Foresight Group
Natural Capital Asset Management Associate
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Department: Natural Capital (Real Assets) Asset Management
Location: Edinburgh
Role Overview
Exposure to a multi-award-winning team and £250m natural capital portfolio - the UK’s largest privately coordinated afforestation initiative in a generation. Working across a portfolio that holistically integrates timber, carbon, and biodiversity outcomes. Direct involvement in delivering long-term value for institutional investors and deep environmental and social impact. The role combines asset management, financial management, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring efficient portfolio performance.
Key Responsibilities
Asset Management
- Support the oversight of a scaled multi-asset multi-geography forestry & natural capital portfolio
- Collaborate with third-party forest managers, contractors, and estate teams, acting as a key liaison for operational coordination
- Contribute to the onboarding of new assets including establishing and improving operational and reporting frameworks
- Support implementation of portfolio-wide processes and systems to enable highly scalable delivery
- Coordinate and attend site visits, inspections, meetings, and operational reviews
- Assist with carbon project management, including interaction with project documentation and verification processes (e.g., Woodland Carbon Code or similar frameworks)
- Assist with legal and administrative management of the portfolio, including maintaining contract documentation
- Maintain internal systems and reporting tools, ensuring data accuracy and effective document management
- Support delivery and monitoring of carbon, biodiversity, and community outcomes programmes
- Support optimization of land use across timber, carbon, and habitat objectives
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Financial Management & Reporting
- Manage the production of internal reporting documentation, including board-level reporting
- Assist in the preparation of external reporting materials both at a fund and group level
- Support budget and cash flow forecasting production and variance analysis, including elementary financial modelling
- Maintain asset-level financial tracking across revenue streams (timber, carbon, grants, and other income)
- Support invoice processing and payment tracking
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Stakeholder Management
- Support communication with key stakeholders including forest managers, community members, and investors
- Assist in responding to investor queries and fundraising activities
- Help maintain relationships with external stakeholders, including communities, suppliers, contractors, and off-takers
Skills & Experience
- 2+ years relevant experience
- Strong organizational and analytical skills, with ability to manage multiple workstreams concurrently
- Strong interest in natural capital, forestry, carbon, and biodiversity markets
- Excellent communication skills
- High attention to detail
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, CoPilot)
- Full driving licence (preferred)
- GIS or spatial data (preferred)
For further information and to apply for the role, please contact Murray Aitchison (MAitchison@foresightgroup.eu) and Christian Tingsgaard Lassen (CTingsgaardLassen@foresightgroup.eu)
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