Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Manager

Job Mission

The Senior Monitoring & Evaluation Manager will lead the design, rollout, and continuous improvement of Terraformation’s M&E framework across all projects and partners. This person will drive the harmonization of indicators and monitoring systems, strengthen internal and partner M&E capacity, and ensure that data and evidence drive adaptive management, external reporting, and learning.

This is a cross-functional role that bridges Operations, Project Management, Product (Terraware), and Communications, ensuring our restoration, carbon, and livelihood outcomes are measurable, verifiable, and clearly communicated.

Salary Range: $100,000 - $120,000, plus equity (depending on location and experience)

Location: Remote; US or EMEA

Responsibilities

• Refine and implement a coherent, portfolio-wide M&E framework with consistent indicators, definitions, and templates.
• Maintain and improve standard M&E tools (e.g., M&E Plans, ToC/logframe templates) and ensure alignment with organizational adaptive management cycles.
• Work with Product and Project teams to integrate core indicators and tracking systems (e.g., IPTT) into Terraware.

• Provide hands-on support to design and operationalize project-level M&E plans, including baselines and targets.
• Ensure project workplans, budgets, and Theories of Change align with Terraformation’s portfolio goals.
• Build partner and internal team capacity through training, coaching, and practical M&E guidance.

• Guide projects on data collection, verification, and analysis to ensure accuracy and usability for decision-making.
• Feed evidence into quarterly reviews and adaptive management processes.
• Collaborate with Finance, Grants, and Communications to ensure credible M&E data supports funder reporting and impact storytelling.

• Minimum 10+ years of experience designing and implementing M&E systems for complex, multi-country development or environmental programs.
• Strong expertise in results-based management (RBM) principles, including Theory of Change design, logframe development, and indicator tracking.
• Demonstrated ability to design and operationalize portfolio-wide M&E frameworks that integrate with adaptive management or organizational learning systems.
• Proven facilitation and capacity-building skills, with experience in training and supporting diverse teams and local partners.
• Strong written, analytical, communication, and collaboration abilities – able to distill technical data into actionable insights for multiple audiences.
• Familiarity with carbon projects, ecosystem restoration, or environmental MRV is highly desirable.

About Terraformation

Terraformation is committed to addressing climate change through the power of native forest restoration. Our portfolio of high-quality projects is designed to restore forests that will remove high quantities of carbon, renew ecosystems, enhance biodiversity, and create sustainable long-term community income and benefits. Our project teams have planted over one million biodiverse and native trees, stored 131 million seeds, supported 19 forestry projects, and created over 700 jobs through reforestation efforts worldwide. 

Our innovative approach not only equips local forestry teams with training, technology, and access to capital, but also empowers businesses to be a part of the solution to climate change. By investing in our projects, businesses can directly address climate change, offset carbon emissions, meet net zero commitments, and enhance corporate sustainability initiatives. 

Terraformation’s mission-driven global team, which includes experts in forest science, carbon markets, operations management, and business development, demonstrates how diverse backgrounds drive innovation and create significant impact.

Learn more at terraformation.com

We are an equal-opportunity employer.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where relevant.