[Hiring] Executive Vice President, Evidence @Evidence Action

Role Description

Evidence Action was built on the belief that data should drive every decision, from how programs are designed and delivered to how resources are allocated and scaled. Evidence and cost-effectiveness are central to Evidence Action’s comparative advantage; they are what makes us credible and distinctive to government partners and donors alike, and this role will shape how that advantage evolves as we grow.

As the Executive Vice President (EVP), Evidence, you will own the strategic growth and transformation of our Monitoring, Learning, and Evaluation teams, our Cost-Effectiveness arm, and our epidemiology capability at a pivotal organizational moment. You will sit at the intersection of technical rigor, organizational leadership, and external credibility, holding overall accountability for the reliability of the evidence that guides how Evidence Action designs, delivers, and scales its programs.

This is a role with two connected mandates under one leader. You will lead the generation and use of evidence throughout the program lifecycle in close collaboration with programs, while maintaining an independence in your assessment of evidence, surfacing uncomfortable findings when necessary. Bringing these together in one senior role reporting directly to the CEO gives evidence a genuine, empowered voice in our decision-making.

In this role, you will sit on Evidence Action’s Global Leadership Team (GLT), which sets organizational strategy and direction. This is a pivotal opportunity for an executive who can navigate complexity, inspire high-performing teams, and translate evidence into action, driving measurable improvements in millions of lives for years to come.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Lead a holistic evidence function
• 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.
• In collaboration with GLT and program leads, set a cross-program evidence strategy, defining the questions Evidence Action is answering across its portfolio.
• Serve as a technical thought partner to teams across Evidence Action, making evidence more readily visible and actionable across the organization.
• Champion evidence across a program’s lifecycle, ensuring we're designing the right evidence generation to feed lessons into scaling decisions.
• 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.

• Own independent quality assurance
• Understand how different evidence sources come together across programs to model our impact.
• Design and implement the systems that let us review evidence consistently across our portfolio.
• Own data quality assurance so it is structurally independent from evidence generation.
• Provide evidence-based recommendations that inform program scale-up, ongoing iteration, and wind-down decisions.

• Strengthen technical capability and relieve program teams
• Build internal technical management capacity that benefit our programs.
• Lead a multi-disciplinary function through consolidation and change.
• Identify where AI and modern data tools can strengthen evidence generation and decision-making at scale.

• Represent Evidence Action externally
• Serve as a senior organizational voice on evidence, engaging donors, the board, and technical partners.
• Champion a transparent culture that shares learning; including learning from what does not work.

Qualifications

• The courage to act on evidence.
• Technical leadership and management at scale.
• Program-implementation grounding.
• Technical credibility and range.
• A strong leader of teams and change.

Requirements

• This is not an audit or compliance role.
• This is not a publication engine.
• This is not a remote or distant role.

Location

This role location is flexible, though we have a preference for a country where Evidence Action has an office, with India, Kenya, and Nigeria of particular interest. This role will require approximately 20% travel nationally and internationally as needed.

Benefits

• For US based roles, Evidence Action provides comprehensive benefits including international health care, HSA/FSA options, life insurance, disability coverage, retirement plans with a matching component, generous and flexible leave options, as well as other employee perks on a reimbursement basis.

Salary

For US based, the pay range for this role is $210k - $230k.

Evidence Action is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.