"Senior Research Scientist - Private Markets (Center for Sustainable Business)"

The Stern CSB Mission and Team

New York University’s Stern Center for Sustainable Business (Stern CSB) aims to create a Better World Through Better Business.

Businesses operate in a constantly changing ecosystem that features fewer resources, a warmer climate, increased social inequity, as well as more engaged stakeholders and increased transparency. Business leaders must understand how these shifts impact their business and find innovative solutions to societal challenges while maintaining financial performance.

The NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business (CSB) was founded on the principle that sustainable business is good business, and is proving the value of sustainability for business management and performance at a time when people and the planet need it most. At CSB, we aim to help future and current business leaders embrace proactive and innovative mainstreaming of sustainability, resulting in competitive advantage and resiliency for their companies as well as a positive impact for society.

CSB's research is anchored in understanding the value drivers underlying sustainability practices across industries, and we have turned that lens to private equity. Extensive interviews and consulting with GPs and LPs have informed the creation of frameworks and tools that help investors and portfolio companies identify material sustainability-related risk and opportunities, and develop strategies to create new enterprise value.

Your Contribution to the NYU Stern CSB

In joining the NYU Stern CSB team as a Senior Research Scientist, you will be working directly with the Founding and current Directors of CSB as well as other research colleagues at CSB to lead our research into sustainability-linked value creation in private markets.

Responsibilities

• With support from the Founding Director, lead engagement and outreach with GPs to help them implement the CSB GP value driver tool and ROSI in their portfolios
• Working with the ROSI team, develop additional tools and insights to help GPs and their portfolio companies generate sustainability-linked value creation
• Explore opportunities for CSB to develop sustainability-linked value creation tools and case studies for private credit
• With support from the Founding Director, lead engagement and outreach with LPs to help them implement the CSB LP value creation tool
• Collaborate with LP and GP partner groups, as well as other stakeholders (e.g. PEZMET, ILPA, CERES, ADL and UNPRI) to drive uptake of our research
• Lead thought leadership initiatives, such as organizing the annual private equity forum, and write articles and reports to disseminate research

Benefits of Working with CSB

As an employee of New York University and the Stern CSB, you will enjoy a competitive salary and generous benefits package that includes health care coverage, and 403b retirement savings. In addition, you will work with a collaborative team of sustainability professionals in an intellectually stimulating environment that offers ample opportunity for personal and professional growth.

Wage Transparency

In compliance with NYC’s Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $100,000-$250,000. New York University considers factors such as (but not limited to) the specific grant funding and the terms of the research grant when extending an offer.

Given the expectations described above, you should have 15+ years? experience in finance. You should be an excellent communicator (verbally and in writing) and manage multiple on-going projects and priorities in a fast-paced work environment. You should also have a commitment to and passion for sustainable business and bring fresh ideas for research designed to drive and support change by practitioners.

Please submit a cover letter, resume, and two references to Interfolio for consideration.