Strategic Investment Lead

Role Purpose

We are seeking a motivated, creative and delivery-minded individual to join us as our Strategic Investment Lead at the Royal Foundation’s Homewards Programme. The Lead will work with partners to unlock more funding and finance for solutions to prevent and end homelessness. The role will focus on connecting our locations to finance and funding opportunities, driving capacity and confidence to engage where possible. It will also focus on unlocking new and improved flows of funding through strategic engagement with major global partners.

We are looking for a big thinker and pragmatic ‘doer’. This is a chance to create thriving local ecosystems across the UK connecting capital to solutions that will transform their approach to end homelessness – as well as shaping brand new finance opportunities. Our aim is to create models with our partners that can be scaled across the UK and beyond.

About the Royal Foundation

The Royal Foundation mobilises leaders, businesses, and individuals to address society’s greatest challenges. Under the leadership of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, our initiatives are driven by world-class research, long-term partnerships, and a commitment to measurable, scalable impact.

About Homewards

In June 2023, Prince William and The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales launched Homewards. Homewards is a transformative five-year programme, working with six locations, to demonstrate that together it’s possible to end homelessness – making it rare, brief and unrepeated.

The Royal Foundation’s Homewards programme is recruiting to their Strategic Delivery team. This team will be focused on leveraging significant impact across the locations focused on key, cross-cutting, themes and report into the Programme Director.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead, shape and deliver the Funding and Finance strategy as part of The Royal Foundation’s Homewards programme.
• Work with a range of partners – experts, locations and partners from across the finance sector to connect our locations to capital and leverage new forms of funding opportunities. The Investment Lead will be supported by an expert advisory group and specialist support as needed.
• Inspired by best practice and local progress, through partners shape and support our locations to establish sustainable long-term connections and thriving ecosystems to deliver on their commitment to end homelessness.
• Work with the Homewards location teams to ensure the Funding and Finance strategy delivers on Local Action Plans (our locations’ roadmaps to preventing and ending homelessness); and support them to identify high potential local partners and grow relevant local relationships.
• Work closely with other Leads in the programme, specifically the Homes Lead and Employment Lead – and the central Partnerships team to ensure a joined-up approach which delivers maximum impact for Homewards and The Royal Foundation.
• Work across the Homewards team to prioritise, co-develop and deliver the strategy, ensuring the approach is backed by a robust delivery plan.
• Feed into wider Strategic Delivery approach and Homewards strategy as an expert in the Finance field.

Person Specification

• Broad knowledge and experience of delivering finance for social good and the role debt, equity and grant can play in driving forward powerful societal outcomes – and an appetite to learn.
• Demonstrable experience assessing risk and structuring relevant finance mechanisms, with a strong understanding of relevant language, concepts and approaches.
• Comfortable and confidence engaging with a diverse range of partners from public, private and voluntary stakeholders to connect and create thriving place-based ecosystems.
• Significant experience operating at a senior level working with major businesses to execute powerful new partnerships to create lasting impact – ideally with a focus on or background in a topic related to finance; and experience working at a local and national level to deliver.
• ‘Doer’ with background in executing ambitious policy or programmes in a relevant setting.
• Creative thinker with a desire to drive systemic change – understanding the role TRF and partners could play and what systemic change could look like when it to comes to delivering financial solutions to end homelessness.
• Confident leader who can support and empower the Homewards team to confidently engage in this area; and be an ambassador for Homewards across the finance and social impact sector.
• Self-starter and a desire to collaborate and ‘do’ – we’re a lean team who matrix work and person would need to be up for mucking in! We also have a wide network which will need to support this work, so you won’t be afraid of asking for help to drive forward bigger and better outcomes.

How to Apply

Please send your CV and Cover Letter (up to one A4 page) to Careers4Change – see below