Key Responsibilities:

Investment Strategy and Delivery

• Set the investment strategy and approach for Lending, defining how it delivers systems change, social impact and financial return in line with BSC's strategy, supported by a high quality investment process.
• Build and deliver a pipeline of compelling and aligned investment opportunities across the lending sub-asset classes.
• Own and present investment recommendations to the Investment Committee, supporting your Investment Directors and Investment Managers.
• Manage portfolio performance in partnership with Impact Investment Management, Middle Office and Finance, including borrower and fund relationship management and special situations.
• Contribute a portfolio-wide perspective to BSC's annual strategic asset allocation process.
• Participate in Investment and Performance Committee, Valuation Committee and other investment governance forums.

Market Building and External Leadership

• Be the voice of Lending at BSC — building a compelling narrative, internally and externally, that positions BSC as the partner and thought leader of choice.
• Be an agent for systems change - work with Policy, Investor Partnerships & Advisory and Communications to design & deliver systems change strategies that shift market conditions, influence policy and unlock capital at scale for each of the lending sub-asset classes and Opportunity Areas.
• Build and steward strategic relationships with government, institutional investors and the social sector.
• Lead significant cross-organisational projects that contribute to BSC’s 2030 strategic goals, combining investment with BSC’s other capabilities such as policy and investor advisory.
• Represent BSC through speaking, writing and industry engagement that builds your and BSC's credibility and influence in the field.

Team Leadership

• Lead your team to deliver BSC's goals and your investment strategy, with clear priorities that connect daily work to mission.
• Design your team's structure and ways of working, and own resource allocation and budget for the Lending Asset Class.
• Develop your team's skills and careers through long-term development plans, strong performance management and intentional talent development.
• Contribute to Investment Leadership Team decisions on development planning, talent standards, and succession across the investment team.
• Build a diverse team where different perspectives and backgrounds are a genuine strength.

Organisational Leadership and Partnership

• Participate as a full member of the Investment Leadership Team and BSC's Senior Management Team, contributing to decisions and culture beyond Lending.
• Partner with Policy, Investor Partnerships & Advisory, Communications, Legal, Finance and People & Talent to deliver organisational goals.
• Lead or contribute to cross-organisational initiatives that advance BSC's mission. Model the behaviours we expect of leaders at BSC: sharing information proactively, giving and receiving feedback as a habit, and treating collective decisions as genuinely collective.

Skills and Experience:

Essential Qualifications & Experience

• A strong track record and understanding of credit investment, ideally with some exposure to one or more of: lending to social purpose organisations including social enterprise and charity lending, blended finance, impact private credit, renewable energy lending or social outcomes partnerships.
• Experience leading and developing a team of investors, with accountability for portfolio performance and originating new opportunities in an area of investment.
• A demonstrated ability to build relationships that shift outcomes in the system — with government, institutional & mission driven investors and social sectors — even if you haven't held all of these at once before.

Desirable Qualifications & Experience

• Experience operating across the public, private and social sectors, and translating complex or technical points for different audiences.
• Experience navigating investment governance and committee processes at a senior level.
• A track record of structuring deals or partnerships that have shifted market conditions beyond the transaction itself – by unlocking follow on capital, building infrastructure or proving a model that changed what others were willing to fund.
• Direct experience in social impact investment is an advantage but we are also open to strong candidates bringing relevant experience from an adjacent background e.g. development or sustainable finance, public finance and institutional investors with a strong interest in impact.

Skills, Abilities and Attributes

• Strong alignment to BSC’s Values & Behaviours
• A genuine connection to BSC's mission — tackling inequality and unlocking capital for lasting social and environmental impact in the UK.
• Motivated by systems change – and strong strategic thinker who thinks in systems, not only transactions: you consider the wider system and its key actors, understand the barriers to change, and find the inflexion points where investment can shift the whole market.
• Comfortable holding both ends of the job: rigorous, technical investment judgement and the outward-facing skill to build partnerships and shift market thinking. Resilient and realistic about the pace of change in impact-led capital — bold in ambition, grounded in delivery.
• Energised by ambiguity and by building things that don't yet exist, rather than executing an established playbook.
• Driven by curiosity, a learning mindset and strong commitment to growth and development.
• A genuine team player: you actively seek out challenge, share credit and seek to build collaborative partnerships that bring the best skills and experience to deliver on mission.