Government Relations

• Occasionally represent Evidence Action and EAII Advisors Private Limited in engagements with central and state Jal Jeevan Mission representatives, state departments of water, NGO partners, suppliers, manufacturers, and others;
• Draft talking points as needed for India Safe Water senior leadership for key government engagements

Systems Development & Maintenance

• Review programmatic systems to ensure they are replicable, scalable, and prepared for the next stage of growth ultimately providing. recommendations to program team leadership. Projects may include scaling models, cross-cutting team support, procurement plans, community engagement plans, and others.
• Support a centralized workflow – including work planning, collecting modeling inputs, and project coordination - across the Cost Effectiveness and India Safe Water teams.

Program Support

• Support the Manager PMU in ensuring the smooth functioning of the day-to-day operations of program and strategic initiatives;
• Take feedbacks from Manager PMU and complete the actionable.
• Develop standardized materials and processes for onboarding and training new hires.
• Ensure standardization of systems and processes, e.g. performance management, data collection and management, working closely with India Safe Water and EAII Team.
• Develop internal team materials as needed, e.g. PPTs to give updates to program senior leadership.
• Manage communications and coordination with other Evidence Action teams within India and globally, ensuring correct stakeholders are involved at the appropriate level for various workstreams.
• Coordinate communications with Central and State JJM representatives, external partners and internal team members Examples include: draft emails or memos to provide updates to partners, attending and taking notes during meetings to capture follow-up items, drafting agendas for meetings, etc.
• Support communication with established and potential funders, including the development of donor materials, preparation of talking points for meetings, etc.
• Oversee internal knowledge and information management systems and processes.

Flex Capacity

• This position will serve as flex capacity across topics and requirements as the India Safe Water program undergoes massive scale and new requirements may arise to include strategic planning, program transition, learning management, procurement, contracting, monitoring, learning, & evaluation, and others.

• Strong project management and organizational skills; proven ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously requiring inputs from various stakeholders.
• Excellent spoken and written English.
• Ability to synthesize information clearly and draft high-quality written documents keeping to tight deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to engage with internal and external stakeholders within India and globally.
• Proactively communicate relevant progress updates and bottlenecks requiring attention or support from leadership
• Ability to develop recommendations based on qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Able to work within a matrixed, complex organizational structure.
• Passion for the mission and values of Evidence Action and for creating value in international development.
• Prepared to travel to India to support government engagements, programs, and other requirements as necessary, up to 20% international travel.
• Experience of technical and advisory services to Governments or working with Governments on the development sector (preferably Water/WASH sector) at any level will be a bonus.