Evidence Action
(Associate) Director, Program Innovation & Evidence, The AI Access Initiative
United States · Director
No sponsorship$142k-$162kDetected 46 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.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- We have a founding team, two live program portfolios, and a pipeline of opportunities that will drive significant expansion.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A proven track record of significantly scaling organizations and/or programs to deliver impact at scale, preferably in close partnership with national governments.
- Comfort with ambiguity and fast iteration; can define and test hypotheses, adapt quickly, and maintain focus on impact.
Skills
- Strong fluency with AI tools, and eager to experiment, learn, and adapt to emerging technologies.
Compensation
- $142,000 - $162,000 per year.
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.
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).
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