Investment Partnerships and Advisory Manager/Senior Manager

The opportunity

Are you a motivated investor relations, partnerships lead or investment consultancy professional looking for a more purposeful career? Are you looking to leverage your skills to help drive social good? This might be the role you are looking for.

Better Society Capital's Investment Partnerships & Advisory Team provides support and tools to investors and BSC that unlocks more capital for social impact. The team engages with a wide range of investors—trusts & foundations, private wealth managers, the Local Government Pension Scheme, family offices, and donor-advised funds (DAFs)—to provide the insights, connections, and tools needed to grow the social impact investment market through advisory services. The team also supports Better Society Capital to achieve its mission by supporting key business priorities and building expert networks and pro bono partnerships that can bring further expertise into the sector. By building strategic partnerships, delivering high-quality advisory services, and engaging investors, the team helps channel more investment into solutions that drive meaningful social change.

We are seeking new joiners at either Manager or Senior Manager level to play a pivotal role in expanding and deepening the team’s work. This is an exciting opportunity for an investor relations, partnerships lead or consultancy professional who wants to apply their expertise in a purpose-driven environment. If you are motivated by using finance as a force for good, enjoy relationship-building, and thrive in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial setting, we’d love to hear from you.

We are recruiting for either a Manager or Senior Manager candidate.

What you will do

Reporting to BSC’s Managing Director of Investment Partnerships and Advisory, the successful applicant(s) will be responsible for day-to-day activities in relation to identifying, qualifying, and meeting investors for advisory or other forms of collaborative opportunities, as well as developing and growing networks of experts and partners that can help with BSC’s key business priorities.

• Engagement strategy:  developing and executing a structured approach to identifying and engaging with investors to grow the social investment market
• Relationship management: creating individual plans to nurture relationships with investors and other key partners in the social investment ecosystem
• Internal stakeholder management: working closely with BSC’s investment and engagement groups to help bring insights & connections to BSC’s investment and market building activities.
• Content marketing: originating and owning high quality, high impact presentations and pitch decks to showcase BSC’s offering and the value of social investment to new and existing investors and pro bono partners.
• Project Delivery: supporting the design and execution of advisory projects, BSC’s one-to-many tools, workshops, networking events, and other investor initiatives that help unlock more capital for impact.

What you will bring

Essential experience:

• Self starter with strong track record in building relationships with investors
• Interest in impact investing and/or social sector either in a personal or professional capacity
• Strong written and verbal communications skills and ability to communicate appropriately and effectively depending on the audience
• Experience developing and /or overseeing the production of superior quality investor facing reporting and marketing collateral, from ideation to execution
• Strong powerpoint and excel capabilities
• Proven project management capability
• Ability to communicate appropriately and effectively depending on the audience
• Strong CRM experience

Exerience of the above at a senior level will be required for consideration for the Senior Manager role

Desirable experience:

• Existing knowledge, networks and investor relationships
• Experience working in social impact investment sector
• Experience working in investment consultancy and/or other client-facing roles

Skills, Abilities and Attributes

• Familiarity with a wide range of investment solutions
• Evidence of success in origination and/or co-creation of valuable client relationships
• Able to confidently communicate the impact and risk adjusted financial return of social investments
• Ability to understand both the perspective and financing needs of potential investees and how this relates to investors’ motivations and constraints
• Ability to understand and empathise with the needs of different investor groups
• Ability to establish excellent working relationships both internally and externally
• Entrepreneurial self-starter who is highly motivated, keen to learn and happy to get involved and help the wider team as required
• Flexible, resilient and good at finding innovative solutions to problems
• Focused on deliverables, able to prioritise, works in a systematic and organised way
• Enjoys working autonomously & within a team

You can work with limited direction but are also a strong team player, outcome focused and highly motivated to be part of the movement to create a sustained shift in institutional investment to impact investing.

Embody Better 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.
• Rigorous - We take a rigorous approach in all we do.  We expect the highest standards and continually strive for excellence
• Respectful - We are genuine in both our approach and aspiration.  We value each member of our team and our partners for what they bring.

Other terms

• Location: We are a UK-based business with an office in the Old Street area of London, accessible to 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. We hope that this working pattern encourages Better Society Capital employees to achieve a healthy balance between work and personal life, as we adapt to the needs of our diverse workforce.
• Right to work: only candidates with the existing right to work in the UK can be considered
• Equality, 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; 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 with Colleen Cheetham-Gerrard (People & Talent Manager) at ccheethamgerrard@bettersocietycapital.com