Job Title: Investment Manager – Portfolio
Reports to: Investment Director - Portfolio
Grade: Manager - Senior
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £60,000 to £65,000 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 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. BSC is about to implement its next five-year strategy, which will offer new opportunities.
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 – Portfolio to take a leading role in managing our multi-asset Treasury Portfolio and drive forward key elements of our Social Impact Investment Portfolio.
This is an exciting chance for someone to leverage their investment and financial market expertise in an organisation that is driven by impact and systems change to improve people’s lives. You’ll have the opportunity to gain core impact investing knowledge and skills by working across our portfolio of social impact investments including charity bonds, driving financial and impact outcomes for funds nearing exit, and partnering with our lending, venture and property teams on high-impact projects and investments.
You’ll be able to engage directly with diverse fund managers in our Treasury Portfolio, take an active role in liquidity management working alongside colleagues across BSC, and present performance insights to our Investment Committee, supported by our external advisor XPS.
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:
Take a leading role in the ongoing management of our multi-asset Treasury Portfolio, collaborating closely with the Middle Office and Finance Teams, including:
* Lead the investment analysis, performance monitoring and manager engagement for our treasury holdings across fixed income, real assets and multi-asset funds
* Lead Treasury Portfolio performance reporting including to our Investment Committee, working closely with the Middle Office and Finance Teams.
* Collaborate with our external advisor XPS to shape views on market conditions and investment ideas.
* Participate in monthly liquidity meetings led by the Finance Team to support active liquidity management.
* Support strategic initiatives on how we deliver our Treasury Portfolio such as the review of our asset allocation, enhancing our ESG approach or reviewing fund mandates.
Lead the performance management and manager engagement for our social impact investments, including:
* Manage a portfolio of social impact investments towards exit and delivery on financial returns, high social impact and system change goals.
* Oversee our externally managed charity bond portfolio, including where needed, engaging with issuers refinancing.
* Capture key portfolio learnings that can help improve how we invest to benefit underserved and vulnerable individuals in the UK.
Partner with our property, venture and lending teams to provide additional support on portfolio projects as required, including for special situations and market or sector analysis
Help to build a world class social impact investment approach and team, including:
* Lead and contribute to parts of our impact investing practice and process in collaboration with colleagues across BSC.
* Contribute to team, and, organisation-wide initiatives that help us deliver our mission such as working groups to improve our approach on key areas.
What you will bring:
Qualifications & Experience
Essential:
* Demonstrable commitment to improving lives in the UK
* Experience in public markets and/or fixed income, including performing investment analysis, making investment recommendations, monitoring performance and engaging with investees / fund managers.
* Demonstrable knowledge and application of macroeconomic analysis and drivers of investment performance
* Demonstrable strong quantitative analysis and investment research skills, including through financial analysis, modelling and market research
* Demonstrable experience in project management
* Proven relationship building and stakeholder management
Desirable:
* Work experience in impact investing or sustainable investing
* Work experience that faces the financial, social or public sector
* Knowledge of investing in credit, real estate, renewables, venture, or outcome contracts
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 Better Society Capital core values:
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.
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.
Right to work: We will consider employment sponsorship for this role for successful candidates
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Better Society Capital is committed to being a diverse organisation that is truly representative of the communities we serve. We therefore welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, particularly those under-represented in the social impact investment sector (e.g. people from LGBTQIA+, racialised, disabled, or under-served communities).
We are an equal opportunities employer with an inclusive environment where all employees can contribute to their fullest potential. We want every colleague to be able to deliver their work with dignity, equality, comfort and independence. Our office is fully accessible with step-free access and an open-plan set up. We are open to accommodation requests regarding assistive technologies, accessibility tools, flexible working or any other reasonable adjustments that will make working or visiting here more accessible for 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.
How to apply:
Closing Date: 11.59pm on Sunday 21st December 2025
Please apply via Applied which is designed to minimise unconscious bias in recruitment. You will be asked some work-based questions which are reviewed anonymously by the hiring panel. Please note, while you will upload your CV, it will not be viewed by panel members at this stage, so we ask that you give full consideration to each answer.
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Interviews
Round 1 interviews will be held w/c 12 January 2026
Round 2 interviews will be held w/c 19 January 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.