Executive Vice President, Evidence

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• Oversee the technical and strategic aspects of our evidence teams, ensuring MLE, cost-effectiveness modeling, and epidemiology connect into a single, coherent picture that informs day-to-day program improvement and major decisions, rather than separate streams of analysis • In collaboration with GLT and program leads, set a cross-program evidence strategy, defining the questions Evidence Action is answering across its portfolio, matching the right methodological approaches and connecting evidence to both delivery and organizational learning • Champion evidence across a program’s lifecycle, ensuring we’re designing the right evidence generation to feed lessons into scaling decisions and evolving our cost-effectiveness tools so organizational leaders understand what drives cost-effectiveness and we can actualize modeled impact • Institutionalize monitoring and learning (e.g. A/B testing) in programs so performance keeps improving well beyond launch • Sharpen where Evidence Action’s own evidence generation is uniquely valuable versus where other partners are better placed • Understand how different evidence sources come together across programs to model our impact, and establish and enforce minimum standards for addressing weak evidence, uncertainty, and assumptions in that modeling • Design and implement the systems that let us review evidence consistently across our portfolio, including program stage gates and structured evidence and programmatic reviews at key decision points • Own data quality assurance so it is structurally independent from evidence generation, setting methodology standards, commissioning re-surveys and integrity checks, and surfacing issues early and transparently • Provide evidence-based recommendations that inform program scale-up, ongoing iteration, and wind-down decisions, holding a strong voice in those decisions while partnering with program and regional leaders who bring essential local context • Build internal technical management capacity that benefit our programs • Lead a multi-disciplinary function through consolidation and change, building trust across MLE, cost-effectiveness, and epidemiology teams and bringing our people along through a significant transition • Identify where AI and modern data tools can strengthen evidence generation and decision-making at scale • Serve as a senior organizational voice on evidence, engaging donors, the board, and technical partners on our evidence philosophy, methodological choices, and standing evaluation arrangements • Champion a transparent culture that shares learning; including learning from what does not work, both inside the organization and with the relevant external stakeholders • We are looking for a leader with rigorous technical training who has spent much of their career as a user and steward of evidence in real implementation settings, not primarily as an academic researcher.