Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Specialist

Opportunity Type:

Regular

Summary:

JOB SUMMARY
Habitat for Humanity International seeks a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEAL) Specialist to support and advance the Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter's work with small and growing businesses. The purpose of the Terwilliger Center is and always has been to influence market actors – i.e., private companies, public officials, civil society, consumers, and households – to change attitudes, behaviors, policies, business models, and products and services in ways that lead to scalable affordable housing solutions. This is the essence of the Terwilliger Center's contribution to the HFHI mission of ensuring that everyone has a decent place to live.

The Terwilliger Center supports enterprises expanding innovative and client-responsive services, products and financing so that low-income households can improve their housing more effectively and efficiently. The Terwilliger Center operates in a dynamic environment where projects are often executed using a matrix structure, leveraging cross-functional teams within the center and, at times, across the wider Habitat network to achieve success.

The MEAL Specialist will play a key role in supporting the implementation, learning, and continuous improvement of the Small and Growing Businesses (SGB) Framework, the Terwilliger Center's global approach to identifying, supporting, and learning from enterprises with solutions for affordable housing via direct support and capital mobilization. This position strengthens the systems, evidence, and coordination needed to align global strategy with regional implementation. The role will also contribute to MEAL and learning efforts connected to the Shelter Venture Fund (SVF), the Center's mechanism for deploying investment into housing SGBs, ensuring coherence between the SGB framework and investment-related evidence. The MEAL Specialist will help advance learning, insights, and network engagement that elevate the Center's ability to support SGBs, influence entrepreneurial ecosystems, and inform future program design. Specifically this role designs and implements MEAL systems for impact investment portfolios and SGB programs, ensuring evidence-based decision-making and will contribute to global learning agendas, donor reporting, and impact measurement frameworks aligned with GIIN/IRIS+ standards.

Key Responsibilities:

ESSENTIAL DUTIES 1) Design and implement the MEARL framework for the Terwilliger Center's SGB framework. 
Develop results chains/frameworks for SGB framework including Shelter Venture Fund investments. 
Ensure alignment with global impact measurement standards (IRIS+, SDG indicators). 
Supports SGB team in solving complex challenges, target setting for annual and multi-year projections and puts a rigorous but realistic plan in place to track and monitor against these targets. 

2)Ensure Data Quality and Insight Generation to support the SGB framework and strengthen evidence of uptake. 

Working with global MEARL, geographic MEARL and SGB leads, lead rigorous data collection, validation, and analysis using mixed methods. Lead stakeholder reporting requirements and ensure integrity of reporting. Produce dashboards and learning briefs for internal strategy and external stakeholders. 

3)Learning and Knowledge Management. 

Facilitate learning loops across regions; synthesize cross-portfolio insights. Translate evidence into actionable recommendations for the SGB framework, including investment insights and program design. Promote adaptive management. Use evidence and real-time insights to inform strategic pivots and improve program effectiveness. 

4) Capacity Building and Systems Strengthening. 
Develop and maintain digital data systems (such as CRM, Airtable, PowerBI) for real-time monitoring and data visualization. 
Keep up to date on industry trends and build insights into continuous improvement of MEAL systems. 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Master’s in Monitoring & Evaluation, Development Economics, Statistics, Impact Measurement, or related field. 

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS

Minimum 5 years in MEAL roles, including impact investing or enterprise development contexts. 

Proven ability to design and implement MEAL systems. 

Understanding of IRIS+, SGD and other relevant indicators.

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About Us:

Habitat for Humanity, founded in 1976, is a global, Christian-based nonprofit organization that grew out of an intentionally multi-racial community in rural Georgia. Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat brings together people of all faiths and people of no faith to build homes, communities and hope. Working alongside each other, we help families and individuals build and improve places to call home and achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves. Habitat seeks individuals who have a willingness to affirm these principles and values.

At Habitat for Humanity International, we are compelled by our Koinonia roots to put God’s love for all into action and pursue housing equity and opportunity by bringing all people together to build community and drive impact. We strive to build a culture rooted in learning, accountability and trust, attracting and retaining mission-driven talent reflective of the global communities we serve.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement:

As an equal opportunity employer, we realize our success depends on courageously committing to being a workplace where all staff feel safe, welcome, visible, respected, supported and valued, and building a workforce that reflects a variety of lived experiences, backgrounds and perspectives, in which every person experiences dignity and respect.