Evidence Action

Lead and scale fundraising, communications, and donor analytics to drive organizational growth and impact. | 15+ years experience with proven track record in fundraising or equivalent relationship-driven growth, team leadership, creativity, and data proficiency. | About Evidence Action At Evidence Action, we deliver data-driven interventions that transform lives at an unprecedented scale. We identify neglected global health issues and deploy proven solutions, forging healthier futures for generations. Our model operationalizes leading academic research (including from Nobel-winning economists). We measure progress and outcomes at every stage to ensure we're making a real impact for people living in poverty and suffering from preventable or treatable health issues. Operating across 11 countries, our team of 900+ has reached over 500 million people, working closely with governments to scale these interventions. • Our Deworm the World program has delivered over 2 billion treatments, significantly reducing worm prevalence and generating more than $23 billion in lifetime productivity gains. • Through Safe Water Now, we've saved the lives of over 15,000 children. • Our Accelerator explores untapped opportunities in global health, testing low-cost interventions with the greatest potential to save and improve lives. At Evidence Action, your colleagues are your greatest asset. You'll partner with high-caliber colleagues in an environment blending innovation, autonomy, and teamwork. Our team excels in disruptive thinking and believes in rolling up our sleeves to get things done. If you're looking to work flexibly and with purpose, join a team that delivers measurable change for millions. The Role We are hiring an innovative Chief Growth Officer to drive a step-change increase in Evidence Action's impact. This full-time role reports to the CEO. This is a rare moment to join a high-impact organization at an inflection point. While much of the global health sector has retracted since 2025, Evidence Action has strengthened its position — receiving increased support in 2025, participating in a new collaborative fund structure to accelerate the growth of one of our most promising programs, and heading into 2027 anticipating tailwinds for cost-effective giving. Over the past two years we have been professionalizing our fundraising function with real results: we are on track to more than triple our number of new high-net-worth individual supporters and expand our institutional partnerships year over year. The CGO who joins now will shape the function, the strategy, and the story — at precisely the moment the market is moving in our direction — all for the purpose of preventing deaths we already know how to solve. You will oversee fundraising, communications and thought leadership across retail and major individual donors, strategic foundations, and institutions, in close partnership with our programmatic and operations teams. You will develop fundraising theses and collaborative funds for both new and growing programs and ensure all strategies and resources are appropriately aligned. Since 2017 we have raised $230M+ from GiveWell and have roughly doubled our other sources of funding — and we are on track to raise $60M this fiscal year a strong base from which your team — a strong base from which your team will drive the next order of magnitude of growth. The ideal candidate is a proven closer with a strong track record of personally cultivating and closing seven-to-eight-figure relationships, has deep analytical instincts, and the ability to build and develop a high-performing team. The strongest candidates will come from major gifts and/or private institutional fundraising. We are also open to exceptional candidates from the private sector whose growth or business development work was relationship-driven and involved sophisticated, analytical counterparts — particularly from tech or finance. What matters most is a demonstrated ability to build trust through sustained cultivation and stewardship, a data-informed approach to pipeline development, and genuine excitement about making the case for cost-effective global health. Responsibilities • Own the roadmap, vision, and execution of scaling donations across: • Individuals fundraising: Drive a major influx of capital from high-net-worth donors with the potential to make 6-8 figure gifts, building the pipeline, strengthening the donor community, and personally closing transformational gifts, while overseeing the broader individual donor funnel from retail to HNW, reaching new audiences with Evidence Action's impact and deepening ties with existing supporters • Institutional fundraising: Partner with program teams on scaling our work across strategic foundations and major institutions, and advocate across the sector for evidence-based development • Communications, press, & website: Oversee Evidence Action's brand voice and narrative, finding the most interesting and differentiating content - from stories about our work with fluid dynamics engineers in India to partnering on events with Nobel Prize-winning Economists • Donor analytics: Oversee analytics infrastructure and reporting • Manage existing team of 10 employees • Serve on an 8-member executive leadership team of 900+ person organization • Be a passionate advocate and spokesperson for Evidence Action's