Evidence Action Senior Manager, Innovation, Safe Water Jobs in Kenya

Evidence Action Senior Manager, Innovation, Safe Water Jobs in Kenya

About Evidence Action

Evidence Action is a global nonprofit organization with an approach distinctive in international development - we exclusively scale interventions that are backed by strong evidence and can be delivered with exceptional cost-effectiveness. Our programs have grown since our founding in 2013 to reach over 280 million people annually. We deliver high impact for every dollar spent, as recognized by,, and.

We do development differently. We take a data-driven approach to identifying, scaling, and continuously improving programs which deliver immense impact, ensuring these solutions measurably improve the lives of millions. Our has helped governments in Africa and Asia deliver over 1.4 billion childhood deworming treatments, improving health, education, and incomes. provides sustained safe water access to over 4 million people in rural Africa, preventing childhood illness and deaths.

We drive innovation: Our builds the next generation of exceptional programs, taking an approach most similar to a venture capital model. We are ruthless in which do not meet our criteria; those that advance deliver outsized impact for millions of people.

We are global. Across eight countries in Africa and Asia, our 400+ people are united by a tremendous passion for our mission and impact. We are strong because of our diversity of experience, geography, and background - with over 90% of our people in the countries where our impact is focused.

We have big ambitions. Our goal is to double our impact by 2024, to fulfill our vision of a world where hundreds of millions of people in the poorest places have better opportunities and their lives are measurably improved. We believe in bold and urgent action - because poverty doesn’t wait, and neither should we.

We need great people. Our success to date is due to the collective work of our amazing staff. To achieve our ambitious goals, we are looking for people who share our passion for evidence, cost-effectiveness, and scale. We seek individuals who take an entrepreneurial approach, enjoy tackling hard problems, and have a bias to action and results. If our vision and approach excite you as much as it does us, we invite you to join us.

Evidence Action’s Safe Water Program

Our flagship Dispensers for Safe Water (DSW) provides over 4 million people across rural Uganda, Malawi, and Kenya - and by the end of 2023, this will more than double to 9 million people. Recent evidence highlights that water treatment may be among the most cost-effective interventions available to save young children's lives, reducing all-cause child mortality by about 25%.

Our Dispensers for Safe Water program, based on research by Nobel-winning economists, utilizes an innovative and human-centric design to deliver water treatment at the source in rural settings, achieving usage rates which are 5x that of comparable interventions.

Given the tremendous benefits of safe water, Evidence Action is rapidly innovating to build the next generation of water treatment interventions. We believe the potential of these interventions is incredible, and with more than 1.8 billion people using contaminated water sources and causing more than 1/3 of all diarrhea deaths globally, the need is huge.

Evidence Action’s strategy for safe water is evolving and it will be a key area for growth in the coming years. To support this growth, we are looking to establish a small, tactical team focused on innovation that will define and execute projects designed to address key strategic questions.

Addressing these will ensure programs continue to be innovative, sustainable, effective and efficient. The team will scope, analyze and pilot new technologies, delivery models and target populations, to determine the most cost effective ways to deliver safe water to millions of people.

This could include developing utility partnership models, designing innovative finance structures or identifying fee for service models. To manage this, the team will be made up of entrepreneurial, analytical, big thinkers and will be able to think creatively and strategically to solve these challenges.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the development of the Innovation team, a new and important sub-team within the Global Safe Water team which will set the direction for our future work.

Build, manage, and develop a high-performing team
Apply innovation, partnership and innovative finance thinking and principles to consider new ways in which programs can be piloted and scaled.

Work with colleagues to identify and design projects through the development of an innovation process, defining problem statements, identifying solutions and designing interventions to test and iterate. Key is bringing innovation to key program barriers and thinking creatively about solutions.

Work with in country and regional teams to execute the projects, bringing in other cross cutting teams, to ensure effective delivery and learning is extracted for replication.

Will Manage complex and multi-faceted projects across multiple leaders to successful completion.

Provide project management support through the project cycle, ensuring coordination with specific global teams including Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, Cost Effectiveness, New Program Development.

Support the delivery of the wider Safe Water team strategy; supporting linkages between program implementation, new country expansion and the innovation team.

Support wider organizational priorities such as communications and external relations including supporting proposal development, reporting and stakeholders management.

Requirements

7 to 10 years experience of working in diverse, global contexts; Bachelor’s Degree

Experience of strategic thinking and planning and the translation of this into program results; ability to connect the dots on ideas and thinking, turning open ended problems into opportunities for the team and organization.

Experience in project management, delivered ideally in a complex organizational structure and cross culturally (often in different time zones).

Experience in real time problem solving, as part of smaller cross cutting teams and adept at using an analytical and entrepreneurial approach to trade risks with rewards and support innovation.

Experience in the WASH sector, and specifically in the water sector; specifically peri-urban and urban project and program delivery focused on water service provision to low income households in challenging environments.

Ability to adapt quickly to new and dynamic contexts and thrive in ambiguity.

Strong alignment with core values of Evidence Action.

Eager to join a growing team and organization in a role requiring extensive (25%) travel across program geographies.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; Evidence Action Senior Manager, Innovation, Safe Water Jobs in Kenya

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