Evidence Action
Chief People Officer, The AI Access Initiative
United States · Exec
No sponsorship$220k-$240kDetected 18 days ago
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About the role
- The AI Access Initiative is at an early and critical juncture.
- We are hiring a Chief People Officer to define and scale people operations for our team.
- While we are currently incubated at Evidence Action, we plan to spin out on November 1, 2026 as an independent organization.
Responsibilities
- This role sits at the intersection of talent, performance, and organizational design, leveraging AI to ensure thoughtful design of efficient systems.
- Build the hiring engine Own recruiting end to end: Run every stage of the hiring process in partnership with program teams, including sourcing, pipeline development, structured assessment design, offer construction, and close.
- Build pipelines before we need them: For senior and specialist roles, the best candidates aren't applying, they're being found.
- Develop sourcing strategies and maintain warm networks in markets where top talent is scarce.
- Design structured hiring processes with rigorous assessments: Ensure every role has identified key criteria, consistent evaluation, and interview panels that systematically test for core criteria and cultural fit.
- Build hiring capacity across the organization: Coach hiring managers to be exceptional interviewers, give calibrated feedback, and make decisions efficiently.
- Design the organization Design structure ahead of growth: Partner with leadership on role design, team boundaries, reporting structures, and the sequencing of hires.
- Build and maintain high talent density: Create a culture where excellence is recognized and areas of growth are rapidly addressed.
- Build people systems that scale Own the cultural formation in a global context: Has an understanding of and experience in 1) building and supporting cross-cultural teams and 2) maintaining a shared, global culture.
- 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.
Compensation
- 220,000 - 240,000 USD per year.
Benefits
- Incubated at Evidence Action, we're rapidly 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 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.
- 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 across Africa and Asia.
Company info
- Design onboarding that sets people up for success: Build a structured experience that orients new hires to the mission, their role, our values, the team, and what great performance looks like.
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