Investment Manager

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Job Description

Salary: £59,759

Grade: Level 5 Zone 2

Location: 5 Pancras Square, N1C 4AG

Contract Type: 1 year contract

Hours: 36 per week, full time

Closing Date: 4 March 2025 at 23:55

About Camden

Camden is a borough driven by social justice, where we work alongside our citizens to tackle complex challenges and ensure that no one is left behind. Our residents are our greatest asset, and we are committed to increasing citizen participation in decision making to build a stronger, more connected community. The Community Wealth Fund (CWF) is a £30m social impact investment initiative aimed at transforming investment and funding markets for the better. Focused on increasing economic opportunities for young people and ensuring greater diversity in leadership, this ambitious fund places citizen involvement and decision making at its core.

How You'll Be Involved

As the Community Wealth Fund enters our pilot phase, we seek an experienced social investment professional to work with our Youth Panel and community decision making groups to build out two new investment funds, one focused on improving economic opportunities for the young people of Camden, and the other focused on giving entrepreneurs from under-represented backgrounds access to capital.

You will support our community decision making groups in shaping an investment strategy, designing and launching a fund, conducting due diligence, and making investments. This is social investment done in a completely new way; therefore the role requires adaptability, strong emotional intelligence, and a commitment to power-sharing in investment.

You will manage partnerships across Camden, particularly building networks of entrepreneurs and business leaders interested in our funding. Supporting underrepresented entrepreneurs through the application process will be central to this role. You will also handle investments from application to disbursement, including legal agreements, and refine processes alongside our panels.

All About You
We are looking for someone who has experience in structuring investments across equity, debt, and quasi-equity, conducting financial analysis and due diligence, and preparing investment recommendations. Strong communication skills, emotional awareness, and an interest in continuous improvement are essential. You should have experience supporting entrepreneurs through an investment process, negotiating legal agreements, and building investment pipelines. A strong understanding of impact measurement and stakeholder engagement will be key to success.

If you decide to apply for this job, please make sure that in the application form you explain in detail how you have acquired and put into practice the following key skills. These are the criteria we will be shortlisting applications against:

1. Communication skills, especially explaining investment principles to non-investors
2. Investment expertise, and details of which instruments you have worked with previously
3. Running an investment process end to end
4. Supporting entrepreneurs through an investment process
5. Ways in which you have tackled inequality through your work

What We Offer

At Camden, you'll receive a host of benefits including:

• 27 days annual leave for new starters, rising to 31 days after 5 years
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Flexible working opportunities
• Interest free loans
• Access to our incredible staff networks
• Career development and training
• Wellbeing support and activities

Inclusion and Diversity
We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.

Anonymised Application - in keeping with Camden's commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.

Asking for Adjustments
Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.