About the Office of the CEO
Working in the office of Evidence Action’s CEO, Kanika Bahl, and her team, you will help design and drive forward strategic organization-wide initiatives. Our small and agile team takes on cross-team, cross-program, and cross-geography projects as we "flex" to meet the needs of our rapidly growing organization. Our work includes supporting the development of an updated strategy, tackling complex but critical challenges in the organization, exploring applications of AI to transform program delivery and internal operations, and providing “surge” support to transformational new programs.
As part of this role, you will help support our growing team, a $100M+, 2-continent, 4-country program that provides safe drinking water to over 10 million people across rural Uganda, Malawi, Kenya, and India. Water treatment reduces all-cause child mortality . Over the past two years, we’ve more than in East and Southern Africa, begun a partnership with the Indian government to reach tens of millions more and are exploring expansion into new countries.
You will report to Evidence Action's Associate Director of Strategic Growth.
Key Responsibilities:
In this role, you will support strategic efforts across the organization, helping our leaders realize programmatic and organizational priorities. Responsibilities are dynamic, focusing on high leverage needs of the organization and flexible based on the skills and interests of the candidate. Expected responsibilities include:
- Supporting Safe Water Now
- Support our Safe Water Team’s growing portfolio across the Africa Region and India with strategy and project management support, particularly for cross-geography, cross-delivery mechanism, or new initiatives.
- Help to prioritize resources throughout our geographies
- Inform programmatic decisions through relevant quantitative analysis
- Assist where needed in our program’s funding, strategy, and people efforts
- Cross Functional Projects & Organizational Strategy
- Facilitate strategic decision-making processes and subsequent change management efforts
- Support the organization as it engages in a strategy process in 2025
- Support Evidence Action’s AI strategy and pilots of AI integration into our programs and functions
- Support organization-wide annual planning and prioritization
- Executive-level communications
- Create proposals and other materials for Evidence Action internal leadership meetings, team-wide strategic processes, and donor- and partner-facing engagements, drawing on information from across the organization.
- Provide critical “surge support” to supplement existing bandwidth or fill gaps on program teams to manage risks or seize opportunities
- You have 2-4 years of management consulting experience; with interest in working with nonprofits, international partners, international development, or public health.
- You manage multi-stakeholder projects through their life cycles and multiple projects simultaneously, even with dynamic priorities and a matrixed environment.
- You develop strategic recommendations based on qualitative and quantitative analysis.
- You develop executive-level materials tailored to donors and other internal and external stakeholders.
- You build authentic and collaborative relationships with diverse stakeholders across the organization.
- You can plan for future needs while incorporating multiple perspectives, anticipating critical risks.
- You enjoy getting your hands dirty and taking on priority tasks.
- You have a passion for measurably reducing the burden of poverty for millions of people around the world.
About Evidence Action
Join a team of passionate changemakers as we connect theory with real-world impact. At Evidence Action, we bridge the gap between academic research and practical, measurable results as we work with a vast network of experts from government ministries to Nobel Prize laureates. Our programs have real, measurable, life-changing impact.
- We have reduced parasitic worm infections in children by 73-97% across 11 countries.
- We are working with 35 million of children and adolescents to fight anemia with weekly supplements in India and Malawi
- We are reducing under-five child mortality by ~25% through scaling safe water access to hundreds of millions,
- For just $0.50 a dose we are preventing stillbirths and neonatal deaths through testing and treating maternal syphilis - which today causes more deaths than pediatric HIV
Come experience the effectiveness of impact-driven and evidence-based decision-making firsthand, contributing to meaningful change on a global scale while working with mission-driven colleagues in an environment that nurtures both personal growth and collective impact.
We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of a U.S. employment visa at this time. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.
Evidence Action is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.
The expected role range for this US position is listed below. We consider multiple factors when determining the base salary for a role, including but not limited to: role scope, program budgets, internal equity, and a candidate’s qualifications and/or prior experience.
Note: Pay and benefits will be commensurate with the role specifications, local statutory requirements, and the cost of labor in the markets where we operate.
The pay range for this role: $70,000 - $90,000 per year
For US based roles, Evidence Action provides comprehensive benefits including international health care, HSA/FSA options, life insurance, disability coverage, retirement plans with a matching component, generous and flexible leave options, as well as other employee perks on a reimbursement basis. For more information visit our or ask our recruiting team!
What We Do
Evidence Action is a global non-profit operating in seven countries in Africa and Asia. We were founded in 2013 to address a big gap in the fight against global poverty–many of the most promising interventions are either implemented at a very small scale, or not at all. We set out to address this gap by building programs that would scale evidence-based and cost-effective interventions, leading to significant improvements in quality of life for hundreds of millions.
Our model worked. In less than a decade, our two flagship programs, the Deworm the World Initiative and Dispensers for Safe Water, have grown to measurably impact over 280 million people each year by supporting governments to deworm and through our last-mile delivery network providing safe water access. This success is achieved through the dedication and talent of our staff, the hard work of our partners, and the commitment of our supporters.
Every part of our work across the lifecycle of our programs is driven by evidence. This starts with the interventions we select to invest in, and continues as we use real-time data to refine and adapt our operations, including responding rapidly and effectively to resolve challenges as they arise.
Our pursuit of cost-effectiveness is driven by a recognition that when we optimize every aspect of our programs, we can reach as many people–and do as much good– as possible with each dollar. We measure value for money in terms of the number of lives we can help improve.
Scale enables our massive impact. We invest in solutions for which the need is great, and leverage existing networks like schools or community organizations to grow rapidly, minimize costs, and increase efficiencies. We think big and act urgently–because poverty does not wait.
By 2024, we seek to double our impact. We are strengthening and expanding our existing programs, and working to identify a new generation of evidence-based and cost-effective interventions that we can scale to reach millions more
