Impact Manager (interim)

Better Society Capital; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Better Society Capital in London is seeking a data-driven specialist to design and deliver tech-first impact insights across the portfolio. You will build data infrastructure, shape insights, and lead portfolio-level analysis to guide investment decisions.

You will redesign governance reporting and external disclosures, enabling robust ESG/EDI analysis across the lifecycle. The role offers hybrid work with in-office 40-60% in London.

Qualifications

• Experience in designing and delivering impact management frameworks.
• Ability to communicate detailed analysis of complex problems.
• Experience leveraging data/tech to deliver impact insights.
• Experience in financial, social or public sector work.

Responsibilities

• Shape and prioritise insights across asset classes and themes; build internal data infrastructure with data/AI teams; lead portfolio-level analysis.
• Redesign decision-useful impact reporting for governance bodies and external disclosures.
• Deliver impact, ESG and EDI analysis across the investment lifecycle and align KPIs.
• Lead and contribute to market-leading impact investing practices and cross-team initiatives.

Skills

Impact management

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

ESG/EDI analysis

Regulatory frameworks

Impact investing

Job description

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 2012, we have helped grow the UK's social impact investment market thirteen-fold, to more than £11 billion, proving that impact investing can scale when social outcomes and investment opportunity are genuinely aligned. We have committed more than £1 billion of our own capital to social impact investments, and today hold a live portfolio of over 100 investments across the UK, spanning early-stage and mature positions, all working towards lasting impact for the people and communities they serve.

We're now delivering our 2026-2030 strategy: mobilising £20-30 billion in capital to positively impact 15-20 million lives across the UK over the next decade. We're focusing our expertise and capital on four challenge areas: housing, economic opportunity, climate and energy, and health. These have been chosen because each combines urgent social need, proven investment models and a clear role for BSC to play.

This is BSC's next chapter. Building on everything we've proven since 2012, we're scaling with greater ambition and sharper focus, and looking for people who want to help shape how we get there.

The Opportunity:

This is a 12 month fixed-term opportunity to take on a central role in how BSC manages impact and systems change across all asset classes we invest in, at a pivotal moment as we become a tech-first organisation. We welcome applicants looking for a secondment as well as those seeking a fixed-term contract to cover a period of parental leave.

You will help shape how BSC generates, reports on and acts on impact and systems change insight across our whole portfolio. This spans building the data infrastructure and analytical capability behind our investment decisions, redesigning how we report to our Investment Committee, Board and external stakeholders, and working directly with the asset class teams and fund managers to embed rigorous impact, ESG and EDI practice into individual deals.

You'll be joining a team already recognised for the strength of its impact investing practice. In 2025 and 2026, following BlueMark’s independent verification, 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. You will help carry that standard forward.

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

What you will do:

Help lead the design and delivery of our tech-first, data-driven impact and systems change insights capability

• Shape the insights we build and prioritise across asset classes and impact themes, aligned with our 2026-30 strategy.
• Help build the internal data infrastructure that underpins these insights, working with our data, AI and asset class teams to sharpen and scale what we can deliver.
• Lead portfolio-level analysis through our annual performance cycle, turning data into insight the investment team, leadership and our Investment Committee can act on.

Help lead the redesign and delivery of decision-useful impact reporting

• Lead the design of management information that supports how we make, manage and learn from our investments across the portfolio.
• Support the delivery of reporting to our key governance bodies including our Investment Committee and Board.
• Support the redesign and delivery of our external impact report, and lead on our impact, ESG and EDI disclosures.

Enable high quality deal-level impact, ESG and EDI analysis and practice across the investment lifecycle

• Deliver impact, ESG and EDI analysis for investment across their lifecycle, as needed.
• Working with asset class teams, steward the effective completion of our shared ‘impact term sheet’ with our fund managers, including agreeing measurable KPIs.

Help lead the next phase of our market-leading impact investment approach

• Lead and contribute to parts of our market-leading impact investing practice and process, in collaboration with colleagues across BSC and with external partners as the opportunities arise.
• 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:

• A passion and demonstrable commitment to improving lives in the UK
• Experience in the design and delivery of impact management and measurement frameworks, processes and tools
• Experience undertaking and communicating detailed analysis of complex problems
• Experience leveraging data and technology to deliver impact insights
• Work experience that faces the financial, social or public sector
• Proven relationship-building and stakeholder management
• Work experience in impact investing or sustainable investing
• Experience of ESG and/or EDI analysis
• Experience or knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as TCFD and SDR, and/or reporting frameworks such as PRI

Skills, Abilities and Attributes

• Structured thinker - able to deal with complexity and keep focus in the face of challenge or uncertainty
• Innovative, creative and strategic approach to problem solving
• Collegial team player - flexible and willing to work with and contribute to a team
• Strong analytical skills and an ability to harness, analyse and interpret data
• Relationship management - excellent interpersonal skills and able to build relationships at all levels
• A confident and effective communicator with an ability to integrate within and across teams
• Hunger for continued learning and development, including developing others
• Self-starter - able to work under own initiative and source new opportunities

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

Round 1 interviews (virtual): 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.

Monday 31st August - 23:59

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. We envision that for this role, the successful candidate will be required to 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

Candidates need to have the existing right to work in the UK and for the duration of employment as we are unable to provide work visa sponsorship.

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.