What are the responsibilities and job description for the Real Assets Sustainability - Investment Management - Off-Cycle Intern position at Morgan Stanley?
Morgan Stanley Investment Management (“MSIM”), together with its investment advisory affiliates, has more than 1,300 investment professionals around the world and $1.9 trillion in assets under management or supervision as of December 31, 2025. MSIM strives to provide strong long-term investment performance, outstanding service and a comprehensive suite of investment management solutions to a diverse client base, which includes governments, institutions, corporations and individuals worldwide.
Morgan Stanley Real Assets (“MSRA”) is the global real assets investment management arm of Morgan Stanley. MSRA is comprised of four investment teams focused on private real estate equity, private infrastructure equity and private real assets credit strategies. With 20 offices in 13 countries throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia, regional teams of dedicated real assets professionals combine a unique global perspective with local presence and significant transaction execution expertise. As of December 31, 2025, MSRA manages $80 billion of investable capital worldwide.
Brief Description – About The Internship
During this internship, you will gain hands-on experience supporting sustainability initiatives across a global real assets platform, with a primary focus on real estate. You will work closely with the Sustainability team and collaborate with professionals across investment, asset management, and operations functions.
This role offers exposure to how sustainability is integrated throughout the investment lifecycle, from data collection and reporting to asset-level initiatives and investor communications. You will contribute to meaningful projects while developing a foundational understanding of sustainability practices within the real estate industry.
The ideal candidate is proactive, highly organized, and execution-focused. They will be comfortable operating with limited direction, synthesizing complex technical information into clear, executive-level communication, and driving initiatives forward across diverse teams. We are looking for someone who is outcome-oriented, collaborative, and energized by making things happen across a dynamic global investment platform.
Strategy & Integration
At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.
To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.
Expected base pay rates for the role will be $35 hourly at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.
Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.
For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.
Morgan Stanley Real Assets (“MSRA”) is the global real assets investment management arm of Morgan Stanley. MSRA is comprised of four investment teams focused on private real estate equity, private infrastructure equity and private real assets credit strategies. With 20 offices in 13 countries throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia, regional teams of dedicated real assets professionals combine a unique global perspective with local presence and significant transaction execution expertise. As of December 31, 2025, MSRA manages $80 billion of investable capital worldwide.
Brief Description – About The Internship
During this internship, you will gain hands-on experience supporting sustainability initiatives across a global real assets platform, with a primary focus on real estate. You will work closely with the Sustainability team and collaborate with professionals across investment, asset management, and operations functions.
This role offers exposure to how sustainability is integrated throughout the investment lifecycle, from data collection and reporting to asset-level initiatives and investor communications. You will contribute to meaningful projects while developing a foundational understanding of sustainability practices within the real estate industry.
The ideal candidate is proactive, highly organized, and execution-focused. They will be comfortable operating with limited direction, synthesizing complex technical information into clear, executive-level communication, and driving initiatives forward across diverse teams. We are looking for someone who is outcome-oriented, collaborative, and energized by making things happen across a dynamic global investment platform.
Strategy & Integration
- Support the team in implementing sustainability initiatives across the real estate portfolio
- For new acquisitions, help support sustainability due diligence, including review and quality checks
- Assist with tracking and supporting sustainability initiatives at the asset level
- Support sustainability data collection, quality checks, and data ingestion into tool
- Assist with investor reporting and benchmarking, including GRESB and other reporting frameworks (INREV)
- Complete investor sustainability requests across real estate funds
- Help prepare materials for investor meetings
- Conduct research on sustainability regulations, climate risks, and industry trends
- Help conduct climate risk screenings of real estate portfolios
- Assist in the development of content and coordination of internal sustainability training sessions
- Support the Sustainability team across ongoing projects
- Collaborate with team members across different functions to progress key sustainability topics
- Recently completed an undergraduate or graduate program in sustainability, environmental science, business, real estate, or a related field
- Strong interest in sustainability and the real estate industry
- Strong research and analytical skills, with ability to synthesize complex information and present conclusions clearly and effectively
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and work both independently and collaboratively
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, accountable, proactive, and outcomes-focused
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
- This internship is designed to run for an initial four-month duration
At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.
To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.
Expected base pay rates for the role will be $35 hourly at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.
Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.
For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.
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