Jessica Davies

Jessica is an Associate Director supporting charitable foundations to design and develop systemic solutions to entrenched social problems. She leads our work on methodologies for scaling impact and system change, and developed Social Finance’s Routes to Scale Framework. 

Her work has spanned issues and impact approaches, developing a broad toolkit of strategies over fifteen years’ experience of routes to social change, from leading strategy development for the new £1bn Motability Foundation, to convening funder coalitions, scoping and design for the Education Outcomes Fund, investment management and enterprise support in the Care & Wellbeing Fund and rolling out new digital tools to support Children’s Social Care.

Jess joined Social Finance from strategy consulting firm Parthenon-EY (formerly The Parthenon Group), where she worked on corporate strategy and commercial due diligence projects in education, consumer and business services. She also established and led Parthenon’s pro-bono practice, with a focus on supporting education/​youth charities and social enterprises. Prior to joining Parthenon, Jessica taught Citizenship for two years at a secondary school in West London through Teach First, and spent a year in Beijing learning Mandarin. She holds an MSc in Philosophy & Public Policy from the LSE, and a BA in Philosophy & French from Oxford University.