"Impact Investment Associate"

London School of Economics and Political Science - 100x Impact

Location: London

Salary: £36,513 to £41,565 pa inclusive with potential to progress to £44,468 pa inclusive of London allowance

Hours: Full Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Placed On: 1st September 2025

Closes: 28th September 2025

LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university.

100x is a world-leading impact initiative based in the Marshall Institute at the London School of Economics, with a mission to scale social innovations that can positively impact the lives of hundreds of millions of people. 100x supports and learns from the most promising and scalable social ventures tackling the world’s most pressing social problems, spanning health, climate change, social inequality, and more.

The Impact Investment Associate will work across the sourcing, selection, funding and reporting lifecycle for the highly-competitive 100x Impact accelerator programme, that includes working with social ventures across all forms (non-profit and for-profit). The role will involve supporting the Venture Acceleration team to source and select future participants for the programme, including narrowing down an extensive pool of applicants to a shortlist, identifying additional internal support for selecting ventures, and participating in detailed due diligence of the shortlisted social ventures.

Candidates should have relevant experience of working on grants and/or investment identification, selection, and disbursement processes, as well as an understanding of the impact metrics required at the venture and portfolio level. Candidates should also have the ability to work with and analyse large sets of data using online analytics, and the ability to compile and manage an application and selection process, from stakeholder engagement to secure online management of data.

We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave, hybrid working, and excellent training and development opportunities.

For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification.

To apply for this post, please click the 'Apply' button above. If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email Kayleigh@100ximpact.org.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 28 September 2025 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.