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