mission and approach, in meetings with donors and partners, press interviews, and conferences • Drive organization transformation, training team members on best practices in fundraising and relationship management • Establish and/or refine existing systems to ensure meaningful scale, including analytics infrastructure, donor pipelines, Salesforce tooling, and more Requirements • 15+ years of professional experience; most candidates will have 10+ years in fundraising with a proven personal track record of closing significant gifts or partnerships. We will also consider exceptional candidates with equivalent relationship-driven growth or business development experience • Experience growing pipelines of $30M+ • Experience leading top performing teams (5+) and developing team members • Creativity in execution - you see opportunities that others don't, iterative approach to testing and validating tactics • Curiosity with a passion for "the close" (persistence in converting prospects into donors) • Utilizes a strong prioritization framework • Provide timely and actionable feedback to others; proactively solicit feedback and iterate • Comfort with AI, data analysis and Excel Position Location This is a US based remote role, a preference for a home base in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City. Our US office is in Washington, DC. The role requires approximately 20% travel, both nationally and internationally. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of a U.S. employment visa at this time. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. for roles based in the U.S. Benefits We consider multiple factors when determining salary for a role, including but not limited to: role scope, program budgets, internal equity, and a candidate's qualifications and/or prior experience. Pay and benefits will be commensurate with the role specifications, local statutory requirements, and the cost of labor in the markets where we operate. 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. For more information visit our website or ask our recruiting team! The US pay range for this role: $230,000 - $270,000. Evidence Action is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.

Lead testing, improvement, and scaling of AI-enabled programs in agriculture and health to benefit populations in poverty, managing forecast message testing, cost-effectiveness evidence, and partnerships. | 7-10+ years in international development or related fields with leadership skills, AI fluency, and experience designing randomized evaluations. | About The AI Access Initiative (2AI) We're at an inflection point in artificial intelligence – presenting both tremendous potential opportunity and risk for people in developing countries. AI capabilities are improving on a timescale measured in months, while development systems often move on timescales measured in decades. Much of the technology needed for positive impact exists today, but few organizations exist to bridge research, deployment, and scaled implementation: we must act now to ensure AI's benefits reach people in poverty in LMICs. Incubated at Evidence Action, we're scaling The AI Access Initiative, an organization focused on scaling AI-enabled 'big bets' to benefit tens or hundreds of millions of people in poverty in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We operate at the intersection of global development actors, top AI labs, and leading researchers to drive meaningful access to AI's benefits for the 3.5 billion people living in poverty globally. We create "public good," open-sourced playbooks, toolkits, and insights that define how to design and launch tractable and impactful AI-enabled programs. Given the scale of opportunity, we expect our portfolio to expand substantially, but to start, we're scaling two programs focused on AI in Agriculture and AI in Health. We are led by former Evidence Action CEO Kanika Bahl, a founding member of Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, and advised by Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer; Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic; and Kent Walker, President, Global Affairs for Alphabet and Google. This work builds on Evidence Action's track record reaching 530M+ people with cost-effective, evidence-based programs across 9 countries in Africa and Asia, with a focus on last-mile delivery. The Role 2AI is building fast. We have a founding team, two live program portfolios, and a pipeline of opportunities that will drive significant expansion. The programs we are running have credible pathways to 100s of millions of people. While incubated at Evidence Action, we plan to spin out in Q4 ‘26. Our Agriculture portfolio is scaling AI-enabled weather forecasting services to reach tens of millions of smallholder farmers, in close partnership with state and national governments in India and soon other low-and-middle income countries. We are seeking a rigorous, high-ownership Associate Director or Director, Program Innovation & Evidence to own the engine behind this work: testing and improving how forecasts are formatted, framed, and delivered; developing new forecast types in partnership with leading academics; and building the cost-effectiveness evidence base that determines what we scale. This role reports into the VP, Agriculture and includes people leadership, managing