We invest in our people as seriously as we invest our portfolio. You will accelerate your growth through hands-on experience, tailored training and collaboration with sector-leading specialists as well as gaining direct exposure to our Investment Committee and senior leadership.

What You Will Do:

• Lead the performance management and manager relationships for a portfolio of social impact and treasury investments
• Manage a portfolio of social impact investments towards exit, delivering on financial returns, high social impact and systems change goals, including our charity bond investments and direct investments into or with fund managers.
• Share portfolio learnings that improve how we invest to benefit underserved and vulnerable individuals in the UK.
• Manage several treasury fixed income holdings alongside your primary social impact portfolio, overseeing performance of our externally managed mandate and contributing to strategic treasury initiatives such as asset allocation and ESG approach.
• Take the lead on special situations and exits
  • Take the lead on complex, often distressed special situations across the portfolio, including client portfolios, working alongside asset class teams to protect and recover value across financial, impact and systems change outcomes.
  • Lead the active management of exits across the portfolio, partnering with asset class teams to bring investments through to exit.
• Contribute to the management of our multi-asset portfolio
  • Lead parts of our fund manager strategy delivery, working alongside asset class teams to prioritise and learn from our engagement with fund managers.
  • Input into how we manage our overall portfolio performance, asset allocation and liquidity.
  • Lead on discrete analysis as required across financial, impact and systems change at the whole portfolio level, advancing how we consider these dimensions in an integrated way to support learning and performance management.
  • Over time, contribute to due diligence of potential new investments and strategic projects aligned with our 2026-2030 strategy.
• Help lead the next phase of our market-leading impact investment approach
  • Oversee and embed continuous improvement and learning from special situations and exits, sharpening how BSC manages risk across the portfolio.
  • Lead and contribute to parts of our market-leading impact investing practice, with colleagues across BSC and with external partners.
  • Contribute to team- and organisation-wide initiatives that help us deliver our mission, such as working groups on key priorities.

What You Will Bring – Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• A passion and demonstrable commitment to improving lives in the UK
• Investment experience including analysis, recommendations, monitoring performance and engaging with investees, issuers or fund managers
• Strong quantitative analysis and investment research skills, including financial analysis, modelling and market research
• Work experience that faces the financial, social or public sector
• Proven relationship-building and stakeholder management

Desirable

• Exposure to fixed income or credit analysis (we will support you here if needed)
• Work experience in social impact investing or sustainable investing
• Proven project management skills
• Knowledge of investing in real estate, renewables, venture, or outcomes contracts

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

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 anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

How to Apply & Interviews:

Closing Date: Wednesday 12th August at Midnight

Please apply via Applied which is designed to minimise unconscious bias in recruitment. You will be asked to provide your CV and a short written answer. Your CV and answer will be anonymised before being reviewed by the hiring panel.

NB We screen for applications that appear to be heavily generated by AI. You’re welcome to use AI tools to support small edits, such as improving grammar, structure or clarity, but your CV and supporting answer should reflect your own experience, knowledge, skills and motivations. Applications that feel authentic and genuinely personal are most likely to receive a high score.

We may use AI tools to support parts of our recruitment process, always with human oversight and in line with our principles on fairness, transparency and data protection.

Interviews

• Initial screening: w/c 24th August
• Round 1 interviews (virtual): w/c 31st August and 7th September
• Round 2 interviews (in-person): w/c 14th September

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer. Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria will be considered for an initial screening interview. When application numbers are high and we are unable to interview everyone who meets the minimum criteria, we will prioritise those who best meet the essential requirements of the role.

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.