Social Investment Manager – Bridges Outcomes

About Bridges Outcomes Partnerships

Bridges Outcomes Partnerships is a mission-driven not-for-profit social enterprise and a subsidiary of Bridges Fund Management, a specialist impact-driven fund manager.

The organization works collaboratively with government, community groups, and specialist partners to design and deliver vital services that support people to improve their lives across diverse sectors including education, wellbeing, housing, employment, and environmental protection.

Over the past decade, Bridges Outcomes Partnerships has demonstrated significant impact through its work on more than 100 outcomes contracts, supporting over 1.4 million people globally and delivering over £200 million in outcomes.

The organization has created more than £1.9 billion of public value in the UK through innovative social outcomes partnerships that emphasize collaborative design, flexible delivery, and clear accountability.

The organization is funded by a group of pioneering social investors including The Office for Civil Society, Better Society Capital, UBS Optimus Foundation, Pilotlight, and Trust for London.

These investors share a commitment to improving lives and changing systems for the better.

Bridges Outcomes Partnerships specializes in addressing complex, interconnected community needs that traditional service provision struggles to tackle.

The organization recognizes that public resources are increasingly stretched, making long-term holistic funding for comprehensive services challenging, and that traditional input-based models often fail to improve community lives and achieve poor value for public money.

With more than fifteen years of experience, Bridges Outcomes Partnerships has positioned itself as a leader in galvanizing outcomes-based approaches across the UK and other high-income countries.

The organization’s work spans project development, partnership coordination, project and delivery management, and project finance.

Bridges Outcomes Partnerships is committed to creating long-term impact through accountability, collaborative design, and flexible delivery while achieving better value for money for outcomes payers.

The organization is focused on growing its direct and systemic impact nationally and internationally.

About this Role

Are you looking for a life mission and a rewarding career where you can help find ways of tackling social and environmental problems in the UK and globally?

Bridges Outcomes Partnerships is seeking enthusiastic and motivated individuals who are intellectually curious and understand the value of how collaborative design, flexible delivery, and clear accountability can contribute to achieving positive social, health, and environmental impact.

There is a strong case for expanding Social Outcomes Partnerships in the UK and other high-income countries.

Needs in communities are increasingly complex and interconnected, with traditional service provision and delivery often struggling to tackle wicked social problems.

There has been an unprecedented rise in referrals to children social care, populations experiencing homelessness, people managing multiple chronic conditions, facing domestic abuse challenges, and many other multi-faceted issues.

Public resources are stretched, making long-term holistic funding for comprehensive services challenging.

Traditional input-based models often fail to improve the lives of communities and achieve poor value for public money.

Social Outcomes Partnerships offer part of the solution through holistic, localized, and personalized solutions with communities.

As a Social Investment Manager, you will work on outcomes contracts activity in both the UK and other high-income countries.

You will develop new projects and partnerships along with ongoing management of the existing portfolio.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to the organization’s vision of growing direct and systemic impact nationally and internationally.

Responsibilities

• Initiate and execute the development of outcomes partnerships opportunities by identifying and engaging with challenges faced by central and local government and delivery partners to develop impactful delivery models
• Lead on the implementation of a full project lifecycle of outcomes-based projects and a portfolio of outcomes partnerships
• Lead on initial assessment and investment processes in project development
• Develop outcome contract models
• Lead operational and financial analysis
• Manage complete legal negotiations and documentation processes
• Proactively engage with key stakeholders to develop and implement delivery innovations while considering key assumptions around operations, impact, and finance
• Support teams to solve problems using first principles thinking
• Work with delivery partners to help create the best possible impact in sustainable ways by identifying issues and opportunities, initiating projects, and developing delivery innovations
• Create and maintain excellent stakeholder relationships by engaging in strong rapport-building with commissioners, outcome funders, and delivery partner teams
• Identify best delivery team structure for internal operational teams
• Contribute to social investor meetings to present project and market development activities

Requirements

• 7 or more years of experience working in social investment, financial and senior operational roles within the VCSE sector, management consulting, public sector delivery, or similar sectors
• Excellent financial and modelling skills with extensive experience in supporting the development of comprehensive business and financial plans
• Strong delivery and investment, advisory and/or operational track record
• Higher degree level education or equivalent experience
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, adept at working with multiple stakeholders
• Experience supporting the development of comprehensive value creation strategies
• Strong strategic, commercial, and entrepreneurial judgement
• Curious, analytical, highly numerate, and great at solving problems
• Exceptional at building strong working relationships with team members and across a range of stakeholders
• Flexible and adaptable team player with a can-do attitude
• Able to undertake a variety of activities with a substantial degree of personal responsibility and autonomy
• A genuine passion to drive social change
• Ability to deliver more than the system expects, demonstrating tenacity and relentless optimism
• Ability to think differently and approach problems from first principles
• Desire to work in a dynamic environment with solutions-focused approach
• Ability to build and maintain trust through excellent interpersonal skills and absolute integrity
• Self-starter comfortable working through complexity and coordinating diverse sets of stakeholders against tight deadlines and competing priorities
• Right to Work in the UK
• Experience working with government partners to develop social change projects (desirable)
• Experience of the social sector (desirable)
• Experience of impact investing (desirable)
• Experience working on projects tackling developmental challenges, preferably in areas like education, health, and employment (desirable)
• Dutch language skills (desirable)

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements to support healthy work-life balance
• 25 days annual leave plus 8 days for bank holidays and 2 additional gifted days between Christmas and New Year
• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme
• Life Insurance
• Income Protection Insurance
• Wellbeing benefits and resources
• Private Medical Insurance on successful completion of probation period
• Access to Learning and Development opportunities
• Opportunity to work with a dedicated, vibrant, dynamic, and talented team of people passionate about services that improve lives and public sector reform
• Hybrid working arrangement with 3 days per week in the office
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