Strategic Initiatives Manager

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 Safe Water Now  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  by about 25%. Over the past two years, we’ve more than doubled our footprint 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

Required Qualifications:

• 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 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. for roles based 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.

Benefits 

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!

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