Associate, Operational Expansion at Evidence Action

Job purpose

The Operational Expansion team’s mandate is to enable Evidence Action to scale impactful programs to new geographies, coordinating between Country- and Regional-level operations teams, Program teams and members of organizational leadership to ensure informed decision making, smooth transitions and timely execution of expansion activities. The Associate, Operational Expansion will focus primarily on the coordination of these activities, both within and outside of the team, ensuring that critical actions are tracked and executed. They will report directly to the Senior Manager, Operational Expansion.

Duties and responsibilities

• Coordinate between the Operational Expansion team and other stakeholders. For example, ownership of key communications channels, leading working groups and/or creating and maintaining work plans and dashboards
• Maintain new market entry process documents and tools, creating a toolbox in order to streamline future expansion projects
• Conduct due diligence and RFP processes for sourcing external advisors and consultants, then help manage the relationships as needed
• Conduct due diligence desk research to identify opportunities, risks and courses of action related to operations (legal, financial, staffing, etc) in proposed new expansion geographies
• As required, provide backstop support to HR, finance, ops and IT teams in developing and implementing country-specific policies, processes, and systems. Occasional international travel may be required to support these activities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Project management or any related field.
• 1-3 years of Project management experience.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple competing tasks.
• Willingness to travel up to 10% time in support of expansion activities.
• Creates polished, intuitive written documents and project tools.
• Demonstrated experience working with diverse, cross-functional teams.
• Strong alignment with core values of Evidence Action.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous consulting experience is a plus
• Professional experience in multiple countries within the Africa region
• PMP or other project management certification