at least one senior manager across the program. You Will: Own forecast message testing: Run A/B tests across format, framing, and delivery mechanism to best practices for what drives farmer comprehension and behavior change. Scope and pilot new forecast delivery channels: Identify and test emerging distribution channels for forecasts, such as chatbots, WhatsApp, SMS, social media, etc., assessing reach, cost, and effectiveness against existing channels. Oversee development of novel forecasts: Partner with academics to develop high-impact forecasts of new types, managing a roadmap for how new forecasts are prioritized, developed, and benchmarked. This could include hiring and managing post-doctoral students to support in model benchmarking or dataset support. Support monitoring and evaluation (M&E): Coordinate with in-country teams to implement M&E and identify concrete ways to improve programs based on the insights. Lead cost-effectiveness analysis: Develop and update cost-effectiveness (CE) analyses for our agriculture programs, and stay abreast of the emerging evidence base. Scope other agriculture innovations: Assess new directions for the portfolio, including benchmarking, advisory services, and entirely new intervention types. Partner with stakeholders: Create new and nurture existing relationships with academic institutions, research groups, delivery partners, and other agriculture organizations. Develop best practices and thought leadership: Across all of the above, build best practices and replicable toolkits that can be applied elsewhere by others. Share key learnings with the sector through toolkits, blogs, and other public-good resources. The ideal candidate is an exceptional builder with the ability to drive outcomes in a fast-moving, high-stakes environment. Given the startup nature of this work, we seek contributors with high throughput, strong work ethic, and willingness to lean in and work extended hours. You will likely have: 7-10+ years' experience as a builder in international development, consulting, or an agriculture adjacent organization. Experience designing and running randomized or quasi-experimental evaluations (RCTs, A/B tests, or similar) – especially to measure behavior change. Track record translating evaluation results into product or program iteration, e.g. using comprehension or uptake data to redesign message content, format, or delivery channel. A proven track record of significantly scaling organizations and/or programs to deliver impact at scale, preferably in close partnership with national governments. Training or early career experience in a high-rigor environment (e.g., top-tier management consulting, high-growth NGO program leadership, strategy/econ research) and the ability to rapidly get up to speed in new technical areas including AI/ML forecasting concepts. Demonstrated success leading international development programs from idea to scaled delivery, including managing multi-stakeholder coalitions with governments, research institutions, NGO implementers, and private sector partners. A track record as a strong people manager and builder: able to set clear standards, empower others, and cultivate a high-performance culture across distributed and field-based teams. High EQ and the ability to influence across diverse partners, from AI/forecasting researchers to frontline delivery staff to senior government officials. Strong fluency with AI tools, and eager to experiment, learn, and adapt to emerging technologies. Comfort with ambiguity and fast iteration; can define and test hypotheses, adapt quickly, and maintain focus on impact. Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to synthesize complex technical ideas (e.g., AI/ML weather forecasting language) into crisp narratives for different audiences. Willingness and ability to travel extensively internationally (~20%) to India and other low-and-middle income countries. Passion for the mission of ensuring that the benefits of frontier AI reach the world's poorest populations, while mitigating its downside risks. Position Location This role location is flexible anywhere within the United States for fully remote candidates. Please note this role requires significant travel (~20%) to partner countries. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of a U.S. employment visa at this time. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. for roles based in the U.S. Evidence Action is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. The expected role range for this US position is listed below. We consider multiple factors when determining the base salary for a role, including but not limited to: role scope, program budgets, internal equity, and a candidate's qualifications and/or prior experience. Note: Pay and benefits will be commensurate with the role specifications, local statutory requirements, and the cost of labor in the markets where we operate. The pay range for this role is: $142,000 - $162,000 per year. This role will initially be housed at Evidence Action, with the explicit plan to transfer with the AI Access Initiative as a founding member of the team when that project is spun out as a new entity later this year. At that point, benefits and policies may change. 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. For more information visit our careers page or ask our recruiting team!