Job Description
About the Deworm The World team
Evidence Action’s 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. Our program has been selected by GiveWell nine years in a row as one of their Top Charities worldwide.
The Deworm the World team is seeking a highly motivated, financially savvy, and well organized individual who is passionate about international development. This dynamic role works across program, finance, and operation teams to help ensure strong systems are in place to manage financial resources and to support efficient program operations at scale.
Key Responsibilities:
Manage program financials and relevant systems:
- Review all monthly expenditure reports in collaboration with country teams to ensure accuracy.
- Liaise with the finance department on the development of financial reports and ensure the needs of the program are reflected.
- Lead monthly Budget Monitoring Report conversations with relevant Country Team members on budget variances.
- Generate quarterly Salesforce reports to track upcoming deadlines, deliverables and payments including preparing invoices
Maintain up to date financial analyses to:
- Compile initial costing input for CE Team’s costing analysis.
- Track budget versus actuals, incoming funds, and commitments, and grant balance transfers
- Inform program expansion and areas for cost savings.
- Manage and maintain monthly Financial Dashboard with variance comments on programmatic budget versus actuals.
- Prepare initial inputs for donor reporting and provide ad-hoc research to support implementation of DtWI strategy.
Support donor and programmatic budgeting activities:
- Lead initial collection and review of all budget inputs to ensure all costs are correctly integrated.
- Ensure programmatic assumptions are documented for retention.
- Develop, maintain and track budget timelines for all reviews.
- Oversee process flow and timelines for donor reports, agreement development, proposals, sub-contracts.
- Collaborate with the grants department to ensure the program is in compliance with all active agreements.
Operations:
- Serve as point of contact with the finance and administration department on matters related to program operations.
- Support knowledge sharing on program finance and budgeting topics and stay up to date on developments in the NTD community.
- Document operations systems and processes.
- Develop and track procurement timelines and provide programmatic input during the development of contracts and subcontracts.
Location
This position is located in the Washington D.C. office.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree with 3-5 years’ of relevant work experience OR Master’s degree with 1-2 years’ of relevant work experience.
- Demonstrated strong financial analytics and critical thinking skills.
- High level of computer literacy; mastery in Microsoft Excel.
- Quick learner and problem solver who can grasp program and financial information, and identify and act on opportunities for improvement.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Strong written and verbal communicator.
- Self-directed/self-motivating personality, able to manage multiple competing deadlines and priorities with minimal supervision.
- Flexibility and willingness to work on other relevant projects, as needed.
- Passion for Evidence Action’s core values, mission, and programs.
- Experience working internationally or with internally diverse teams.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
- Sense of humor.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Relevant work experience preferably in business, finance, economics or other related field.
- Experience working in an international non-profit.
About the Organization
About Evidence Action
Evidence Action aims to be a world leader in scaling evidence-based and cost-effective programs to reduce the burden of poverty for hundreds of millions of people in the poorest places. Last year Deworm the World reached 280 million people children with deworming medications, partnering with governments to launch, scale, and sustain mass school-based deworming programs. Meanwhile, Dispensers for Safe Water (DSW) provided 4M people across rural Africa with clean water, saving thousands of young lives. The approach relies on an innovative and human-centric design to deliver clean water at the source.
In addition to running these scaled programs, Evidence Action leverages its unique Accelerator to develop the next generation of programs. These programs are rigorously tested to ensure exceptional scale, cost-effectiveness, and clear evidence of impact. In 2019 we launched an ambitious new strategy, with the goal of doubling our impact over the next five years, with much of that impact coming from new programs identified and scaled through the Accelerator.
Evidence Action has a presence across 10 countries, with major offices in Nairobi, Kenya; Delhi, India; and Washington, D.C. Evidence Action’s programs have been recognized by GiveWell, the Skoll Foundation, the Life You Can Save, Giving What We Can, and covered in the Economist, NPR, and the New York Times.
