Evidence Action

People Operations

• Partner with senior leadership to align HR strategies with organizational goals, ensuring a positive and high-performing work environment.
• Support employee engagement by developing programs that enhance morale, satisfaction, and overall experience.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the Director of P&C, providing insights and recommendations on organizational design, workforce planning, and change management.
• Anticipate future talent and organizational needs as Evidence Action India scales across states, contributing to long-term workforce planning.
• Lead HR operations, ensuring compliance with all applicable labor laws, internal policies, and best practices.
• Manage the end-to-end payroll process across all states for all employees, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant execution every cycle.
• Oversee HR policies, procedures, and the employee handbook, keeping them up to date and relevant.
• Oversee employee relations, ensuring fair conflict resolution, grievance handling, and disciplinary processes.
• Lead and manage HR budgets, including quarterly budget reviews, and optimize resources to support strategic HR initiatives.
• Streamline and standardize policies and processes across all states in which EAII operates, ensuring consistency, compliance, and operational efficiency throughout.
• Own and manage Total Rewards end-to-end, including providing compensation structuring and benchmarking support, insurance management and renewals, and managing other employee benefits.
• Drive process improvement and analytics across P&C, using data-driven insights to streamline workflows and inform decision-making.
• Own and drive the end-to-end employee lifecycle, from onboarding and integration through ongoing engagement, development, and offboarding, ensuring a seamless, consistent, and positive experience at every touchpoint.
• Lead performance management, including goal setting, feedback cycles, and development plans.
• Develop and implement training programs, supporting continuous learning and leadership growth.
• Lead employee reward and recognition programs to ensure employees feel valued, appreciated and motivated.
• Develop and implement employee engagement strategies, including annual engagement survey feedback analysis and other feedback mechanisms, to continuously enhance workplace culture.
• Promote work-life balance initiatives, wellness programs, and mental health support to ensure overall employee well-being.
• Foster a culture of open communication and transparency, creating an environment where employees feel heard, supported, and empowered.
• Organize and facilitate team-building activities, employee events, and leadership forums to strengthen Evidence Action culture.

Senior Manager, People & Culture – EAII Advisors

Program Manager

• Own a portfolio of pipeline interventions, end to end. Drive several promising candidate programs through the Accelerator's stage-gate process, and decide what advances, what gets reshaped, and what exits our pipeline.
• Interrogate the evidence with honesty. Assess each intervention's evidence base on the merits, including effect sizes and their quality, external validity, variability, negative and contradictory findings, and gaps.
• Model impact and cost-effectiveness under uncertainty. Partner with the Cost-Effectiveness team to build and pressure-test CEAs, reasoning explicitly about assumptions, sensitivity, and uncertainty, and translating them into clear go/no-go implications.
• Design and run decision-relevant learning in close collaboration with our MLE team. Scope and execute lean, rigorous field activities such as scoping, formative research, and pilots, to unblock decisions.
• Build the case and align stakeholders. Craft compelling, evidence-grounded investment cases. Bring researchers, implementers, governments, and donors along, anticipate objections, unblock barriers, and create momentum.
• Collaborate across Evidence Action. Work hand in hand with our Growth team to build necessary resourcing and funding, relevant Program teams who bring the implementation muscle, and the Country Teams who cultivate and manage the policy and government partnerships in the places we work.
• Be Evidence Action's face with partners. Independently lead conversations with study authors, implementing organizations, government officials, and funders, and use those relationships to source new ideas and partnerships.
• Strengthen the Accelerator's methods, AI-enabled workflows, and quality bar, and mentor analysts and interns on the workstreams you lead.

