About this Senior Associate, Programmes role at Evidence Action

Evidence Action · Onsite · Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya

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’re making a real impact for people living in poverty and suffering from preventable or treatable health issues. Operating across 9 countries, our team of 800+ has reached over 500 million people, working closely with governments to scale these interventions.

Our Deworm the World program has delivered over 2 billion treatments, significantly reducing worm prevalence and generating more than $23 billion in lifetime productivity gains.
Through Safe Water Now, we’ve 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'll 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're looking to work flexibly and with purpose, join a team that delivers measurable change for millions.

The Role

Supports Kenya’s Deworm the World Initiative in delivering the national STH/SCH programme’s transition to targeted treatment, surveillance, and government-led control. The role manages programme workstreams spanning epidemiological classification, targeted Mass drug Administration, surveillance and early-warning response, drug supply chains, and health systems strengthening; provides technical assistance to the Ministry of Health and county systems; and supports the handover of routine functions. The Senior Associate also ensures effective delivery of school-based deworming where indicated, using programme data and field insights to guide planning, resolve uncertainties, and strengthen evidence-led implementation.

Requirements

Duties and Responsibilities

Coordinate targeted treatment, surveillance, classification, and related programme workstreams in line with national STH/SCH guidance.
Provide day-to-day technical assistance to government counterparts and support planning, coordination, stakeholder engagement, advocacy, and partner meetings.
Review programme plans, guidelines, SOPs, and reports; document implementation challenges, lessons, and recommendations.
Maintain and update county/IU classification and surveillance data, support impact assessments and field surveillance, and facilitate timely notify–verify–investigate–respond actions.
Ensure accurate flow of classification, surveillance, coverage, and treatment data into KHIS, eCHIS, IDB, and other reporting systems.
Support JAP/JRSM submissions, drug quantification, delivery monitoring, redistribution, and supply-chain reporting in collaboration with MoH and KEMSA.
Coordinate county advocacy, training cascades, community mobilization, MDA scheduling, field supervision, and implementation monitoring.
Ensure MDA occurs only where indicated, monitor coverage, dosing, compliance, adverse events, and implementation fidelity, and escalate critical issues promptly.
Train and supervise data collectors and field teams, maintain accurate programme records, and support post-MDA reconciliation and reporting.
Support evidence and classification documentation for national reporting and validation processes, including EPHP requirements, and undertake other assigned duties.

Key Performance Indicators

Timely, complete, and accurate programme reports and government technical assistance.
Accurate and timely JAP/JRSM submissions aligned with current classification and treatment needs.
Timely drug delivery monitoring, redistribution, and resolution of supply issues.
Training and targeted MDA activities completed on schedule and according to guidance.
Same-day escalation of severe adverse events and confirmed surveillance signals.
Timely collection, cleaning, validation, and reporting of programme data.
Timely root-cause analysis of unexpected MLE variations and actionable feedback to government.
Accurate, up-to-date county/IU classification records maintained within agreed timelines.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Project Management, or related field.
3–5 years of program implementation experience.
Proven teamwork, cross-cultural, and interpersonal skills.
Experience collaborating with government stakeholders.
Strong multitasking, time management, and communication skills.
Adaptable, collaborative, and constructively involved in organizational development.
Detail-oriented, accurate, reliable, flexible, and proactive.
Proficient in standard office software and web research.
Discreet with confidential matters.
Humble, self-reflective, and possesses a sense of humor.
Willingness to build working knowledge of surveillance-based and classification-driven programme design as the NSBDP transitions from broad MDA delivery toward targeted treatment and government-owned control.

Benefits

Evidence Action provides a comprehensive benefits package for employees worldwide*. Benefits include:

Comprehensive health insurance (medical cover for self and dependents)
Pension/Retirement savings options
Paid leave
Avenues for engagement and recognition

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About Evidence Action

We do development differently.

Evidence Action is a global nonprofit organization with an approach distinctive in international development – we exclusively scale interventions that are backed by strong evidence and can be delivered with exceptional cost-effectiveness. We take a data-driven approach to identifying and scaling interventions which deliver outsized impact for the hundreds of millions of impoverished individuals who are our clients. We deploy deep expertise in building for scale, coupled with a focus on rigorous measurement and continuous program improvement, to ensure these solutions measurably improve the lives of millions.

We deliver tremendous impact.

Our programs – in health, nutrition, and safe water – have grown since our founding in 2013 to reach over 280 million people annually. Our Deworm the World Initiative has helped governments across Asia and Africa deliver over 1.3 billion childhood deworming treatments – which have been shown to increase long-term income by 13%. This places deworming among the most cost-effective income generation programs in the world, as ranked by charity evaluators such as GiveWell and The Life You Can Save. Our Dispensers for Safe Water program provides sustained safe water access to over 4 million people in rural Kenya, Uganda, and Malawi. Our last-mile delivery network services communities through a free-to-use, human-centric design that increases usage over 5 times that of traditional water treatment options, preventing childhood illness and deaths caused by unsafe water. Dispensers for Safe Water has been recognized by Charity Navigator for its high cost-effectiveness, by Expo2020 as one of only 25 Global Best Practice Programmes, and a chlorine dispenser now resides in the Nobel Museum, selected by 2019 Nobel laureate Michael Kremer – whose work was integral to the program’s development.

We drive innovation.

Evidence Action’s Accelerator builds the next generation of exceptional programs, taking an approach most similar to a venture capital model. We thoughtfully advance promising new programs through a rigorous, 6 stage process – from desk research to testing at large scale. We are ruthless in exiting programs which do not meet our criteria on scalability, evidence of impact, and cost-effectiveness, ensuring that the programs that do advance deliver outsized impact for millions of people.

We are global.

Over 400 individuals work on our programs across eight countries – Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan, Uganda, India, and the United States, including both Evidence Action staff and close partners. We are united by a tremendous passion for our mission and the impact that together we create. We are strong because of our diversity of experience, geography, and background – with over 90% of our people in the countries where our impact is focused. This spirit, and our culture, are guided by a set of core values that underpin our work. These values embody our focus on evidence, urgency, iteration, and incessance in our search for solutions.

We have big ambitions.

Our goal is to double our impact by 2024, to fulfill our vision of a world where hundreds of millions of people in the poorest places have better opportunities and their lives are measurably improved. We believe in bold and urgent action – because poverty doesn’t wait, and neither should we.

We need great people.

Our success to date is due to the collective work of our amazing staff. To achieve our ambitious goals, we need to grow our team. We are looking for people who share our passion for following the evidence, seeking cost-effective ways of working, and operating at scale. We seek individuals who take an entrepreneurial approach, enjoy tackling hard problems, and iterate to achieve the best solutions – and know that people with these skills come from many professional backgrounds.

If our vision and approach excite you as much as it does us, we invite you to join us.