Investment Associate

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Better Society Capital Full time

**Department**: Investment Group

**Reports to**: Investment Director

**Grade and Salary**:£47,500 - £54,750

**Contract**:Full time; Permanent

**Location**:Hybrid: London (Chancery Lane) and homeworking

**The opportunity**:
We have a unique opportunity to accelerate your career in Social Impact Investment through Better Society Capital’s Investment Associate Development Programme. Whilst playing a key role as part of a dynamic and supportive team, you will develop your impact investment management skills, knowledge of social issues and your strategic and design thinking in order to help solve some of the UK’s most entrenched social issues.

This is an exciting time to join BSC as we refresh our strategy for 2025-30, building upon what we have learnt since we started our impact investing journey in 2012. Our team comes from a wide range of backgrounds, and are driven by transforming the way mainstream financial markets help deliver deep and lasting impact on people in the UK. If you are someone who shares our passion to improve people’s lives, and who is enthusiastic about designing and developing creative solutions to complex problems, we would love to hear from you.

**What you will do**:
**Help us make and manage investments through research and analysis,** including:

- Undertaking research and detailed analysis to help us understand social issues and market gaps where social impact investment can help support a solution, within our market systems (social property, social lending, impact venture and social outcomes); synthesize and present these; and monitor relevant market data and update the team on relevant developments in the market systems, for example related to the issues, asset classes and policy areas.
- Undertaking supplementary analysis of performance, benchmarks and other research that helps enhance our understanding of performance of the portfolio.

**Support prospective investments through our investment process across our market systems, **including:

- Undertaking detailed investment analysis, including of the market, the prospective investee, and the financial, social impact and systems change cases;
- Assisting in preparing and presenting investment recommendations to our Investment Committee;
- Helping deal leads and legal team negotiate legal documents and close transactions.

This will likely involve specialising in one market system for a period of time.

**Support management of our existing portfolio investments,** including:

- Supporting and co-ordinating fund manager reporting of that helps BSC to assess the contribution of the investments to our systems change, impact and financial goals across our portfolio and in the relevant market system
- Undertaking data gathering, aggregation and detailed analysis to evaluate impact and financial performance across portfolios of investments in our market systems, including working with fund managers on individual investments

**Systems change agent**
- Supporting delivery of key strategic projects in BSC’s market systems, including through project management
- Supporting our engagement work with investors and with charities and social enterprises to deliver on our market system goals, for example helping to co-ordinate networks and events in partnership with Investment Networks and Engagement teams.

**Team and approach**
- Helping to build a world class social impact investment team and approach at Better Society Capital, such as acting as a champion for part our investment management 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.

**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 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

Embody Big Society Capital core values:

- **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.
- **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
- **Openness** - We listen, learn, experiment and collaborate. And we are adaptive and flexible in responding to what we learn.
- **Rigor

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