Senior Manager, New Program Development
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Evidence Action is hiring a Senior Manager to lead the development of its next generation of health programs in Nigeria. The role sits within the Accelerator team, driving early-stage interventions from research insight through to proven, fundable, and scalable programs. The position reports to the Accelerator Director with a dotted line to the West Africa Regional Lead.
- Owns a portfolio of early-stage health interventions from insight to scale-ready program
- Reports to Accelerator Director with dotted line to West Africa Regional Lead
- Venture-style, stage-gated pipeline with rigorous evidence and cost-effectiveness focus
- Requires strong analytical rigor and partnership-building skills
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The New Program Development (NPD) team drives this work. We source and vet new ideas, dig into the evidence and cost-effectiveness, build partnerships with researchers, governments, and implementers, and test concepts in the field to turn the best ideas into real programs.
You will join a close-knit team that puts evidence first, thinks big, acts urgently, and is willing to challenge convention to reach more people. You will report to the Accelerator Director with a dotted line to the West Africa Regional Lead.
We are hiring a Senior Manager to lead the development of our next generation of health programs. You will own a set of early-stage interventions and drive each one from a research insight to a program that is proven, fundable, and ready to scale, or to a clear and well-reasoned decision to stop. You bring the rigor of an analyst who can interrogate evidence honestly and reason carefully under uncertainty.
You also bring the drive of a builder who can source opportunities, cultivate partnerships, and turn ideas into programs that work in the real world. Together, those strengths let you find and build the interventions that deliver the most health impact for every dollar spent.
Our Accelerator is the engine for new programs. It is a venture-style, stage-gated pipeline that finds the most promising health interventions and develops the strongest into programs ready to scale. Only about 2% of the interventions we evaluate make it through, and those that do have gone on to raise over $100 million.
Key Responsibilities
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Requirements
- You design lean learning activities that target the uncertainty actually blocking a decision, and you deliver them on a timeline
- You have a Bachelor's Degree and 6 - 10 years of
Experience
in quant social science, program management, international development, or global health in a cross-country setting
You make complex technical findings clear and decision-useful for non-technical audiences, in writing and live
You build or rigorously interpret cost-effectiveness, epidemiological, or statistical models, and reason clearly about assumptions, sensitivity, and uncertainty
You manage several workstreams at once, sequence sharply, and make defensible calls about where to spend scarce time
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 look for the reasons your favorite idea might be wrong, and welcome the same scrutiny of your own work.
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 have
working in an international setting and working with diverse teams
You move things forward amid uncertainty, building, prototyping, and unblocking rather than waiting for perfect information
Benefits
Compensation is competitive and commensurate with the individual's credentials, experience, and internal pay scale.
Evidence Action provides a comprehensive
package for employees worldwide.
may differ based on country-specific regulations
Pension/ Retirement savings options
Paid leave
Avenues for engagement and recognition
Comprehensive health insurance
include:
Application Closing Date
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