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RAI Advocacy Fellow

Category: Law/Legal

Job Description

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 A&I’s Resettlement, Asylum, and Integration (RAI) team seeks a Fellow for a short term assignment to assist with a particular aspect of our policy and advocacy work involving policy research and budget analysis, monitoring of policy developments and legal research and analysis related to federal and state legislation. Topics that may come up during the term include issues related to the federal and state appropriations, national refugee resettlement program and ORR funding streams and more. The RAI Policy & Advocacy team engages in advocacy at the federal, state, and local levels. 

Job Responsibilities

  • Currently enrolled or recently completed graduate program. Currently enrolled or recently completed JD program.
  • Relevant studies include, but are not limited to, public policy and public administration programs with relevant coursework in policymaking, budgetary processes, and federalism.
  • Interest in and familiarity with U.S. refugee, asylum, and integration policies.
  • Strong research, analytical, and reporting skills.
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritize various tasks in a fast-paced work environment.
  • Ability to work productively in a team environment as well as under minimal supervision, taking the initiative to ask questions as needed.
  • Experience or existing familiarity with local, state and federal appropriations processes is a plus.
  • Legal research and analysis skills are a plus.
  • Lived experience with conflict or crisis-driven displacement, resettlement, asylum, immigration or migration is an asset in this role.

Skills

  • Gain unique experience conducting research and analysis for policy and advocacy aims.
  • Gain experience researching and analyzing with an advocacy focus.
  • Learn about administrative, budgetary, and legislative advocacy processes and opportunities at the federal, state, and local levels.
  • Network within the IRC to coordinate with programmatic partners.
  • Understand core elements of the U.S. policymaking process and track federal pass through funding within state budgets.
  • Learn about process of coordinating advocacy across a large international NGO.

Salary

  • Negotiable

Others

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 $143 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.

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IRC - International Rescue Committee

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Job Summary

  • Salary: Negotiable
  • Job Type: Full Time
  • Employment Type: Permanent
  • Experience: 0 to 1 Year
  • Vacancy: 1
  • Job Level:Mid
  • Gender: Any
  • Published on:July 15, 2025
  • Application Deadline: September 16, 2025
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About the Company

  • Company Name: IRC - International Rescue Committee
  • Address: 122 East 42nd Street, New York, New York
  • Website: https://www.rescue.org
  • The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, IRC offers life-saving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in more than 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities, IRC restores safety, dignity, and hope to millions uprooted by conflict or disaster. IRC leads the way from harm to home. In 2007, the IRC began providing humanitarian assistance to vulnerable and crisis-affected people in Jordan in response to an influx of Iraqi refugees and the strain on host communities. Following the eruption of the Syrian war in 2011, hundreds of thousands of refugees crossed into Jordan. The ongoing insecurity in Syria and the growing needs of refugees have strained Jordan’s resources and infrastructure and exacerbated pre-existing issues like water scarcity and high unemployment.  As resources become more limited, refugees and host communities have fewer economic opportunities and become more vulnerable. The IRC’s new strategy for Jordan shows our commitment to improving the safety, health, education, and economic well-being of people affected by conflict, in camp-based (Za’atari, and Azraq camps) refugees and urban-based refugees, and in coordination with the humanitarian community and the Government of Jordan.