Opportunity Type:

Regular

Summary:

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.

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.

What you’ll do

• Design a rigorous, practical impact measurement framework
• Turn data into insight and accountability
• Build credible evidence of household outcomes
• Communicate findings clearly and support credible reporting
• Use learning to strengthen practice and influence the sector

What you’ll bring

Minimum Requirements

• Master’s degree or equivalent in economics, statistics, evaluation, public policy, or a related discipline with substantive training in quantitative causal research methods.
• At least 8 years of experience in impact measurement and management or monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

Preferred Requirements

• Background with an impact fund, development finance institution, financial service provider, or research organization specializing in microfinance or financial inclusion program evaluation.

Locations:

United States or United Kingdom

Hiring Range:

The actual salary offered for this role will be based on a variety of factors, including location, internal equity and the candidate’s qualifications and professional experience. HFHI offers a competitive, comprehensive benefits package that varies by country and typically includes vacation leave, sick leave, personal days, health insurance options, retirement plan contributions and life insurance. For work locations in the US, the hiring range for this position is:

$84,600.00 USD - $125,850 USD / Annual