Manager, Impact Measurement and Management (IMM)/Monitoring, Evaluation, Account

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Habitat for Humanity International’s strategy calls for an expanded role in market approaches to solving the housing crisis. A central element of that strategy is improving access to affordable housing finance so that low-income households can build or improve adequate housing. This work engages the housing finance ecosystem — investors, policymakers, and financial service providers — to expand products and services that meet low-income families’ housing needs.

The MicroBuild Initiative is the successor to the MicroBuild Fund, which operated from 2012 to 2025. Habitat for Humanity is sponsor, investor, and a general partner in the Fund, and through the Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter (TCIS) operates the Impact and Innovation Hub that will provide technical assistance that works directly with financial service providers to strengthen their ability to originate and manage housing finance, alongside other services to strengthen the Fund’s impact and catalyze broader market systems transformation. Symbiotics, a Geneva-based impact investment firm specializing in financial inclusion, is the fund manager. The MicroBuild Initiative broadens the scope beyond microfinance to a wider range of financial products and institution types.

The Manager leads impact measurement and management (IMM) and Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning for the MicroBuild Initiative. The position will co-design and execute the impact measurement system for the MicroBuild Initiative and is responsible for establishing what the Initiative can credibly claim about outputs, outcomes and impacts, including at the household level. Where monitoring data cannot support an outcome claim, this role designs and commissions the external research that can. Management of environmental, social, and governance risks is the responsibility of the fund manager; this role requires the working knowledge of European sustainable finance frameworks needed to interpret, scrutinize, and report on that work, but does not carry it out.

The position coordinates closely with the Managing Director of the Initiative’s Impact and Innovation hub, ensuring that indicator data aggregates consistently into TCIS MEARL platforms and that learning from the Initiative informs the portfolio and the wider housing finance market. This person will also need to coordinate and share information with fund manager’s impact team. This is an individual contributor role with responsibility for the Initiative’s impact research and evaluation budget.Key Responsibilities:
Manager, Impact Measurement and Management (IMM)/Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, Research, and Learning (MEARL)

Habitat for Humanity International | Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter

Help shape the evidence behind more inclusive housing finance.
How can investment in housing finance translate into meaningful improvements in people’s lives—and how do we know?
Habitat for Humanity International is seeking a Manager, IMM/MEARL to help answer these questions for the MicroBuild Initiative. You will design and lead an impact measurement system that connects investment and technical assistance to credible evidence of institutional change, household outcomes, and broader transformation in housing finance markets.
This is an opportunity to shape how the Initiative measures success, strengthen the evidence behind its decisions, and turn complex findings into clear insights for investors, donors, partners, and the wider housing finance sector.

About the MicroBuild Initiative
Habitat’s strategy calls for an expanded role in market approaches to solving the housing crisis. Central to this work is improving access to affordable housing finance so that low-income households can build or improve adequate housing. We engage investors, policymakers, and financial service providers to expand products and services that meet families’ housing needs.
The MicroBuild Initiative succeeds the MicroBuild Fund, which operated from 2012 to 2025, and broadens its focus beyond microfinance to a wider range of financial products and institution types. Habitat serves as sponsor, investor, and a general partner in the Fund. Through the Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter (TCIS), Habitat operates the Initiative’s Impact and Innovation Hub, providing technical assistance to strengthen financial service providers’ ability to originate and manage housing finance, deepen the Fund’s impact, and catalyze broader market systems transformation.
Symbiotics, a Geneva-based impact investment firm specializing in financial inclusion, serves as fund manager.

Your role
You will co-design and execute the Initiative’s impact measurement system, establishing what it can credibly claim about outputs, outcomes, and impacts—including at the household level. Where monitoring data cannot support an outcome claim, you will design and commission the independent research needed to build that evidence.

Working closely with the Managing Director of the Impact and Innovation Hub and the fund manager’s impact team, you will ensure that the Initiative’s indicator data aggregates consistently into TCIS MEARL platforms and that its learning informs the broader portfolio and housing finance market.
This is an individual contributor role with responsibility for the Initiative’s impact research and evaluation budget. The fund manager is responsible for managing environmental, social, and governance risks. Your role requires sufficient knowledge of European sustainable finance frameworks to interpret, scrutinize, and report on that work.

What you’ll do

Design a rigorous, practical impact measurement framework
●Develop the Initiative’s IMM/MEARL plan, including its theory of change, impact thesis and objectives, indicators and definitions, data collection methods and instruments, roles and responsibilities, and research and evaluation strategy.
●Lead the development of low-income…