Fund Lead

New Forests is hiring a Fund Lead in Singapore to manage and grow a diversified portfolio of forestry and carbon assets. The role involves overseeing fund performance, coordinating operations, engaging with investors, and ensuring compliance with governance frameworks. Key responsibilities include fund leadership, asset management, and driving ESG initiatives. This position offers a unique opportunity to lead in sustainability and investment management.
# Applicant Portal:## Job Details: Fund Lead - Forestry and Carbon Investments| | Fund Lead - Forestry and Carbon Investments || | New Forests is seeking a senior investment professional to lead the management and growth of a diversified portfolio of forestry and carbon assets. As Fund Lead, you will take full responsibility for fund performance — financial, environmental, social and governance — and drive value creation across a portfolio of high-impact, natural-capital investments. You will coordinate fund operations, oversee asset managers, engage with investors, and ensure compliance with governance frameworks. This is a unique opportunity to combine fund leadership, asset management and sustainability at scale || | 1. Fund Leadership & Performance • Overall responsibility for the performance of the fund covering safe and ethical operations, financial returns, and ESG- environmental, social and governance impacts in line with constituent documents and internal processes. • Lead major fund-level or asset-level strategic projects in line with New Forest board and investment committee mandates. • Closely coordinate with internal functional teams (Investments, Data Solutions, Investor Services, Finance, Legal, Risk & Compliance, Business Development). 2. Portfolio & Asset Management • Oversee and optimize the performance of asset managers who handle day-to-day operations within fund assets. • Develop and monitor asset-level business plans for timber, carbon, land, and related infrastructure. • Review and guide financial and carbon models, assumptions, and valuation methodologies at both asset and fund levels. • Identify and execute value-creation initiatives (improved silviculture, certification upgrades, carbon methodology expansion, operational efficiencies). 3. Fund Operations • Coordinate all fund operations to ensure optimal performance and alignment with investor requirements. • Lead compilation of fund strategic plans, budget planning and periodic updates of fund-level financial models. • Oversee periodic valuation exercise, procurement and supervision of third-party service providers (property managers, auditors, consultants, valuers). • Coordinate fund capital structuring (loan structuring, taxation, expense management, performance fee calculations). • Manage fund insurance coverage and evaluate acquisitions and dispositions of assets in collaboration with the Investments team. 4. Governance & Investor Relations • Ensure full compliance with investor constituent documents, internal policies, and legal obligations in collaboration with legal, risk, and compliance staff. • Fill designated fund operating company directorships in fund-owned assets and operating companies. • Aggregate and present quarterly and annual reporting (financial, ESG, carbon and long-term return forecasts) to management committees, boards, and at investor annual meetings. • Respond to investor enquiries and provide timely updates to meet investor requirements. 5. Carbon & ESG- Environmental, Social and Governance Leadership • Drive fund-level ESG performance through strategic initiatives, working with property managers and asset-level staff. • Oversee generation, verification, and reporting of fund/asset carbon stocks in coordination with third-party asset managers. • Ensure adherence to recognized carbon standards and best-practice MRV-Measurement Reporting and Verification processes. 6. People Leadership • Manage direct reports of asset managers providing direction, support and setting boundary conditions • Lead staff development, training and mentoring, conduct performance reviews, and determine appropriate resourcing allocations across asset activities. • Promote a high-performance culture focused on disciplined asset management, operational excellence and transparent reporting. || | We are seeking accomplished professionals who bring: • 10+ years’ experience in investment, fund, or asset management, with a strong track record of delivering both financial and ESG outcomes. Experience in forestry, agriculture, or natural capital is highly valued. • Expertise in fund operations, asset management, and carbon markets, including certification and MRV (Measurement, Reporting, and Verification) processes. • Proven leadership of multidisciplinary teams and effective management of diverse stakeholder relationships. • Comprehensive understanding of economic, social, environmental, and governance factors that drive portfolio value. • Demonstrated success in investor reporting, governance compliance, and performance optimisation across complex portfolios. • Strong commercial acumen, including contract management, negotiation, and financial analysis skills. • Outstanding stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage a broad range of audiences. • Experience with tropical forestry operations and relevant tertiary