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International Rescue Committee (IRC)

AI Program Manager (Governance) (12-month Fixed Term)

AI summary of the role

The IRC seeks an AI Program Manager to lead enterprise AI governance and project management for a global humanitarian organization.

What you’ll do

  • Manage intake and documentation of AI use cases and tools flagged for high-risk review, coordinating with legal, security, data protection, and ethics reviewers.
  • Maintain templates, trackers, and audit trails for all reviewed use cases and decisions.
  • Lead project management for high-priority AI initiatives, including developing project plans, risk registers, and facilitating scrum and sprint planning.
  • Produce regular status reports for senior leadership and proactively resolve blockers and risks.

What you’ll bring

  • 6+ years of project management experience in IT or technology-driven environments.
  • Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-stakeholder programs with significant technology components.
  • Bachelor's degree required.
  • Hands-on experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, sprint planning, backlog management, retrospectives) required.

Technologies

Jira · Monday.com · Agile · Scrum · AI governance · responsible AI · project management tools

Source and classification

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consequential applications of AI in the social sector. As the IRC's AI Program Manager, you will help shape how a global humanitarian organization — operating in over 40 countries — harnesses artificial intelligence to improve outcomes for some of the world's most vulnerable people. This is not a role managing technology for its own sake; it is a role where smart, responsible AI adoption can directly accelerate impact at scale. You will lead and coordinate the IRC's most important AI initiatives: driving enterprise AI projects from concept to delivery, ensuring that AI tools adopted across the organization are evaluated rigorously and responsibly, and coordinating the cross-functional teams working to embed AI into how the IRC operates. You will work at the intersection of technology, program delivery, and organizational change — partnering with senior leaders, technical experts, and
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