Senior Director, Global Impact Partnerships

usaforunhcr; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

USA for UNHCR is seeking a Senior Director of Global Impact Partnerships to accelerate growth and translate humanitarian priorities into transformational private-sector engagement. This enterprise leader will shape a multiyear strategy across private-sector partners in the United States and collaborate globally to maximize humanitarian impact.

The candidate will manage a 12+ member team of fundraising, relationship-management and partnership professionals, influence senior leaders, and build

Qualifications

• Senior leadership and strategic acumen across complex partnerships.
• Strong influence and relationship-building across global stakeholders.
• Data-driven, impact-focused decision making.

Responsibilities

• Set enterprise partnership strategy across corporate, foundations, civil society, faith-based, community and gift-in-kind partnerships.
• Drive sustainable revenue growth with accountability for acquisition, retention, expansion, pipeline health, forecasting and delivery.
• Develop transformational partnerships that mobilize funding, employee engagement, marketing, thought leadership and in-kind resources.
• Lead and develop a high-performing, multidisciplinary team with clear accountability and inclusive leadership.
• Strengthen global collaboration across USA for UNHCR and UNHCR partners to align priorities and outcomes.
• Shape compelling partner propositions to advance humanitarian impact.

Job description

At USA for UNHCR, our people are the driving force behind our mission of delivering hope and opportunity to refugees worldwide. We're not just a workplace - we're a vibrant community of passionate, forward-thinking professionals committed to making a real difference. If you thrive in a dynamic, transparent, and data-driven environment, and want your career to directly impact lives across the globe, we invite you to join us!

The Senior Director, Global Impact Partnerships is an enterprise leadership opportunity at USA for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to accelerate ambitious growth and translate humanitarian priorities into transformational private-sector engagement. Reporting to the Chief Development Officer, this leader will shape and execute an integrated strategy for partnerships with private-sector organizations headquartered in the United States, including corporations, institutional foundations, civil society and faith-based organizations, community partners, and gift-in-kind partners, while collaborating globally to maximize humanitarian impact.

The Senior Director will steward a large, multifaceted team of 12+ fundraising, relationship-management and partnership professionals; strengthen the team's leadership, collaboration and performance; and create the conditions for talented colleagues to succeed. As a trusted enterprise partner, they will influence strategy and execution across USA for UNHCR, collaborate closely with senior leaders and Board members, and build strong, productive relationships with UNHCR colleagues around the world.

The role will deepen and expand complex, multi-year and multimillion-dollar partnerships while opening new pathways for financial support, gifts-in-kind, employee engagement, cause marketing, thought leadership and cross-sector innovation. Through these efforts, the Senior Director will help mobilize resources and relationships that advance UNHCR's work to save lives, protect rights and build better futures for people forced to flee.

Why This Role Matters Now

USA for UNHCR is entering an important period of partnership growth, innovation and organizational development. At a time when one in every 70 people worldwide is forcibly displaced, USA for UNHCR has an urgent opportunity to expand the resources, expertise and innovation available to people forced to flee. The Senior Director will build on a uniquely broad portfolio that spans corporations, foundations, civil society, faith communities and gift-in-kind channels to create integrated, transformational partnerships and shape a multiyear growth agenda.

By mobilizing financial support, capabilities and cross-sector solutions, this leader will help translate private-sector engagement into lasting humanitarian impact. The Senior Director will have the opportunity to strengthen an established platform, sharpen a multiyear growth strategy, develop leaders across a complex team and deepen collaboration with global colleagues and major partners at a moment of extraordinary humanitarian need.

Key Essential Functions and Accountabilities of the Job:

• Set enterprise partnership strategy. Establish and lead a multiyear strategy across corporate, foundation, civil society, faith-based, community and gift-in-kind partnerships, aligned with USA for UNHCR's growth priorities and UNHCR's humanitarian objectives.
• Drive sustainable revenue growth. Maintain executive accountability for acquisition, retention, expansion, pipeline health, forecasting and delivery against ambitious revenue and partnership goals.
• Develop transformational partnerships. Guide the cultivation, negotiation and stewardship of complex, integrated, multimillion-dollar and multi-year relationships that mobilize funding, expertise, employee engagement, marketing, thought leadership, advocacy and in‑kind resources.
• Lead and develop the team. Build, coach and retain a high‑performing multidisciplinary team; strengthen leadership capacity, clarify accountability, delegate decision‑making and foster inclusion, collaboration, learning and sustainable performance.
• Strengthen global collaboration. Serve as a connector across USA for UNHCR and UNHCR, establishing trusted ways of working, clarifying roles and decision rights, resolving competing priorities and aligning colleagues around shared outcomes.
• Shape compelling partner propositions. Collabor

This opportunity is ideal for an accomplished senior partnerships executive from a leading humanitarian, international development or mission‑driven organization. The successful candidate will bring external credibility, strategic and commercial judgment, inclusive people leadership and the ability to deliver results through trust and influence in a global, matrixed environment.

We recognize that exceptional candidates bring varied experiences and may not meet every listed qualification. If this opportunity aligns with your leadership experience and commitment to people forced to flee, we encourage you to apply.