Senior Manager, New Program Development
HybridAbuja, FCT, Nigeria
Job Summary
Own a portfolio of pipeline interventions, driving several candidates through the Accelerator's stage-gate process to decide what advances, reshapes, or exits. Interrogate evidence bases on effect sizes, quality, and external validity, then model impact and cost-effectiveness under uncertainty with the Cost-Effectiveness team. Design and run decision-relevant learning activities, including scoping, formative research, and pilots, to unblock go/no-go decisions. Craft compelling, evidence-grounded investment cases while aligning researchers, implementers, governments, and donors. Lead conversations with study authors and funders to source new ideas, and collaborate with Growth and Country Teams to build resourcing and partnerships. Strengthen the Accelerator's methods and mentor analysts. Report to the Accelerator Director with a dotted line to the West Africa Regional Lead. This preferred base is in Abuja, Nigeria, with up to 25% international travel.
Required Qualifications
- bachelors degree
- 6 - 10 years of experience in quant social science, program management, international development, or global health in a cross-country setting
- read primary research and study design critically
- synthesize large and conflicting evidence bases
- form an honest view of what the evidence does and does not support
- build or rigorously interpret cost-effectiveness, epidemiological, or statistical models
- reason clearly about assumptions, sensitivity, and uncertainty
- design lean learning activities that target the uncertainty actually blocking a decision
- deliver them on a timeline
- move things forward amid uncertainty, building, prototyping, and unblocking rather than waiting for perfect information
- build trust and align both internal teams and external partners (researchers, implementers, government, and donors) across cultures and sectors toward a shared path
- make complex technical findings clear and decision-useful for non-technical audiences, in writing and live
- manage several workstreams at once
- sequence sharply
- make defensible calls about where to spend scarce time
- experience working in an international setting
- experience working with diverse teams
- look for the reasons your favorite idea might be wrong
- welcome the same scrutiny of your own work
- This preferred base for this role is in our offices in Abuja, Nigeria
- This role would include up to 25% of international travel
- Hybrid working arrangements apply
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