Job Description
Job Title: Investment Manager
Department: Investment
Reports to: Investment Director
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £61,500 to £67,000 per annum, depending on experience
Location: Hybrid - London, EC1Y and homeworking
About Better Society Capital (BSC):
Better Society Capital (BSC) is the UK's leading social impact-led investor. Our mission is to grow the amount of money invested in tackling social issues and inequalities in the UK; we do this by investing ourselves and enabling others to invest for impact too.
Since 2011, we have helped the UK's social impact investment market grow twelve-fold to over £10 billion. This capital has financed social purpose organisations tackling everything from homelessness to mental health and fuel poverty.
BSC manages £634m of its own investments as well as acting as a portfolio manager for the Schroders BSC Social Impact Investment Trust managing its £83m portfolio. As BSC begins delivering its next five-year strategy, the organisation is embarking on a period of significant opportunity, growth and impact.
BSC has built a market leading impact investment approach. In 2025 BSC was placed on the BlueMark Global Practice Leaderboard after ranking in the top-quartile across all 8 dimensions of the Operating Principles for Impact Management.
The opportunity:
We re recruiting an Investment Manager to identify, assess and manage impact investment opportunities. You will also work with other teams to help develop the social impact investment market in the UK, working with investors, social enterprises and government.
We invest in our people as seriously as we invest our portfolio. You ll accelerate your growth through hands-on experience across multiple asset classes, tailored training programmes, direct exposure to our Investment Committee, and collaboration with sector-leading specialists.
If you re passionate about using investment to help improve people s lives, we want to hear from you.
What you will do:
Support the development of new investment opportunities, including:
Manage a number of our existing portfolio investments, including:
Qualifications & Experience
Essential:
Ø 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.
Ø 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
Ø Openness - We listen, learn, experiment and collaborate. And we are adaptive and flexible in responding to what we learn.
Ø Rigorous - We take a rigorous approach in all we do. We expect the highest standards and continually strive for excellence
Ø Respectful - We are genuine in both our approach and aspiration. We value each member of our team and our partners for what they bring.
Don t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from racialised communities are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. If you re excited about this role but your past experience doesn t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
How to apply:
Closing Date: 11.59pm on Sunday 10th May 2026
Please apply via Applied which is designed to minimise unconscious bias in recruitment. We will review your CV and a short cover letter which should answer the following:
Think of one piece of professional work from the last 3 years that best demonstrates why you d be a strong fit for this role at Better Society Capital. Please cover:
- Context: Where were you working and what was the goal?
- Your role: What were you personally responsible for?
- Two key decisions you made: What options did you consider, and why did you choose the path you did?
- Impact: What changed as a result? Please include any concrete outcomes (numbers, stakeholder feedback, decisions taken, etc.).
- Looking back: What, if anything, would you do differently now, and why?
Your CV will be anonymised and reviewed by the hiring panel to help minimise unconscious bias.
Interviews
Initial Screening calls: w/c 18 May 2026
Round 1 virtual interviews: w/c 01 June 2026
Round 2 in-person interviews: w/c 08 June 2026
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 you have a disability or other access needs and require any support to assist you through the recruitment process, please get in touch.
You can find out more about our recruitment approach here
Other terms
Location: We are a UK-based business with an office in the Old Street area of London, accessible via a number of public transport links. Colleagues typically spend 40% - 60% of their working hours in the office, and the remainder from home. However, the exact requirements for this role can be discussed at interview . click apply for full job details
Department: Investment
Reports to: Investment Director
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £61,500 to £67,000 per annum, depending on experience
Location: Hybrid - London, EC1Y and homeworking
About Better Society Capital (BSC):
Better Society Capital (BSC) is the UK's leading social impact-led investor. Our mission is to grow the amount of money invested in tackling social issues and inequalities in the UK; we do this by investing ourselves and enabling others to invest for impact too.
Since 2011, we have helped the UK's social impact investment market grow twelve-fold to over £10 billion. This capital has financed social purpose organisations tackling everything from homelessness to mental health and fuel poverty.
BSC manages £634m of its own investments as well as acting as a portfolio manager for the Schroders BSC Social Impact Investment Trust managing its £83m portfolio. As BSC begins delivering its next five-year strategy, the organisation is embarking on a period of significant opportunity, growth and impact.
