State Safe Water Manager
Evidence Action, India
Job Description
Evidence Action- India Program
Position Overview
Job Title: State Safe Water Manager, India Safe Water Project
Employment Status: Full Time
Position Locations: Madhya Pradesh
Number of Position: One
Level: 5
Last date for submission of applications:
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 with deworming medications, partnering with governments to launch, scale, and sustain mass school-based deworming programs, including in India. Meanwhile, Dispensers for Safe Water 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. These serve as just two examples of the work Evidence Action is undertaking.
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, intending to double 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 9 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.
In India, Evidence Action’s technical partner EAII Advisors provides technical assistance to select state government’s ministries of health, education, and women and child development to implement the school and Anganwadi based National Deworming Day program and Iron and Folic Acid (IFA) supplementation program to improve children’s health, education, and long-term development. In the long term EAII Advisors aims to expand to provide technical support to more state governments and on other public health, water, amp; nutrition issues too.
The India program invites applications for the position of State Safe Water Manager (SSWM) to be based in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
About the India Safe Water Expansion Team
Our flagship Dispensers for Safe Water (DSW) provides safe water to over 4 million people across rural Uganda, Malawi, and Kenya, and is on track to expand its reach to over 9 million people by 2024. Recent evidence highlights that water treatment may be among the most cost-effective interventions available to save young children's lives, reducing all-cause child mortality by about 25%. The dispensers program - based on research for Nobel-winning economists - utilizes an innovative and human-centric design to deliver clean water at the source in rural settings, achieving usage rates which are 5x that of comparable interventions. We are currently incubating a next generation technology, in-line chlorination (ILC) that targets peri-urban communities.
In addition to the above programs, Evidence Action has recently begun leading safe water work in India in collaboration with national and state government agencies. We will be overseeing the operation of a number of promising water chlorination technologies across three Indian states. The project is currently in the small-scale pilot phase, after which we plan to expand to at-scale implementation across the three states.
The pilot will focus on establishing greater understanding of operational considerations regarding water chlorination in various Indian contexts that governments can rely upon during their scale-up process. Post-pilot recommendations will include an analysis of device performance and applicability across various factors such as water infrastructure requirements, maintenance required, electricity requirements, level of expertise required to operate, and more. Following the pilot, findings and recommendations will be provided to national and state departments of water for incorporation into policy, water treatment guidelines, procurement processes, and implementation. The post-pilot recommendations will inform which devices are taken to scale in the three Indian states, and what implementation and operational models will be adopted.
About the position:
The State Safe Water Manager (SSWM) will be responsible for overseeing and implementing the Safe Water program within their respective State. Reporting to the National Program Operations