Manager, New Program Development

Chief of Staff

• Leads strategy design and development for 2AI's India work across health, agriculture, and other domains; Translates high-level direction into plans, milestones, and owners
• Brings structure to ambiguous problems: scope the question, gather the inputs, frame the options, and drive to a decision.
• Oversees and manages mission critical strategic projects involving cross-functional stakeholders, including growth planning, scaling of new programs, evaluation, grant reporting, and decision making
• Develops internal and external communication materials and drive decision making across the Senior Leadership Team, ensuring that leaders are able to remain focused on top priorities
• Acts as an extension of the India Director: prepare for and follow up on key meetings, draft talking points and briefing materials, and carry priorities forward so the Director can stay focused on the highest-value work
• Drives decisions to closure across the India team, making sure the right people are involved and that decisions are documented and acted on
• Coordinates between the India team and 2AI's global team in the US, planning and overseeing shared workstreams and keeping both sides aligned across time zones
• Manages relationships with government stakeholders, NGO implementation partners, and other external partners, anticipating their needs and representing 2AI credibly
• Champions the use of AI tools across the organization and conducts regular, high-quality trainings and showcases for India staff and SLT on AI
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis and provide clear, calibrated recommendations to support decisions, distinguishing what the evidence supports from what is still uncertain.
• Build the analysis that informs prioritization across the India portfolio: where to invest, what to scale, and what to stop.
• Assists with program and goals development, tracking, and keeping the leadership team apprised of critical internal deadlines and external areas of interest that impact 2AI.
• Exercises the utmost discretion when dealing with sensitive and confidential material and safeguards all information

Chief of Staff, AI Access Initiative

Chief Marketing Officer

• Own the roadmap, vision, and execution of scaling donations across individuals fundraising: Drive a major influx of capital from high-net-worth donors, building the pipeline, strengthening the donor community, and personally closing transformational gifts, while overseeing the broader individual donor funnel from retail to HNW, reaching new audiences with Evidence Action's impact and deepening ties with existing supporters.
• Institutional fundraising: Partner with program teams on scaling our work across strategic foundations and major institutions, and advocate across the sector for evidence-based development
• Communications, press, & website: Oversee Evidence Action’s brand voice and narrative, finding the most interesting and differentiating content - from stories about our work with fluid dynamics engineers in India to partnering on events with Nobel Prize-winning Economists
• Donor analytics: Oversee analytics infrastructure and reporting
• Manage existing team of 10 employees
• Serve on executive leadership team of 900+ person organization
• Be a passionate advocate and spokesperson for Evidence Action's mission and approach, in meetings with donors and partners, press interviews, and conferences
• Drive organization transformation, training team members on best practices in fundraising and relationship management
• Establish systems to ensure meaningful scale, including analytics infrastructure, donor pipelines, Salesforce tooling, and more

Chief Growth Officer

Artificial Intelligence

• Serve as a core member of the executive leadership team, shaping organizational strategy, culture, and enterprise-wide priorities.
• Hire and mentor a high-performing leadership team and staff, creating a highly mission-driven culture focused on moving with the scale, thoughtfulness, and urgency required.
• Ensure every program has a strong learning architecture: clear hypotheses, rigorous measurement, rapid iteration cycles, and honest reporting. Use cost-effectiveness evidence to guide resource allocation — scaling what earns it, cutting what doesn't.
• Develop and steward 2AI's open-sourced playbooks and insights — building durable field knowledge, not just running programs.
• Set and achieve ambitious program strategies for 2AI's Agriculture and Health portfolios — vision, priorities, delivery models, and expansion roadmap — in close collaboration with the CEO and regional and program leads. Achieve high-caliber reach and impact for hundreds of millions of people.
• Design and run fast, rigorous pilots. This includes strong measurement and feedback loops from day one, rapid iteration on what isn't working, and clear-eyed calls on what deserves to scale.
• Stay at the frontier of AI-enabled solutions for LMICs; actively tracking, testing, and integrating emerging tools and approaches. Bring intellectual curiosity and the ability to learn rapidly in a fast-moving space, translating what's technically possible into what's practically scalable for underserved populations.
• Partner with technical and research teams to ensure AI-powered approaches are grounded in rigorous evidence, adapted to local realities, and designed for sustainable delivery.
• Serve as 2AI's programmatic bridge among AI labs, global development actors, leading researchers, frontline implementers, and regional governments — translating credibly across all of these worlds.
• Shape technical offerings in partnership with leading AI labs, including adapting AI tools for underrepresented languages, low-bandwidth environments, and last-mile contexts.
• Support regional leaders — including our India Country Director — in navigating government relationships, adoption pathways, and policy enablement, providing strategic input and senior representation where needed.
• Lead efforts on fundraising — contributing to compelling narratives for major funders, leading grant development, and making the case for ambitious investment in the portfolio.
• Represent 2AI at senior levels in public and private forums, building 2AI's profile as the leading ecosystem coordinator for AI deployment in LMICs.

