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Evidence Action

Vice President, The AI Access Initiative

New York, New York, United States · Exec

No sponsorship$210k-$250kDetected 78 days ago
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About the role

  • 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.
  • We are hiring two roles at this level: Vice President, Agriculture and Vice President, Health, each responsible for programmatic strategy and execution across their respective portfolio.

Responsibilities

  • We have a founding team, two live program portfolios, government partnerships in India reaching millions of farmers, and a pipeline of opportunities that will drive significant expansion.
  • You Will: Build, Scale, and Learn Serve as a core member of the executive leadership team, shaping organizational strategy, culture, and enterprise-wide priorities.
  • Develop and steward 2AI's open-sourced playbooks and insights - building durable field knowledge, not just running programs.
  • Design and run fast, rigorous pilots.
  • Partner with technical and research teams to ensure AI-powered approaches are grounded in rigorous evidence, adapted to local realities, and designed for sustainable delivery.
  • Build Partnerships and Mobilize Resources Serve as 2AI's programmatic bridge among AI labs, global development actors, leading researchers, frontline implementers, and regional governments - translating credibly across all of these worlds.
  • 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.
  • We create "public good," open-sourced playbooks, toolkits, and insights that define how to design and launch tractable and impactful AI-enabled programs.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • Hire and mentor a high-performing leadership team and staff, creating a highly mission-driven culture focused on moving with the scale, thoughtfulness, and urgency required.
  • Bring intellectual curiosity and the ability to learn rapidly in a fast-moving space, translating what's technically possible into what's practically scalable for underserved populations.

Skills

  • Stay at the frontier of AI-enabled solutions for LMICs; actively tracking, testing, and integrating emerging tools and approaches.

Compensation

  • $210k-$250k

Benefits

  • 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.
  • Vice President, Agriculture and Vice President, Health, each responsible for programmatic strategy and execution across their respective portfolio.
  • Similarly, you will set programmatic strategy and drive learning, innovation, and scale in our Health portfolio, building new approaches and partnerships to drive population-level scale.
  • Here, our initial goal is to scale AI-enabled clinical decision support to 20M+ people via telemedicine platforms, dramatically improving diagnosis and health outcomes at a national level.

Company info

  • 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 are also planning to explore and test novel interventions for low-resource settings, including direct-to-consumer (DTC) health interventions.
  • We are hiring two roles at this level:

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