Senior Evidence to Scale Manager - J-PAL Global

Senior Evidence to Scale Manager - J-PAL Global

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anchored by a network of more than 1,100 top researchers at universities around the world, J-PAL conducts innovative research and builds powerful partnerships to solve the world’s greatest challenges. J-PAL was launched at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2003 and is directed by Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo , along with Ben Olken .

It has over 500 research, policy, scale, training, and operations staff across Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, Middle East, North America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. For more information visit povertyactionlab.org

Position overview

J-PAL Global’s Evidence to Scale (E2S) vertical plays a key role in supporting the J-PAL network and our partners in this process of translating rigorous evidence into policy and practice  date, over 850 million people have been reached by programs or policies that have been informed by evaluations by J-PAL affiliated researchers.

As a key member of the E2S vertical, the Senior E2S Manager will work closely with J-PAL Global leadership to support the J-PAL network (affiliated and invited researchers) and partners (NGOs, governments, and funders) in the process of translating rigorous evidence into policy and practice at scale, to reach even more people.

E2S has multiple ways to support the scale up of evidence-informed programs to reduce poverty, and we expect the Senior Manager will work with E2S to contribute to continued “evidence to policy” innovation. Several current activities that the Senior E2S Manager will take on include:

• Collaborating with J-PAL’s Regional Offices to strategize and build teams to support the scale up of particular programs.
  • Recent examples in India include working with ASPIRE (a coalition hosted by J-PAL South Asia) to create frameworks to identify potential programs to scale, support the Ministry of Rural Development and partners to adapt and scale the graduation approach , and working in two Indian states to scale a gender equity curriculum across public schools, reaching over three million students per year.
  • Working with J-PAL Africa to support piloting and scaling access to safe water in multiple countries in Africa.
  • Supporting J-PAL LAC to catalyze the adoption of Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs across Latin America.
• Developing implementation toolkits to help promote the piloting and scaling of particular evidence-informed programs with governments, NGOs, and funders, such as the Every Child Counts toolkit , launched in November 2025.
• Working closely with leading foundations and evidence-aligned donors, such as Give Well , Founders Pledge , and the Livelihood Impact Fund , to identify, assess, secure funding for, and support the scale up of impactful programs and partnerships.

The Senior E2S Manager will bring exceptional experience directly scaling – or supporting others (such as governments) to scale – evidence-based social policies and programs in low- or middle-income country contexts. And you’ll be motivated to stay abreast of the latest thinking on both the art and science of scaling and embedded evidence partnerships with governments, to bring the best of that thinking to J-PAL, and to share what J-PAL is learning about scaling and systems change with the broader community.

You’ll receive exceptional coaching from senior E2S leadership and have the opportunity to engage with J-PAL’s dynamic network of researchers, regional offices, and policymaker and practitioner partners around the world.

The Senior Evidence to Scale Manager role represents an exciting opportunity to shape the future of this work at J-PAL. We are looking for candidates who can commit to the role for at least three years and ideally would be investing in J-PAL for the medium-to-long term.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

The primary responsibilities of the Senior E2S Manager include co-developing and executing E2S’s strategy,…