Investor Community Manager, Fixed Income Events (12-month FTC)

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Overview

As the Fixed Income Investor Community Manager, you will play a central role in building, growing, and engaging the Fixed Income Investor Network (FIIN) community across the structured finance and private credit markets. You will be responsible for developing strong relationships with investors and key market participants, helping to shape FIIN’s initiatives and task forces through ongoing dialogue, market insight, and community leadership. This is a highly outward-facing role suited to someone who enjoys meeting people, building trust over time, and bringing communities together around shared interests and objectives. Your curiosity, relationship-building skills, and genuine interest in the industry will be critical as you connect investors with one another, facilitate meaningful discussions, and ensure FIIN remains closely aligned with the priorities of its membership.

About FIIN

The Fixed Income Investor Network (FIIN) is a non-profit trade association of over 1,000 members representing more than 475 investment management firms. FIIN’s mission is to support the development and enhancement of structured finance markets through three core pillars: investor education, networking, and critical market discussions and partners with the fixed income events team bringing investors to their flagship events as part of FT live. Through task forces, working groups, and member-led initiatives, FIIN convenes senior buy-side participants to share knowledge, advocate on key issues, and promote a well-functioning structured finance marketplace.

What does the role involve?

This is a varied role committed to managing investor engagement and community development across FIIN, while working closely with FIIN’s board and leadership. The role combines community building, relationship management, event development, content creation, and strategic partner engagement.

• Community Building & Investor Engagement
  • Own and manage relationships with investors across structured finance and private credit, maintaining regular direct engagement through calls, meetings, and in-person interactions.
  • Develop and expand the FIIN community by building relationships with investors across new firm types, geographies, and asset class focus areas not yet well represented within the membership.
  • Foster meaningful connections between members, helping to strengthen engagement and participation across the FIIN community.
  • Gather and synthesise market intelligence from investor conversations, sharing insights internally to inform FIIN’s strategic priorities, task force programming, and content agenda.
  • Act as a trusted point of contact for members, developing a deep understanding of their investment focus, strategic priorities, and areas of interest.
  • Provide regular structured updates to the FT Live Events (FIE) team on key investor market trends, sentiment, and developments relevant to event programming and strategy.
• Building and Running the FIIN Investor Community
  • Work directly with the FIIN Board to develop and drive FIIN’s strategic objectives.
  • Plan, organise, and host FIIN Board and Executive Committee meetings, ensuring effective preparation, coordination, and follow-through on key actions and decisions.
  • Lead the delivery of FIIN’s member engagement programme, ensuring regular opportunities for networking, knowledge sharing, and collaboration.
  • Plan and host investor networking events in London and other key markets.
  • Chair monthly FIIN asset-focused task force calls across CLOs, RMBS, Consumer ABS, ESG, Infrastructure, and CRE/CMBS.
  • Develop the programming of investor-led elements at relevant FIE conferences, including investor lunches, closed-door boardroom discussions, and the Fixed Income Investor Forum.
  • Create approximately five webinars per year offering investor insight to be shared with the FIIN membership and broader community.
  • Develop relevant investor and market content for distribution to the FIIN community, including thought leadership pieces, white papers, and member updates.
• Membership Growth and Retention
  • Support FIIN’s membership recruitment and retention efforts by identifying, engaging, and nurturing relationships with prospective member firms.
  • Help ensure members derive ongoing value from participation in the network, supporting long-term engagement and retention.
  • Maintain clear records of key relationships and interactions to support continuity, institutional knowledge, and long-term community development.
  • Work collaboratively with the wider FIIN team to ensure communications, programming, and initiatives reflect genuine member priorities and market needs.

What do we need from you?

What matters most is your mentality, core skills, and what you naturally enjoy. We are looking for someone who is:

• Someone who consistently fosters strong community connections. You genuinely enjoy bringing people together, creating connections, and fostering engagement among groups with shared interests. You are energised by building networks and helping communities thrive.
• A people-focused relationship builder. You enjoy meeting new people, building rapport, and maintaining long-term professional relationships. You are curious, engaged, and comfortable initiating conversations.
• Comfortable engaging with senior market participants. You can engage professionally and credibly with senior investors and industry leaders in working groups, webinars, and networking settings, and are comfortable taking a visible role in those forums.
• Collaborative and team-oriented. You work well within a small team, share insights openly, and understand how your market-facing role supports FIIN’s broader mission.
• Commercially curious and strategically minded. You are interested in how markets work and enjoy identifying themes and emerging trends that can inform community development, member engagement, and content strategy.
• Organised and meticulous. You are comfortable tracking interactions, maintaining accurate records, and managing follow-ups across relationships, governance meetings, and community initiatives.
• Self-motivated and proactive. You are comfortable taking ownership of relationships, finding opportunities to strengthen engagement, and helping shape the future development of the FIIN community.

What’s in it for You?

Our benefits vary by location but we are committed to providing best-in-class perks across all our offices. We currently operate a hybrid model which requires staff to work onsite 50% of the time.

Accessibility

We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions, email talent@ft.com and a member of our team will be happy to help.