Description
About the Safe Water Now Team
Evidence Action’s Safe Water Now program provides safe drinking water to over 10 million people across rural Uganda, Malawi, and Kenya. Recent evidence highlights that water treatment reduces all-cause child mortality by about 25%. Evidence Action’s designs deliver safe water at the source in rural settings through its established Dispensers for Safe Water (DSW) and newly launched In-Line Chlorination (ILC) interventions. Over the past year, we’ve more than doubled our footprint in East Africa and are exploring expansion into new countries, as well as developing an innovation agenda through our Accelerator process to develop the next generation of safe water programs.
In addition, through its technical partner in India, EAII Advisors, we’ve launched a technical assistance program to help the government of India initially reach 17.5 million people with safe water, with plans to reach nationwide scale.
In this role you would be reporting to our Manager of Safe Water Country Support. This is a hybrid role, located in Nairobi, Kenya.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support planning and coordination across the Safe Water Now program (e.g., meeting coordination, internal progress updates, and updates to external stakeholders, etc.).
- Provide solution-oriented and strategic programmatic support to the Safe Water Now program in Kenya, Malawi, and Uganda.
- Support implementation of our Optimization Agenda, working with colleagues at country, regional, and global levels to test potential improvements to chlorine dispenser and ILC devices.
- Collect, consolidate, and share lessons learned and best practices (strategies, tools, and experience) across countries, including on technical questions.
- In collaboration with the Monitoring, Learning & Evaluation (MLE) Strategy and Delivery teams, analyze programmatic data to support the monitoring of country-level program process against milestones and continual improvement.
- Support cross-functional alignment across teams (e.g., Cost-Effectiveness, Communications, Policy and Partnerships, Finance and Operations, MLE, etc.).
Requirements
- You have a Bachelor’s degree in international development, public policy, environmental studies, public health, or a related field.
- You have 3-5 years of professional experience, especially in Africa at national or international levels with NGO or large multi-national organizations is desirable.
- You have strong analytical and research skills, with the ability to interpret data and draw meaningful conclusions.
- You’re a team player, with the ability to collaborate within and between geographically dispersed teams across multiple time zones.
- You have a proactive attitude with the ability to take initiative and adapt to changing project requirements.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with a demonstrated ability to synthesize evidence into effective presentations and written documents (presentation decks, summary documents, briefs, etc) with actionable recommendations for diverse stakeholders, both internally and externally.
About Evidence Action
Evidence Action is a global nonprofit organization with an approach distinctive in international development – we exclusively scale interventions that are backed by strong evidence and can be delivered with exceptional cost-effectiveness. Our programs have grown since our founding in 2013 to reach over 515 million people globally with our interventions. We deliver high impact for every dollar spent, as recognized by GiveWell, The Life You Can Save, and Charity Navigator.
We do development differently. We take a data-driven approach to identifying, scaling, and continuously improving programs which deliver immense impact, ensuring these solutions measurably improve the lives of millions. Our Deworm the World Initiative has helped governments in Africa and Asia deliver over 1.8 billion childhood deworming treatments, improving health, education, and incomes. Dispensers for Safe Water provides sustained safe water access to over 10 million people in rural Africa, preventing childhood illness and deaths.
We drive innovation: Our Accelerator builds the next generation of exceptional programs, taking an approach most similar to a venture capital model. We are ruthless in exiting programs which do not meet our criteria; those that advance deliver outsized impact for millions of people.
We are global. Across nine countries in Africa and Asia, our 700+ people are united by a tremendous passion for our mission and impact. We are strong because of our diversity of experience, geography, and background – with over 90% of our people in the countries where our impact is focused.
We have big ambitions. Over the next decade, we’re setting our sights higher: We aim to reach over 600 million people globally to fulfill our vision of a world where hundreds of millions of people in the poorest places have better opportunities and their lives are measurably improved. We believe in bold and urgent action – because poverty doesn’t wait, and neither should we.
We need great people. Our success to date is due to the collective work of our amazing staff. To achieve our ambitious goals, we are looking for people who share our passion for evidence, cost-effectiveness, and scale. We seek individuals who take an entrepreneurial approach, enjoy tackling hard problems, and have a bias to action and results. If our vision and approach excite you as much as it does us, we invite you to join us.
Evidence Action is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.
Benefits
Evidence Action provides a comprehensive benefits package for employees worldwide. Benefits include:
- comprehensive health insurance,
- retirement savings options,
- life insurance,
- generous leave,
- avenues for engagement and recognition.
*Benefits may differ based on country-specific regulations
