Key Responsibilities:

Fundraising and Partnerships

Lead donor outreach and engagement with donors for Safe Water Africa fundraising.

Coordinate work planning around donor relationships, ensuring clear communication, timely reporting, and effective stakeholder management.

Develop fundraising pitches with External Relations support and create high-quality deliverables for external audiences to help support increased funding diversification.

Track and manage a wide range of grant-related activities, including funding commitments, project implementation milestones, reporting deadlines, and donor update meetings.

Strategy, Innovation and Optimization

Develop a sustainability plans by testing alternative options for transition and scale-up.

Provide strategy oversight around the expansion of safe water programming into new countries and support the team to identify programmatic barriers.

Oversee efforts focused on optimization of activities, driving towards greater cost effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of services.

Develop strategic direction for Safe Water in Africa over the next 5 years that builds on a sustainability plan and incorporates innovative approaches as pathway to scale and expansion.

Program Management

Create mechanisms for greater cross-region and cross-program learning through standardized SOPs and guidelines.

Coordinate global team technical and operational support to regional and country teams on Safe Water in current and future geographies.

Support coordination between the Dispensers for Safe Water program and other safe water interventions in the same geographies (including ILC), ensuring synergies and efficiencies.

Develop playbook for ‘Safe Water for all’ that includes standardized technical guidelines and forms basis for broader policy advocacy for water treatment.

Provide budget oversight for Safe Water Africa activities from global level including partnership with country and regional leadership teams to develop plans and ensure efficient allocation of resources to support the delivery of programmatic objectives.

 Safe Water Expansion

Support  scoping and piloting in new countries leading to scale up of large new interventions.

Manage efforts to build partnerships with a range of stakeholders for safe water expansion.

Team Development

Empower staff reporting to you, identify areas for growth, and effectively coach their learning.

Maintain and promote a positive and healthy work environment for the staff reporting to you.

• You have 10 – 15 years experience working in diverse, global contexts; Bachelors degree

• You are strategic in thinking and planning and the translation of this into program results; ability to connect the dots on ideas and thinking, turning open ended problems into opportunities for the team and organization.
• You have a strong capacity for fundraising, including cultivating new relationships and growing existing ones. Ideally, experience in fundraising for large global development programs.
• You can manage projects through their life cycles, and multiple projects simultaneously, taking into account moving priorities across a matrixed environment
• You enjoy building collaborative relationships across teams and navigate complex organizational systems.
• You can iterate in real time, employ data for decision making, and innovate and pivot to find success.
• You have a passion for the mission of Evidence Action and for creating value in international development.
• You have managed large, multi-country programs in international development in relevant sectors (e.g. WASH, health, nutrition), ideally in a matrixed organization.
• You enjoy learning new content areas and are able to absorb information and put it into practice.
• You have experience leading teams in a growth-oriented role, with 5+ years supervising direct reports.
• You are willing to travel up to 25% of the time across Evidence Action geographies in Africa.