Investment Director - Portfolio

Global Impact Investing Network; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading impact investment organization is seeking an experienced Investment Director to manage portfolio performance and support teams across various sectors. The role encompasses strategic leadership, financial analysis, and collaboration with governance bodies to optimize investment impact. Candidates should have a commitment to social improvement, experience in private markets, and strong interpersonal skills. The position offers a hybrid work model with flexibility in location, emphasizing work-life balance.

Benefits

Tailored in-house and external training

Flexible working arrangements

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Demonstrable commitment to improving lives in the UK.
• Experience in managing performance in private markets.
• Expertise in complex financial analysis and modelling.
• Strong stakeholder management and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in asset allocation and portfolio risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead key parts of managing the portfolio for financial and social goals.
• Support the delivery of asset allocation and portfolio risk management.
• Partner with deal teams on financial analysis for investments.
• Oversee the effective delivery of the end-to-end investment process.
• Contribute to organizational development and team management.

Skills

Structured thinker

Innovative and strategic problem solver

Excellent written and oral communication

Relationship management

Self-starter

Job description

Reports to: Head of Investment Management

Grade: Director

Employment Type: Full-time

Salary: £75,000 to £82,000 per annum, depending on experience

Contract: Permanent

Location: Hybrid - London, EC1Y and homeworking

We are seeking an exceptional Investment Director to join our investment team and take a leadership role in how we manage portfolio performance, allocate our capital for impact, and support our teams across venture, property and lending.

This is a broad, high-impact role combining strategic leadership and hands‑on delivery. You will collaborate across the organisation and work with senior governance bodies, such as our Investment Committee. You will help to define how our capital can grow the market and deliver strong financial and social outcomes across the UK.

We are deeply committed to learning and development, offering a unique environment to accelerate your growth through on‑the‑job experience, tailored in‑house and external training, and observing our Investment Committee.

If you’re passionate about improving lives through the power of investment and thrive on designing creative, practical solutions to complex challenges, we’d love to hear from you.

What you will do:

Lead on key parts of managing our portfolio to deliver financial, impact and systems change goals, including:

• Working with asset class teams and our Investment Committee to deliver high quality pipeline investments against strategic and tactical asset allocation targets.
• Lead the setting and effective delivery of performance management through the investment lifecycle in partnership with other colleagues in the team and wider organisation. This includes delivering insights on the portfolio and asset classes across financial, impact and systems change performance.
• Working closely with the team head, oversee the delivery to our governance bodies to enable effective decision making for mission.

Support the delivery of our asset allocation and portfolio risk management:

• Working closely with the team head, lead the review and delivery of our Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation. This includes working with asset class teams to review pipeline, new deal archetypes and key portfolio liquidity dependencies with the Middle Office and Finance Teams.
• Develop our approach to portfolio risk management and lead consistent application of our risk framework across investments reporting to our governance bodies.

Partnering with deal teams on financial analysis for new and portfolio deals:

• Work with deal teams on assessing key financial performance drivers across the investment lifecycle.
• As required, supervise or undertake complex financial analysis and financial modelling with support from the Investment Manager - Portfolio.

Oversee the effective delivery of our of end-to-end investment process, enabled through technology and AI:

• Lead and coordinate the ongoing improvement of our leading impact investment process.
• Oversee the effective delivery throughout the end-to-end lifecycle of the investment, enabled by technology and supported by junior team members.
• Support the training of the wider investment team on key areas of our investment approach and tools.

Support team management and contribute to organisation development:

• Helping build a world class impact investing approach and team.
• Contributing to organisation-wide initiatives that help us deliver on mission such as improving how we work, target particular social issues or work with key partners.
• Effectively line manage 3 employees and supervise junior members of the team with a focus on supporting their development and growth.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable commitment to improving lives in the UK
• Demonstrable experience of investing in private markets, including managing performance
• Demonstrable experience of complex, detailed financial analysis and financial modelling
• Demonstrable experience of stakeholder management and strong interpersonal skills
• Experience of managing people and forming collaborative partnerships
• Experience of asset allocation and portfolio risk management
• Experience of impact investing to consider impact and financial performance holistically
• Experience in the financial, charitable or public sectors
• Experience working alongside and presenting recommendations to an executive or board within organisations
• Experience using technology including AI to enable effective delivery of investment processes and practices.

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
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Hunger for continued learning and development, including developing others

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.

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. 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

We will consider employment sponsorship for this role for successful candidates

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, 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 with Krystle De Guzman (Talent Acquisition & Development Officer) on

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 is about to implement its next five year strategy in 2026, which will offer new opportunities to target social issues at a national scale.