Investment Manager

Reports to: Investment Director – Portfolio

Contract: Permanent, Full Time

Location: Hybrid / London, EC4A and homeworking

The opportunity:

We are hiring a new investment manager to help us deliver key portfolio activities from performance management of portfolio investments through to generating portfolio insights and optimising the use of our capital. This is a varied role working as part of the team delivering our impact investment management activities across our new and portfolio investments and is a great chance for someone with some experience as an Investment Associate or similar to step into an Investment Manager role.

This is an exciting time to join Better Society Capital as we refresh our strategy for 2026-30, building on what we have learnt since we started our impact investing journey in 2012. Our team comes from a wide range of backgrounds and is driven by transforming the way mainstream financial markets help deliver deep and lasting impact on people in the UK.

We have a strong commitment to our team’s learning and development; this is therefore a unique opportunity to accelerate your career in social impact investing through Better Society Capital’s Development Programme for Investment Managers. This is made up of stretching on-the-job activities, in-house training, observing our investment committee, and external training and qualification opportunities. Whilst playing a key role as part of a dynamic and supportive team, you will develop your impact investment management skills, knowledge of social issues, and your strategic and design thinking in order to help solve some of the UK’s most entrenched social issues.

If you are someone who shares our passion to improve people’s lives and who is enthusiastic about designing and developing creative solutions to complex problems, we would love to hear from you.

What you will do:

Support the delivery of performance management in our portfolio, including:

• Support the delivery of our underperformance management, including helping to maintain our early warning tracker and watchlist.
• Support on specific special situations as needed.
• Support performance management for select portfolio deals from onboarding to exit.

Support our approach to capital optimisation, including:

• Supporting our 5-year strategic asset allocation exercise and annual tactical allocation process.
• Supporting the delivery of allocation meetings that consider each new deal’s contribution to the portfolio from an allocation and liquidity perspective.
• Support active pipeline management across all investment sub-strategies.

Support our overarching relationship management approach with our portfolio, including:

• Manage the embedding and ongoing maintenance of engagement plans across the portfolio working with deal leads and sub-portfolio leads, and considering the sum of our engagement investor contribution at a portfolio level.
• Manage the annual update to the portfolio information pack and survey to portfolio fund managers.

Support portfolio insights and investment-related reporting, including:

• Support on key areas of reporting to our governance bodies, such as the Board and Investment Committee.
• Support the generation of portfolio insights and learning, including the use of technology, to enable quality decision making and effective performance management.

Help to build a world-class social impact investment approach and process, including:

• Support, and lead on aspects, of the effective delivery of our annual investment calendar.
• Support the effective, consistent, and quality end-to-end investment process across all investment activity. This may include working on new investments over time.

Actively contribute to the effective delivery of our team and approach, including:

• Contribute to team- and organisation-wide initiatives that help us deliver our mission such as working groups to improve our approach on key areas.

What you will bring:

Skills, Abilities and Attributes

• Structured thinker – able to deal with complexity and uncertainty
• Innovative, creative and strategic approach to problem-solving
• Solves problems with multiple stakeholders in an open and empathetic way
• Collegial team player – flexible and willing to work with and contribute to a team
• Self-starter – able to work under own initiative and run with new opportunities
• Relationship management – excellent interpersonal skills and able to build relationships at all levels
• A confident and effective communicator when writing and speaking
• Hunger for continued learning and development, including developing others

Embody Better Society Capital core values:

• Purposeful – We are passionate and energetic in our work to bring about our long-term vision of a thriving social investment market that enables positive social impact.
• Pioneering Spirit – We give our team the autonomy and flexibility to be entrepreneurial and creative. We have the courage to push boundaries and a restless drive for change.
• Openness – We listen, learn, experiment and collaborate. And we are adaptive and flexible in responding to what we learn.
• Rigorous – We take a rigorous approach in all we do. We expect the highest standards and continually strive for excellence.
• Respectful – We are genuine in both our approach and aspiration. We value each member of our team and our partners for what they bring.

Experience:

• A passion and demonstrable commitment to improving lives in the UK
• Experience of undertaking detailed analysis, particularly financial analysis
• Work experience that faces the financial, social or public sector
• Proven relationship building and influencing skills
• Work experience in impact investing
• Some experience of performance managing portfolio investment
• Knowledge of investing in real estate, venture, credit, renewables or outcome contracts

Other terms:

Location : We are a UK-based business with an office in the Chancery Lane area of London, accessible to a number of public transport links. Colleagues typically spend 40% – 60% of their working hours in the office, and the remainder from home. We hope that this working pattern encourages Better Society Capital employees to achieve a healthy balance between work and personal life, as we adapt to the needs of our diverse workforce.

Right to Work: Candidates must have existing right to work in the UK for this role.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion : Better Society Capital is committed to being a diverse organisation that is truly representative of the communities we serve. We therefore welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, particularly those under-represented in the social impact investment sector (e.g. people from LGBTQIA+; racialised; disabled; under-served communities).

We are an equal opportunities employer with an inclusive environment where all employees can contribute to their fullest potential. We want every colleague to be able to deliver their work with dignity, equality, comfort and independence. Our office is fully accessible with step-free access and an open-plan set up. We are open to accommodation requests regarding assistive technologies, accessibility tools, flexible working or any other reasonable adjustments that will make working or visiting here more accessible for you.

How to apply:

Please apply via Applied by 23:59pm on Sunday 16 February 2025 .

Applied is a platform designed to minimise unconscious bias in recruitment. You will be asked some work-based questions which are reviewed anonymously by the hiring panel. Please note, while you will upload your CV, it will not be viewed by panel members at this stage, so we ask that you give full consideration to each answer.

Please note: we screen for answers generated by Chat GPT. To get a 5-star score, we ask that your Applied answers are authentic and reflect your own knowledge, skills and motivations.

As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an initial telephone interview for all candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the job. We are defining a disability in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, as a person who has a physical or mental impairment, and the impairment has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on their ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. You will be asked in your Applied application whether this applies to you. If we receive an exceptionally high volume of applicants, we may not be able to facilitate interviews for everyone.

Interviews

Round 1 interviews will be held approximately w/c 24 February 2025.

Round 2 interviews will be held approximately w/c 03 March 2025.

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