About the Nutrition Program
The Nutrition Program leads the work for Evidence Action’s Deworm the World and Iron and Folic Acid Supplementation Programs. Deworm the World Initiative is an incredibly high impact program, helping to deliver over 1.4 billion treatments to children for intestinal worms since 2014. Deworm the World Initiative provides technical assistance to governments to implement high quality, cost effective, and sustainable programming.
In 2019, given the strength of our technical support on school-based delivery of deworming in India, at the request of government, Evidence Action launched a technical assistance program to support the delivery of Iron and Folic Acid (IFA) supplementation for children and adolescents 6 months – 19 years of age in India. The program is in a “test at scale” phase – it is being implemented across five states in India with a robust external evaluation design to measure changes in coverage. At baseline in 2019, the program reached 13.3 million children and adolescents; with our assistance, we are aiming to reach an additional 8.2 million children annually by 2023. The Nutrition Team is actively scoping potential nutrition interventions to expand its portfolio for even greater impact.
What we are looking for:
We are seeking a highly motivated, well-organized, financially savvy, and detail-oriented individual who is passionate about international development and interested in being a part of scaling promising evidence-based interventions to support our Nutrition team.
This individual should be excited and passionate about engaging in an environment focused on the twin goals of “Evidence” and “Action”. This position will offer an opportunity to provide high-caliber operational support to senior staff and teams in dynamic, rapidly-growing units within the organization. This role works across program, finance, and operations teams to help ensure strong systems are in place to manage financial resources and to support efficient program operations at scale.
Successful candidates believe deeply in the role that strong operational management, well-designed processes, and efficient systems play in enabling high-impact, cost-effective programs, and are enthusiastic about championing effective, efficient operations on behalf of the program pillars.
Key Responsibilities:
- In partnership with the team’s Finance & Operations lead, serve as the primary point of contact for program teams during the budget process, leading the initial collection and review of all budget inputs, and project managing timelines for all Nutrition team budget reviews.
- Track budget versus actuals, incoming funds, and commitments, and grant balance transfers.
- Liaise with the Finance department on the development of monthly financial dashboards and reports, ensuring the needs of the Program Leads are reflected.
- Compile initial expense input for Cost-effectiveness Team’s costing analysis.
- Prepare initial expense mappings for donor financial reports.
- Support the Program Teams in new country expansion due diligence, country scoping pre-trip planning, and execution of operational and financial workstreams required to ensure efficient and right-sized operations in future Evidence Action geographies.
- Review invoices from contractors for compliance with contract provisions and budgets, ensuring that payments are made in a timely manner.