(Associate) Director, Expansion & Partnerships, AI Access Initiative (EAII)

Evidence Action; New Delhi; Sur place; INR 4 200 000 - 6 800 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Evidence Action's 2AI Advisors partnership in India seeks an Associate Director or Director of Expansion & Partnerships to own expansion end to end. Based in India, you’ll report to the VP, Agriculture and lead a team including at least one senior manager while collaborating with the India country team to scope and grow programs.

You will drive market selection, stand up new offices, establish staff with the right skills, and build relationships with governments, telcos, and academic partners to

Responsabilités

• Identify new markets for forecast delivery: In conjunction with the VP, Agriculture, develop the criteria for market selection and prioritize countries to expand into.
• Stand up new markets: Once a new market is confirmed, support the set-up of offices and the hiring of high-quality staff with the requisite skills to implement large-scale forecast delivery.
• Oversee development of forecasts for new regions: Collaborate with academics to ensure forecasts are developed, tested, and ready to disseminate in new countries. This could include hiring and managing post-doctoral students to support in model benchmarking or dataset support.
• Lead telco partnerships: Identify target telcos and lead engagement, negotiation, and relationship management to set up sustainable telco-based dissemination systems.
• Hire and manage in-country scoping support: Where staff on the ground are needed to determine whether there is an opportunity in a new market, hire and oversee them, for example short-term consultants.
• Build and maintain government relationships: Create new and nurture existing relationships with the government bodies needed to operate and disseminate forecasts in a new market, including agriculture departments and meteorological agencies.
• Partner with stakeholders: Create new and nurture existing relationships with academic instituti

Description du poste

This position is with EAII Advisors, Evidence Action's technical partner in India. About EAII EAII Advisors, Evidence Action's technical partner in India, supports state governments in delivering evidence-based public health programs, including safe drinking water initiatives and school and Anganwadi-based National Deworming Day and iron and folic acid supplementation. Operating across 10 states, EAII Advisors provides technical assistance to ministries of health, education, water, and women and child development, reducing health burdens in impoverished communities and improving the long-term wellbeing of children and families. For more information, read about our work here: About Evidence Action and EAII About The AI Access Initiative (2AI) We're at an inflection point in artificial intelligence - presenting both tremendous potential opportunity and risk for people in developing countries. AI capabilities are improving on a timescale measured in months, while development systems often move on timescales measured in decades. Much of the technology needed for positive impact exists today, but few organizations exist to bridge research, deployment, and scaled implementation: we must act now to ensure AI's benefits reach people in poverty in LMICs. Incubated at Evidence Action, we're scaling The AI Access Initiative, an organization focused on scaling AI-enabled 'big bets' to benefit tens or hundreds of millions of people in poverty in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We operate at the intersection of global development actors, top AI labs, and leading researchers to drive meaningful access to AI-enabled programs. Given the scale of opportunity, we expect our portfolio to expand substantially, but to start, we're scaling two programs focused on AI in Agriculture and AI in Health. We are led by former Evidence Action CEO Kanika Bahl, a founding member of Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, and advised by Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer; Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic; and Kent Walker, President, Global Affairs for Alphabet and Google. This work builds on Evidence Action's track record reaching 530M+ people with cost-effective, evidence-based programs across 9 countries in Africa and Asia, with a focus on last-mile delivery.

The Role 2AI is building fast.

We have a founding team, two live program portfolios, and a pipeline of opportunities that will drive significant expansion. The programs we are running have credible pathways to 100s of millions of people. While incubated at Evidence Action, we plan to spin out in Q4 '26. Our Agriculture portfolio is scaling AI-enabled weather forecasting services to reach tens of millions of smallholder farmers, in close partnership with state and national governments in India. The next phase is to expand this work: deciding which countries we move into next and building what it takes to operate there. We are seeking a rigorous, high-ownership Associate Director or Director, Expansion & Partnerships to own that expansion end to end, from market selection and government and telco partnerships through to standing up offices and teams in new markets. This role is based in India and sits on 2AI's global team, reporting into the VP, Agriculture. It includes people leadership, managing at least one senior manager across the program. You will work closely with our India country team and other in-country team members to scope and expand programming.

You Will:

• Identify new markets for forecast delivery: In conjunction with the VP, Agriculture, develop the criteria for market selection and prioritize countries to expand into.
• Stand up new markets: Once a new market is confirmed, support the set-up of offices and the hiring of high-quality staff with the requisite skills to implement large-scale forecast delivery.
• Oversee development of forecasts for new regions: Collaborate with academics to ensure forecasts are developed, tested, and ready to disseminate in new countries. This could include hiring and managing post-doctoral students to support in model benchmarking or dataset support.
• Lead telco partnerships: Identify target telcos and lead engagement, negotiation, and relationship management to set up sustainable telco-based dissemination systems.
• Hire and manage in-country scoping support: Where staff on the ground are needed to determine whether there is an opportunity in a new market, hire and oversee them, for example short-term consultants.
• Build and maintain government relationships: Create new and nurture existing relationships with the government bodies needed to operate and disseminate forecasts in a new market, including agriculture departments and meteorological agencies.
• Partner with stakeholders: Create new and nurture existing relationships with academic instituti