Working at the International Rescue Committee
Careers, recruitment routes and current opportunities with the International Rescue Committee
Explore International Rescue Committee careers in humanitarian response and refugee support, including hiring patterns, application guidance and current vacancies.
Overview
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to humanitarian crises and supports people affected by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and rebuild. Its programming is organised around defined outcomes including health, safety, education, economic wellbeing and power, and it works both in crisis affected countries and with resettled communities in the United States and Europe.
IRC is known for its emphasis on evidence. Programme design is tied to measured outcomes, and research and evaluation are embedded in delivery rather than added afterwards. That shows up in recruitment, where monitoring, evaluation, research and learning roles are advertised at volume alongside programme management.
Most vacancies sit in country programmes, with regional offices providing technical and management support and headquarters functions in New York, London, Amman, Nairobi, Bangkok and Berlin. Contracts are typically fixed-term and tied to grant funding, with national posts filled locally.
Organization profile
Teams are structured around health, protection and rule of law, economic recovery and development, education, and violence prevention and response and these set the standards for country programmes. Candidates are assessed against these technical standards, not general humanitarian familiarity.
The organisation is explicit about client responsive programming and about diversity, equality and inclusion in its selection criteria, and it applies safeguarding screening to all appointments. Experience working with institutional donors such as BHA, ECHO, FCDO and UN agencies is common in the professional roles it advertises.
Recruitment at a glance
70 vacancies advertised in the last 12 months in our database.
Grades and levels
| Level | Vacancies |
|---|---|
| 5-9 years | 28 |
| 3-4 years | 22 |
| 0-2 years | 17 |
| 10+ years | 3 |
Contract types
| Contract | Vacancies |
|---|---|
| Job | 68 |
| Consultancy | 1 |
| Internship | 1 |
Where the roles are
| Duty station country | Vacancies |
|---|---|
| United States | 22 |
| Kenya | 10 |
| Syria | 6 |
| United Kingdom | 5 |
| Sudan | 4 |
| Venezuela | 2 |
| Jordan | 2 |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2 |
| Germany | 2 |
| Uganda | 1 |
How to apply
Apply through the IRC careers portal. Check the eligibility line. Many country roles are national posts restricted to nationals or legal residents of the duty station, and resettlement roles in the United States or Europe have their own work authorisation requirements.
Write in outcomes. State what changed for the people served, how it was measured, the budget and team you managed, and the donor compliance you handled. Where you have used IRC-style outcome frameworks or comparable measurement systems, say so directly.
Assessment usually combines a competency-based interview with a written or technical exercise, and senior posts involve multiple panels. Safeguarding and reference checks precede any offer, and recruitment often runs for several weeks after the closing date.
Salary and conditions
UN Global Jobs does not publish salary, allowance, benefits or contract-condition guidance for International Rescue Committee. Pay and conditions differ by grade, contract type and duty station, and they change over time. The authoritative statements are the ones in the vacancy notice and in the offer made by the organisation, which is where you should verify them. Where a vacancy notice states pay, we reproduce it on the listing; where it does not, ask the recruiting team before making commitments.
Sources
Vacancy figures on this page are calculated from notices published by the International Rescue Committee and collected by UN Global Jobs. Organisational facts are taken from the IRC's own published material.