Manager, New Program Development

Evidence Action

Manager leading development of new health programs for Evidence Action, a global nonprofit. Overseeing pipeline interventions from research insight to proven programs ready to scale, fostering partnerships.

Posted 7/20/2026full-timeWashington • District of Columbia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $71,400 - $80,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in program management and quantitative social science, with a strong ability to assess evidence quality and model cost-effectiveness. Capable of leading cross-functional collaborations and communicating complex findings to diverse stakeholders.

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Quantitative Social ScienceProgram ManagementCost-Effectiveness ModelingStakeholder AlignmentDecision-Usefulness Communication

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Hard Skills

Cost-Effectiveness AnalysisEpidemiological ModelingStatistical ModelingEvidence SynthesisField Research DesignData AnalysisProgram EvaluationLearning Activity DesignImpact AssessmentResearch Methodology

Soft Skills

CollaborationTrust BuildingCritical ThinkingCommunicationProblem Solving

Industry Keywords

International DevelopmentGlobal HealthCross-Country SettingEvidence-Based Decision MakingStakeholder Engagement

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in quant social science, program management, international development, or global health in a cross-country setting.
You read primary research and study design critically, synthesize large and conflicting evidence bases, and form an honest view of what the evidence does and does not support.
You build or rigorously interpret cost-effectiveness, epidemiological, or statistical models, and reason clearly about assumptions, sensitivity, and uncertainty.
You design lean learning activities that target the uncertainty actually blocking a decision, and you deliver them on a timeline.
You move things forward amid uncertainty, building, prototyping, and unblocking rather than waiting for perfect information.
You build trust and align both internal teams and external partners (researchers, implementers, government, and donors) across cultures and sectors toward a shared path.
You make complex technical findings clear and decision-useful for non-technical audiences, in writing and live.
You manage several workstreams at once, sequence sharply, and make defensible calls about where to spend scarce time.
You look for the reasons your favorite idea might be wrong, and welcome the same scrutiny of your own work.

Benefits

Comp & perks

international health care
HSA/FSA options
life insurance
disability coverage
retirement plans with a matching component
generous and flexible leave options
other employee perks on a reimbursement basis