Evidence Action

Manager, Analysis and Operations

Evidence Action

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • District of Columbia, Washington

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Salary

💰 $71,400 - $80,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Financial Strategic Thinking and Scenario Modeling: Build directional budget models and scenario analyses to support long-term strategy for the Safe Water Africa portfolio.
  • Conduct cost modeling for various program delivery approaches (e.g. standalone vs layered programs, technical assistance models) to inform decision-making.
  • Apply structure, assumption-based analysis (e.g. BOTEC-style modeling) to estimate costs, evaluate tradeoffs, and inform program strategy in evolving contexts.
  • Provide decision-oriented financial insights to program leads navigating complexity and scale.
  • Financial Management and Analysis: Lead budgeting processes for Safe Water programs in partnership with program teams, including developing grant proposal budgets, managing quarterly updates, and conducting variance analysis to optimize resource allocation and identify trends.
  • Prepare accurate financial reports, donor submissions, and operational dashboards in collaboration with Finance and program teams, developing new tools as needed to enhance decision-making and ensure compliance with organizational and donor standards.
  • Oversee vendor and contractor payments, ensuring compliance with contractual terms and organizational standards.
  • Support the Associate Director and Grants team in donor financial close-outs, ensuring all expenses and allocations are correctly accounted for and documented.
  • Relationship Building and Country Partnership Orientation: Cultivate strong, trust-based relationships with country teams and program implementers.
  • Proactively design financial tools, analyses, or processes that solve field-level pain points and improve decision making.
  • Move beyond compliance checking by engaging as a thought partner, bringing value to program teams through financial insight and solution design.
  • Program Operations Support: Partner with operational and program teams to provide financial input for programmatic expansions and scaling efforts in new geographies.
  • Develop and manage systems to track deliverables, timelines, and key operational processes, including procurement, contracting, and compliance for Safe Water programs.
  • Document standard procedures and streamline financial and operational processes to drive efficiency across the Safe Water portfolio.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree with 5-7 years' experience as a professional who has demonstrated excellence with financial analysis and budgeting.
  • You can translate financial and technical data into informative, decision-oriented reports.
  • You have strong professional experiences using Excel (i.e. developing and maintaining complex spreadsheets).
  • You can manage competing and evolving project deadlines.
  • You have project and upward management skills, including proactively flagging deadlines and progress towards them.
  • You have experience working collaboratively in a multicultural professional environment.
  • You can synthesize large volumes of complex information and distill and convey themes for decision making.
  • 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.