation and file management is current, well-organized, and easy to navigate.
Departmental Meetings & Knowledge Sharing
- Plan and facilitate departmental meetings with effective agenda development, facilitation, and follow-up that inform, inspire, and enhance learning.
- Identify and create opportunities for cross-team knowledge sharing, ensuring meetings and convenings surface insights and lessons that strengthen Airbel’s collective work.
- Foster a culture of transparency and collaboration through regular communication routines and engagement initiatives.
People Operations Coordination
- Facilitate and project-manage the department’s annual performance evaluation cycle, ensuring timelines, communications, and deliverables run smoothly.
- Manage Airbel’s annual Pulse survey end-to-end, from design and execution to data analysis and presentation of findings to leadership.
Job Requirements:
- 6–8 years of experience in strategic planning, operations, or a similar role in a complex, global organization — ideally in a humanitarian, development, or research context.
- Demonstrated ability to design, build, and improve organizational systems and processes (e.g., goal-setting frameworks, knowledge management infrastructure, reporting dashboards, governance routines).
- Strong experience with OKR or similar performance management frameworks, including the ability to facilitate goal-setting processes with diverse stakeholders.
- Proven facilitation skills with experience leading meetings, workshops, and cross-functional convenings that drive alignment and action.
- Strong technical skills with productivity and project management tools (e.g., Microsoft 365, Power Automate, Excel scripting) and demonstrated ability to build AI-enabled workflows for reporting, knowledge management, and process automation.
- Excellent organizational skills, strong attention to detail, and a proven ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills (written and verbal) to engage diverse global stakeholders, gather feedback, and drive adoption of new processes and tools.
Compensation: (US: $94,000 - $110,000/ UK: £58,736 - £68,526) 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.
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