Role Overview 

  • Support Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management (“AWM”) Private in delivering on its inclusive growth commitments, with a focus on board and management diversity, employee engagement, DEI tools, broad-based ownership, and best practices and support for portfolio companies
  • Support broader sustainability initiatives through the Value Accelerator (a proprietary network of operating advisors focused on value-creation for GS AWM Private’s portfolio companies), including tracking value-creation as a result of key sustainability initiatives, development of training materials for portfolio companies, and organization of the sustainability vertical 
  • This role will report to the Head of Sustainability & Impact for AWM Private, Americas and work closely with AWM Private deal teams, portfolio companies, and the Value Accelerator 

Key Responsibilities: 

  • Manage the day-to-day program priorities and deliverables for the inclusive growth program and Value Accelerator (“VA”) sustainability initiatives
  • Support the development of the inclusive growth program to identify tools, capabilities and supporting communications, webinars, metrics, and case studies for the AWM Private Markets investing platform
  • Work closely with the Value Accelerator advisors, AWM Private Sustainability & Impact team, and deal teams on portfolio company inclusive growth and sustainability value-creation program delivery, including identifying resources to support key initiative and create best practice playbooks for each core initiative to kick-start portfolio company efforts and give companies a guide of how to begin/uplevel existing processes 
  • Collaborate with the ESG Business Leads to monitor and track sustainability and inclusive growth KPIs and program progress against key program priorities
  • Work closely with Alternative Capital Markets & Strategy Group (“ACMS”) on inclusive growth commitments for new funds and processes to track compliance with these commitments and KPIs of key initiatives 
  • Support the development of inclusive growth communication materials, including internal newsletters and training programs
  • Develop tracking processes to quantify value-creation of sustainability initiatives implemented across portfolio companies
  • Create case studies demonstrating execution of key sustainability initiatives

Qualifications: 

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and key skills: 

  • At least 3-5 years of experience working in DEI within a corporation or Financial Services
  • Collaborative, detail-oriented and organized with strong professional writing and presentation-creation skills
  • Thorough, mature, and professional
  • Able to manage various stakeholders, within AWM Private and more broadly, across GS 
  • A commitment to excellence, integrity and collaboration is a must 
  • Bachelor's Degree with a general preference for concentrations in Business Administration, Accounting, or Sustainability 
  • Experience in supporting a DEI program within a business context
  • Experience with ESG KPIs/metrics preferred 
  • Experience in Private Equity investing/industry a bonus
  • Strong experience with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word with some awareness of business intelligence software and software tools 

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $100000-$160000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.