Evidence Action
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Director,FinanceandOperations
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“Director, Finance and Operations at Evidence Action. Skills: Finance, Operations, Compliance, Strategy. Establish high-caliber financial systems. Manage grant tracking, reporting calendars, and spend-down requirements”
What You'll Achieve.
Set the strategy, own the outcomes; Serve as the internal expert; Identify, contract, and manage high-quality external partners; Define an organization’s operating system from scratch; Ensure the legal and financial infrastructure of this organization is a platform for impact, not a bottleneck
Industry & Context.
Proactively surface and resolve problems before they escalate
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
8+ years in finance, strategic operations, consulting, nonprofit leadership, startup operations, or related fields, significant experience managing organizational finance and budgeting, Experience sourcing and managing outside counsel, accounting firms, auditors, insurance brokers, and payroll providers, Comfort operating at both strategic and operational levels, written communication able to translate complex financial and legal concepts clearly for board members, program staff, and funders, CPA, JD, or equivalent professional credential, Experience with nonprofit finance, compliance, and 501(c)(3) environments
Nice to Have
nonprofit-specific training or certification (e.g., CGAP, CNAP), Form 990, single audit, charitable solicitation registration, IRS rebuttable presumption, and state-level tax exemptions
What You'll Do.
Establish high-caliber financial systems
Manage grant tracking
and spend-down requirements
Oversee year-end audit
and board-level financial reporting
Run analyses to drive strategic organizational decisions
Build financial models
and organizational forecasts
Drive organizational spinout and setup
and compliance workstreams
and oversee finance and compliance ecosystem
Manage outsourced partners
Ensure institutional controls without unnecessary bureaucracy
Enable international scaling and complex funding structures
Drive high-leverage resource allocation
Build a culture of analytically rigorous budget allocation
Build and own compliance infrastructure
Support governance and board operations
Manage legal affairs & contracting
Negotiate vendor contracts
and partnership arrangements
Ensure IP protections are in place
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with the CEO and leadership team; Work well with a small, fast-moving leadership team
Communication Scope
written communication able to translate complex financial and legal concepts clearly for board members, program staff, and funders
Process & Methodology
Manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
Full Job Description
**About The AI Access Initiative** We're at an inflection point in artificial intelligence – presenting both tremendous potential opportunity and risk for people in developing countries: rather than allowing the poverty gap to expand, low-income countries have an opportunity to leapfrog development milestones with AI-powered innovations. Incubated at Evidence Action, we’re launching 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). We will operate at the intersection of global development actors, top AI labs, and leading researchers to drive meaningful access to the benefits of AI for the 3.5 billion people living in poverty globally. We will create “public good,” open-sourced playbooks, toolkits, and insights that define how to design and launch tractable and impactful AI-enabled programs. 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. We are led by former Evidence Action CEO Kanika Bahl, a founding member of Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust, and advised by Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer; Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic; and Kent Walker, President, Global Affairs for Alphabet and Google. This work builds on Evidence Action’s track record reaching 530M+ people with cost-effective, evidence-based programs across 9 countries in Africa and Asia, with a focus on last-mile delivery. **Our approach** We’re scaling AI-enabled big bets to benefit tens or hundreds of millions of individuals living in poverty. We will focus both on delivering near-term, tractable direct impact and supporting governments to establish an enabling environment for the ‘AI for Good’ ecosystem, including: * Scaling “big bet” AI interventions to impact tens or hundreds of millions, such as delivering AI-enabled forecasts to smallholder farmer
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