BSC has built a market leading impact investment approach. In 2025 BSC was placed on the BlueMark Global Practice Leaderboard after ranking in the top-quartile across all 8 dimensions of the Operating Principles for Impact Management.
The opportunity:
We re recruiting an Investment Manager to identify, assess and manage impact investment opportunities. You will also work with other teams to help develop the social impact investment market in the UK, working with investors, social enterprises and government.
We invest in our people as seriously as we invest our portfolio. You ll accelerate your growth through hands-on experience across multiple asset classes, tailored training programmes, direct exposure to our Investment Committee, and collaboration with sector-leading specialists.
If you re passionate about using investment to help improve people s lives, we want to hear from you.
What you will do:
Support the development of new investment opportunities, including:
- Helping identify social issues or market needs where social impact investment can be an important part of the solution;
- Helping develop creative and innovative solutions to these identified social issues including building collaborative partnerships with diverse stakeholders including investors, charities and government.
- Project and relationship management, including supporting pipeline development and tracking;
- Undertaking detailed investment analysis, including of the market, the prospective investee, and the financial, social impact and systems change cases;
- Supporting the structuring of prospective investments;
- Preparing and presenting investment recommendations to our Investment Committee;
- Helping negotiate legal documents and close transactions.
Manage a number of our existing portfolio investments, including:
- Working with the fund managers to evaluate and manage their financial and social impact performance;
- Supporting and co-ordinating fund manager reporting to enable us to assess the contribution of the investments to our systems change, impact and financial goals across our portfolio and in the relevant asset classes;
- Supporting the design and undertake of analysis on impact and financial performance across portfolios of investments, including across asset classes and impact themes.
- Supporting the development and delivery of key strategic projects in BSC s asset classes and strategic areas of focus, moving towards leadership of strands depending on experience and learning over time
- Managing relationships with and help the long-term business development of fund managers
- Supporting our engagement work with investors and with charities and social enterprises to deliver on our strategic goals
- Helping to build a world class social impact investment team and approach at Better Society Capital, including acting as a champion for part of our impact investing approach or being part of a working group to deliver a strategic priority.
- Contributing to organisation-wide initiatives that help us deliver our mission such as working groups to improve the way we work or how we engage with certain stakeholders.
Qualifications & Experience
Essential:
- A passion and demonstrable commitment to improving lives in the UK
- Experience of undertaking and communicating detailed analysis of complex problems
- Experience developing solutions to complex problems
- Work experience that faces the financial, social or public sector
- Proven relationship building and influencing skills
- Work experience in social impact investing
- Proven project management skills
- Knowledge of housing or real estate, venture investment, social outcomes contracts or lending
- 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 source 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
Ø 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.
Ø 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
Ø Openness - We listen, learn, experiment and collaborate. And we are adaptive and flexible in responding to what we learn.
Ø Rigorous - We take a rigorous approach in all we do. We expect the highest standards and continually strive for excellence
Ø Respectful - We are genuine in both our approach and aspiration. We value each member of our team and our partners for what they bring.
Don t meet every requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from racialised communities are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. If you re excited about this role but your past experience doesn t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
How to apply:
Closing Date: 11.59pm on Sunday 10th May 2026
Please apply via Applied which is designed to minimise unconscious bias in recruitment. We will review your CV and a short cover letter which should answer the following:
Think of one piece of professional work from the last 3 years that best demonstrates why you d be a strong fit for this role at Better Society Capital. Please cover:
- Context: Where were you working and what was the goal?
- Your role: What were you personally responsible for?
- Two key decisions you made: What options did you consider, and why did you choose the path you did?
- Impact: What changed as a result? Please include any concrete outcomes (numbers, stakeholder feedback, decisions taken, etc.).
- Looking back: What, if anything, would you do differently now, and why?
Your CV will be anonymised and reviewed by the hiring panel to help minimise unconscious bias.
Interviews
Initial Screening calls: w/c 18 May 2026
Round 1 virtual interviews: w/c 01 June 2026
Round 2 in-person interviews: w/c 08 June 2026
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 you have a disability or other access needs and require any support to assist you through the recruitment process, please get in touch.
You can find out more about our recruitment approach here
Other terms
Location: We are a UK-based business with an office in the Old Street area of London, accessible via a number of public transport links. Colleagues typically spend 40% - 60% of their working hours in the office, and the remainder from home. However, the exact requirements for this role can be discussed at interview . click apply for full job details
About Better Society Capital