Impact Manager (Interim)

Global Impact Investing Network; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Better Society Capital (BSC), the UK's leading social impact investor, offers a 12-month fixed-term opportunity to shape how impact and systems change insights are generated and reported across our portfolio.

You will design a tech-first, data-driven capability, collaborate with our data, AI and asset-class teams, and deliver decision-useful reporting to our Investment Committee and Board, embedding rigorous ESG and EDI practice into deals and governance.

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of our tech-first, data-driven impact and systems change insights capability
• Lead portfolio-level analysis through our annual performance cycle, turning data into insight the investment team, leadership and our Investment Committee can act on
• Lead the redesign and delivery of decision-useful impact reporting
• Enable high quality deal-level impact, ESG and EDI analysis and practice across the investment lifecycle
• Help lead the next phase of our market-leading impact investment approach

Skills

Impact management

Data-driven insights

Stakeholder management

ESG & EDI analysis

Regulatory frameworks (TCFD/SDR)

Analytical thinking

Job description

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.

Qualifications

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

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 primarily with fund managers 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.