Global Chief Compliance Officer and Managing Director —Manulife Investment Management Private Markets Timberland

Based in Boston, the role of Global Chief Compliance Officer—Manulife Investment Management Private Markets Timberland, Agriculture, and Private Equity Infrastructure has the following three principal responsibilities:
Investment Management Compliance. Responsible for the design and execution of a SEC 206(4)-7 compliance program for Manulife Investment Management Timberland and Agriculture Inc (“MIMTA”). MIMTA investments (managed through various subsidiaries in a variety of jurisdictions) consist primarily of approximately 16 billion of U.S. and non-U.S. farmland and timberland, as well as certain related investments, such as carbon sequestration for timberland and “Plus” assets for farmland.

“Plus” assets include investments in operating companies that add value to farmland investments. MIMTA’s clients and investors include U.S. and non-U.S. institutional investors, such as pension plans, corporations, insurance companies, foundations, endowments, and family offices, through separately managed accounts, as well as MIMTA-managed pooled vehicles. MIMTA’s investment management and property management operations and supported by approximately 650 employees operating in the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Chile, and New Zealand.

Based on assets and acres under management, MIMTA is one of the largest natural capital investment managers in the world. MIMTA Real Asset Operational Compliance. Responsible for oversight of MIMTA’s property management compliance program (health and safety, environmental compliance, farm labor contractors and land‑use compliance). MIMTA utilizes affiliated and third‑party property management firms to provide day‑to‑day property management services to its managed investments (close to 6 million acres of timberland and farmland assets).

MIMTA’s global subsidiary property management companies and their regional offices are used to oversee field operations to ensure that client objectives are carried out. Private Equity Infrastructure Compliance. Responsible for the design and execution of the Manulife Investment Management Private Equity Infrastructure Group’s (“PE Infrastructure Group”) compliance program. The program consists of a series of private investment funds investing principally in US infrastructure assets on behalf of external investors and Manulife’s General Investment Account.

This program is managed through a SEC‑registered investment adviser that is separate from MIMTA (the registered investment adviser described above). This portion of the overall role’s responsibility is to be the global lead compliance officer for the PE Infrastructure Group. In this role, the employee will report to the 206(4)-7 Chief Compliance Officer of a separate SEC‑registered investment adviser legal entity (and solely as it relates to the day‑to‑day regulated compliance activities of the PE Infrastructure Group).

Provide compliance and ethical leadership and manage a sound Rule 206(4)-7 compliance program for MIMTA, including development and maintenance of policies and procedures, testing, management of regulatory examinations, regulatory change management, training, conflict of interest management, management and oversight committee reporting, and regulatory filings. This role is the Rule 206(4)-7 CCO of MIMTA. Develop, document, and administer policies and procedures to assure they are (and continue to be) reasonably designed to prevent, detect, and promptly correct violations of the federal securities laws as well as other applicable legal regimes.

Administer written policies and procedures adopted under Rule 206(4)-7 of the Advisers Act, designed to prevent the violation of federal…