Principal Impact Investing

Global Impact Investing Network; Remote; SGD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An impact investing organization based in Singapore seeks a Principal to lead its healthcare investments in Asia Pacific. The role focuses on identifying opportunities in health and AI sectors, managing venture capital transactions, conducting due diligence, and building key partnerships. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in health-sector investing, a proven track record in deal sourcing, and exceptional communication skills. This position promotes improving healthcare for underserved children and contributes to innovative investment strategies.

Qualifications

• 8 years of work experience in Healthtech, Private Equity, or related fields.
• Expertise in healthcare access, AI, Telehealth, and nutrition.
• Experience in deal sourcing and financial statement analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead healthcare investing across APAC region.
• Manage venture capital transaction processes.
• Conduct due diligence on healthcare and AI companies.
• Prepare reports for Investment Committee and Board.

Skills

Health-sector investing

Financial modeling

Deal sourcing

Written and oral communication skills

Network in Asian innovation hubs

Passionate about improving healthcare

Interest in new technologies

Self-motivated in dynamic settings

Education

Undergraduate degree in related field

Job description

Note to candidates: This position is remote, open to candidates with pre-existing authorization to work in Singapore. Please send a resume and brief cover letter or email explaining your relevant background and interest to [e-mail]. The deadline to apply is 13 February 2026.

Overview

Based in Singapore, the Principal will lead Save the Children’s impact investing activities in Asia Pacific, with a special focus on health and companies whose products and services generate deep impact for children.

A core part of a new and innovative team, this role will be instrumental in building Save the Children’s reputation and networks in the impact investing ecosystem in Asia, identifying investment opportunities specifically in the healthcare, nutrition and AI/data sectors, conducting due diligence and overseeing a robust investment portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Expand SCGV’s healthcare investing platform across the APAC region.
• Manage all aspects of an end-to-end early-stage venture capital transaction process across multiple funds, including opportunity identification, transaction origination, due diligence, structuring, documentation, investment committee approval and closing the transaction.
• Lead technical due diligence on companies offering primary care access, medical tech and device innovations, AI-based, digital diagnostics, medical and nutritional supply chain and infrastructure.
• Carry out commercial and operational due diligence, financial analysis and valuation studies on prospective venture capital investments.
• Develop partnerships and relationships with external parties such as accelerators, co-investors and entrepreneurs, specifically but not limited to the health and AI sectors.
• Prepare commercial and impact reports and related materials for approval at Investment Committee and Board meetings for the Save the Children Impact Fund and Asia Healthcare Fund.
• Oversee and support healthcare portfolio companies across the Asia Healthcare Fund and Ave the Children Asia Healthcare Fund and Multiplier Fund. Help founders grow their business/ventures, measure and report on impact, and tap into the vast resources that the Save the Children’s network offers. This may include strategic advise to founders, board role duties and assisting with commercial negotiations.
• Lead portfolio reviews and continuously improve the portfolio management process.
• Build and leverage a network in the impact investing space, representing Save the Children at key events and expanding our presence.

Health, safety, security and risk management

• Prioritise safety and security, complying with workplace safety policies and reporting incidents, injuries, and potential hazards promptly.
• Identify and manage risks associated with team programs and workplaces, implementing appropriate risk mitigation measures.

Child protection and safeguarding requirements

• Maintain a child safe work environment and safeguard children’s rights, acting in the best interests of children at all times.
• Comply with child safeguarding and protection policies and standards.
• Demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour towards children in your private and professional life.
• Never abuse the position of trust that comes with being a part of the Save the Children family.
• Maintain a safe and positive relationship at all times when working with children and young people.
• Respond to any concerns for the safety or wellbeing of a child in a program in accordance with internal reporting processes.
• Ensure staff have completed background checks and are trained in child safeguarding in line with organisational and program requirements.

Qualifications

• Expertise in health-sector investing, and past exposure to some or all areas of interest to SCGV including healthcare access (AI/ Telehealth), food as medicine (nutrition and supply chains), upskilling frontline healthcare workers (digital solutions and AI assisted medical devices) and unmet healthcare needs (including women’s health, mental health and climate exacerbated disease), primary care access, medical tech and device innovations, AI-based, digital diagnostics, medical and nutritional supply chain and infrastructure. We welcome candidates from both healthcare and investing backgrounds.
• A proven track record of successful deal sourcing with the ability to recommend favourable transactions with strong reasoning.
• Direct experience working with management on strategy and the ability to track and monitor company progress.
• Experience in using financial models, valuing early-stage companies, interpreting company financial statements.
• Persuasive, clear and concise written and oral communication skills, including experience in writing due diligence reports and investment committee memos.
• Experience working in one or more Asian innovation hubs (e.g. Singapore) with networks across Asia.
• Passionate about improving healthcare for underserved children.
• Avid interest in new technologies, AI, start-ups and entrepreneurship.
• Enthusiasm to meet, build relationships and debate views with the team, founders, other investors and experts and to learn from subject matter experts.
• Ability to understand new markets/products and quickly identify features and potential benefits.
• Curious by nature, driven to continual learning on a personal and professional level with a keen eye for detail.
• Self-motivated and comfortable working in a dynamic start-up setting alongside remote colleagues all over the world.
• Prolific AI user and comfortable leveraging tools such as Perplexity to expand efficiency.

Required Qualifications and/or Accreditations

• 8 years of work experience across Healthtech and/or Private Equity, Venture capital, M&A, Impact investing or a related field
• Under-graduate degree in a related field e.g. Commerce or Science

Save the Children Global Ventures (SCGV) is Save the Children’s impact investing and innovative finance platform, established in 2022 to mobilise high-impact capital and leverage Save the Children’s global delivery platform to solve some of the most critical problems facing children. To do so, our team oversees a portfolio of impact investment funds and utilises other innovative structures to catalyse private funders into deep-impact investment opportunities.

SCGV advises two commercially-structured Save the Children impact funds: an Australian Fund established in 2019 (SCIF) and the Generation Empowerment Fund, focused on Africa. SCGV also advises a venture philanthropy fund, the Multiplier Fund, which has made five healthcare investments including: ThinkMD, Amparo, PrimaKu and Vieberg. SCGV is launching a third, early-stage healthcare fund focused on SE Asia. This new Fund targets venture capital-level returns and seeks to generate clear and direct children’s impact, guided by our proprietary Child-Lens Investment Framework.