Executive Vice President, Evidence

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 are 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.

• Deworm the World has delivered over 2 billion treatments, significantly reducing worm prevalence and generating more than $23 billion in lifetime productivity gains.
• Safe Water Now has 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 will 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 are looking to work flexibly and with purpose, join a team that delivers measurable change for millions.

The Role

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. Our recent Dispensers for Safe Water update reflects the transparent, evidence-first culture this role will help lead.

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, rather than separate streams of analysis.
• In collaboration with GLT and program leads, set a cross-program evidence strategy, defining the questions Evidence Action is answering across its portfolio, matching the right methodological approaches and connecting evidence to both delivery and organizational learning.
• Serve as a technical thought partner to teams across Evidence Action, making evidence more readily visible and actionable across the organization, evolving our cost-effectiveness tooling to enhance visibility into what drives cost-effectiveness and shortening the feedback loop between realized costs and impact and our projected impact. 
• Champion evidence across a program’s lifecycle, ensuring we're designing the right evidence generation to feed lessons into scaling decisions and evolving our cost-effectiveness tools so organizational leaders understand what drives cost-effectiveness and we can actualize modeled impact.
• 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 un