Impact Consultant - Housing

Big Society Capital is looking for an Impact Manager or consultant that can support BSC’s efforts to create more safe, secure and affordable homes for people in the UK. Social Property is one of BSC’s 4 focus areas (alongside Social Lending, Social Outcomes and Impact Venture). Our goal is to affect the housing system to better meet the needs of homeless individuals and families and to ensure there’s an adequate supply of quality accommodation for groups in need such as women fleeing domestic abuse, care and prison leavers and people with disabilities.

As an Impact Manager or as a Consultant you will play an important role in helping manage key impact projects, support the housing team to deepen their impact analysis through better tools and data and influence the impact practices of other market players to ensure the investment system delivers on our goals.

The role will support BSC’s Housing strategy to grow and evolve the housing market system to address the undersupply of safe, secure affordable housing. Specifically, contributing to BSC’s systems change goal to shape the market around impact principles, including (1) identifying and promoting best in class impact investment strategies, helping to differentiate investment products on their impact characteristics; (2) Developing and promoting the use of high-quality impact management and measurement (IMM) practice to help drive impact delivery; and (3) deepening BSC’s ability to evaluate and learn from its housing investments and share that learning with others by strengthening data collection, analysis and presentation processes and tools.

The role will be both internally and externally focussed. Key internal stakeholders will be the BSC housing market system team whose knowledge and expertise around good impact analysis and practice is constantly evolving and who will be supported to utilise new frameworks, tools and guidance to improve their capacity to analyse investment propositions, drive better impact standards from BSC managers and capitalise on portfolio learning to inform decision making.

Key external stakeholders will be social and affordable investment fund managers who are delivering impact investing strategies. These will range from ‘impact-first’ managers that will benefit from support and expertise in evaluating their work, to large-scale commercial platforms who are undertaking impact investment strategies for the first time and are developing their impact management practice capabilities.

With respect to BSC’s homelessness investments, other key external stakeholders will include the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) and external evaluators and academics involved in evaluating social impact investments in housing.

BSC’s work in this area is led by an Investment Director who you will work closely with on a day-to-day basis and report to as line manager.

Core responsibilities: Support on Project Management, operational implementation and technical delivery of two substantial BSC-led Systems Change and Market Influencing projects and one BAU process.

Additional Responsibilities In addition, the role may involve supporting the team and Impact leads on : Impact management best-practice Supporting on the application and evolution of the IFC Operating Principles for Impact Management (OPIM) framework across BSC’s portfolio and promotion across the wider sector Support BSC to deepen its understanding of best-in-class impact practice by drawing lessons from other sectors, connecting to global initiatives and utilising impact management tools and ideas.

Location : We are a UK-based business with an office in the Chancery Lane 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. We hope that this working pattern encourages Big 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 : Candidates will be required to have the right to work in the UK Equality, Diversity and Inclusion : Big 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 Nica Gordon (People and Talent Officer) at [email removed - click apply for more details]

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