Social Finance Associate, India

About the British Asian Trust 

The British Asian Trust is a diaspora-led international development organisation, delivering high quality programmes in South Asia. Since our formation, we have impacted the lives of over 13 million people across South Asia with high-impact interventions to address the subcontinent’s critical unmet needs in areas of livelihoods, mental health, education, child protection and conservation.

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Role overview

Our Social Finance practice started in 2017 and in 2018 we launched the world’s largest education Development Impact Bond (called Quality Education India Development Impact Bond) in India with global and domestic partners. Over the last three years we have developed extensive experience in driving new outcomes focused projects with philanthropists, donors and implementation partners. Most recently, we launched LiftEd, our most ambitious social finance project to date addressing Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) in India, built on the success of programmes like our Quality Education India Development Impact Bond.  

We aim to encourage the development sector in South Asia to focus on financing approaches and tools that are linked to and incentivise the achievement of social outcomes, with a deep belief that innovative approaches to aid and philanthropy can improve international development and social outcomes. We work in collaboration with external partners on all our projects and are committed to an agile and entrepreneurial approach and making a deep impact in South Asia.

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Closing date for applications 
20 March 2025

We value diversity and aspire to reflect this in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from all sections of the community, irrespective of race, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief.

Please note that due to the large number of applications we expect to receive we will only be able to contact short-listed candidates and cannot offer feedback on unsuccessful applications. 

Thank you for your interest in working for the British Asian Trust. We look forward to hearing from you.