Senior Manager, New Program Development

excerpts from the official posting

We are hiring a Senior Manager to lead the development of our next generation of health programs. You will own a set of early-stage interventions and drive each one from a research insight to a program that is proven, fundable, and ready to scale, or to a clear and well-reasoned decision to stop. You bring the rigor…

Main responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of pipeline interventions, end to end. Drive several promising candidate programs through the Accelerator's stage-gate process, and decide what advances…
• Interrogate the evidence with honesty. Assess each intervention's evidence base on the merits, including effect sizes and their quality, external validity, variability…
• Model impact and cost-effectiveness under uncertainty. Partner with the Cost-Effectiveness team to build and pressure-test CEAs, reasoning explicitly about assumptions…
• Design and run decision-relevant learning in close collaboration with our MLE team. Scope and execute lean, rigorous field activities such as scoping, formative…

Profile

• You have a bachelors degree and 6 - 10 years of experience in quant social science, program management, international development, or global health in a cross-country…
• You read primary research and study design critically, synthesize large and conflicting evidence bases, and form an honest view of what the evidence does and does not…
• You build or rigorously interpret cost-effectiveness, epidemiological, or statistical models, and reason clearly about assumptions, sensitivity, and uncertainty.