What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sustainability Intern position at Opportunities?
Crow Holdings is a leading real estate investment and development firm founded in 1948 and based in Dallas, Texas. With 20 offices across the U.S., Crow Holdings’ local, on-the-ground presence amplifies its hands-on capabilities across a broad range of investment strategies, product types, and ventures in partnership with institutional investors. Crow Holdings has $30 billion in assets under management, one of the largest multifamily and industrial development platforms in the nation, investments across the energy sector including solar and battery storage projects, and a broad, diversified investment portfolio, pursuing compelling investment opportunities to capitalize on evolving, secular growth potential. For 75 years, Crow Holdings’ success has been rooted in its founding principles of partnership, collaboration, and alignment of interests. For more information, please visit: www.crowholdings.com.
Position Summary
Crow Holdings seeks a highly motivated Sustainability Intern to join the team in Dallas, TX. This position will involve cross-functional collaboration with sustainability, investment management, and investor relation teams, providing valuable insights to guide decisions related to strategy, operations, and ongoing initiatives for asset-level value creation. Additionally, the intern will apply AI-driven insights to enhance operational efficiencies and ESG reporting across the real estate portfolio. Primary responsibilities included but are not limited to:
Primary Responsibilities
- Provide environmental performance data analysis (energy, water, greenhouse gas emissions, waste, physical climate risk, etc.)
- Prepare submissions and data analyses related to leading ESG ratings/rankings to ensure data accuracy and completeness, including but not limited to GRESB, UNPRI, and CDP
- Develop sustainability content for internal and external communications, as well as content for intranet, external website, investor presentations, Q&A documents and event briefing documents
- Research and develop reports on sustainability trends impacting the company, customers and other stakeholders, and complete benchmarking projects with recommendations on opportunities for continuous improvement
- Support the Director of Sustainability in executing the sustainability strategy and program and tracking of progress against the company’s sustainability goals and metrics
- Assist with development of sustainability initiatives, projects, and strategies based on financial modeling to improve sustainability performance
Desired Skills & Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree (Preferred Business Management, Real Estate, Economics, Finance, Data Analytics, or ESG/Sustainability), Graduating Spring 2026 or pursuing an MBA
- Experience working in ESG and sustainability, including knowledge of ESG frameworks and ratings such as GRESB, GRI, UNPRI, and CDP preferred
- Ability to compare, compute, compile, copy, analyze, coordinate, synthesize, instruct and communicate.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to prioritize and work both independently and with a team
- Eagerness to accept new challenges and bring new ideas to the table
- Critical thinker nimble with financial analysis and numerical data with a focus on concrete and quantitative back-up for positions taken
- Builds effective relationships, inspires and builds trust among team and internal and external stakeholders
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills (i.e., Excel (advanced formulas, pivot tables, macros), Word, PowerPoint, Teams)
- Experience working with Real Estate focused ESG and/or energy management software platforms (i.e. EnergyStar Portfolio Manager, Measurbl, etc)
- Experience with programming languages and AI models
- Passion for sustainability and green buildings