Chief Program Officer

Manager

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of MMS's global MLE framework and country MLE strategies to support scale-up decision-making, and provide senior technical oversight to IFA's multi-country MLE strategy, including indicator standardization across geographies, through the MLE Strategy Manager.
• Be the technical owner for MMS analysis plans, sampling methodologies, data collection tools, and analysis outputs, including manuscripts, abstracts, and reports; oversee large-scale primary data collection for MMS, including survey design, enumerator training, and data quality protocols, and provide senior oversight of IFA primary data collection through the MLE Strategy Manager.
• Lead implementation research for IFA and MMS, including process evaluations, pilot studies, and assessments of acceptability and feasibility for new program features or geographies.
• Identify the need for and develop MLE best practices that strengthen the broader nutrition portfolio.
• Identify MLE design strengths, limitations and risks against the outcomes of interest, justify design choices against the proposed activity scope, available budget, and planned use of the data; ensure MLE plans are right fit for the phase of programs (testing, pilot, scale-up, expansion) and ensure a learning orientation in the work you do.
• Assess the validity and reliability of program data collection by identifying measurement error, data quality issues, and limitations in administrative or monitoring data; communicate these limitations clearly to programs and donors.
• Make and defend complex, judgment-based MLE decisions, including those that fall outside of standard SOPs, to support program scaling and expansion.
• Partner with Program leadership on program strategy and expansion planning, including identifying MLE evidence needs for new country contexts, contributing to theory of change updates as programs evolve, and helping translate evidence into scale-up and adaptation decisions.
• Provide thought partnership to regional MLE teams on MLE planning and implementation for MMS and IFA, ensuring quality of data collection and analysis.
• Lead cross-country analysis and synthesis of MLE results to inform MMS scale-up decisions, and provide senior oversight of IFA results interpretation and application across countries; translate complex MLE findings into clear, decision-relevant insights for program leadership, donors, and external audiences.
• Support engagement with donors on the proposed scope of MLE activities, ensuring alignment with program goals, and provide inputs on donor reports and fundraising proposals.
• Accountable for MLE scopes of work, budgets, and work plans for MMS, and oversee the IFA MLE scopes of work, budget, and work plan through the MLE Strategy Manager.
• Prioritize multiple work streams, mitigate risks, resolve challenges, and communicate expectations; use tactical planning tools to forecast inputs, outputs, and resourcing needs for MMS and IFA MLE activities on a one-year horizon.
• Manage the Manager, MLE Strategy initially, with potential for additional people management and consultant oversight in the future; develop direct reports to handle challenging opportunities independently, plan out career trajectories, and address underperformance when needed.

Senior Manager, MLE Strategy

QA Engineer

• Strengthen the WCA DAL team’s capacity to independently deliver high-quality CFS analysis by October 2026.
• Provide hands-on technical coaching to DAL team and develop structured analysis protocols.
• Function as a primary quality assurance reviewer on all analysis outputs during the engagement period.
• Support broader analytical capacity of the DAL unit through data analysis workflows and evidence-based reporting practices.

Consultant Analyst – Data Analysis, QA, Capacity Building

Supply Chain

• Lead end-to-end procurement and supply chain management for EAII, focusing on the India Safe Water Program.
• Drive complex procurement processes, chemical supply chain logistics, vendor performance management, and contract administration.
• Develop procurement and supply chain strategies aligned to organizational and program goals.
• Lead end-to-end procurement processes for goods and/or services including composite supplies.
• Design and manage end-to-end supply chains for chlorine tablets and consumables.
• Oversee demand planning, inventory, warehousing, multi-sourcing, and just-in-time delivery.
• Maintain procurement and supply chain risk registers and business continuity plans.
• Draft, negotiate, and manage contracts and SLAs.