About The Rock Creek Group:

Launched in 2002 by President and CEO Afsaneh Beschloss, The Rock Creek Group is the largest woman-founded global investment and advisory firm. With offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City, the firm is dedicated to an institutional client base that includes public and corporate pension plans, university endowments, charitable foundations and sovereign wealth funds. Our service to clients is grounded in a culture of strong strategic partnership and rigorous process coupled with an analytic platform of our own design – Rock Creek Solutions – that facilitates successful and well-documented investment decisions. Rock Creek offers a range of multi-asset class, emerging and frontier market and alternative strategies. Rock Creek team members have a long history of investing in ESG and sustainable investing.

Our Team:

Investors need deep global and diversified talent and experience behind their investments. Our team has extensive training and experience in a broad array of investment disciplines: portfolio construction, asset management, due diligence, risk management, compliance, trading, operations, information systems, theoretical and applied mathematics, physics, law and economics. We come from all over the world, and we are proud of our diversity in national origin, gender, culture, and life experience. We share a deep conviction that able, energetic, and principled professionals can achieve outstanding results.

Our Values:

We strongly value openness, transparency, partnership, and knowledge sharing. Many of our colleagues have been CIOs, investment team professionals, and board and investment committee members of foundations, pension plans, and sovereign funds. We are all keenly sensitive to the complexities and needs of institutional investors and to the importance of accountability, responsibility, and governance.

The Rock Creek Group is looking for students who are curious about the world of finance, have a desire to acquire hands-on experience, and are comfortable working in a flat, tight-knit team environment. You will learn from experts in Hedge Fund diligence, risk management, emerging market investing, and portfolio management from prime office space in Dupont Circle.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Develop an understanding of the inner workings of an institutional asset management firm
• Receive personalized attention from senior partners and analysts of The Rock Creek Group
• Receive valuable Bloomberg Terminal training and experience 
• Assist the investment and emerging markets teams in performing investment diligence and strategy papers
• Participate in meaningful ‘deep-dive’ projects across the risk, investment, and emerging markets teams
• Participate in meetings with some of the industry’s most famous and successful Hedge Fund managers

What We’re Looking For

• A stellar academic record with a well-rounded set of extra-curricular and/or athletic experiences
• An interest in (and preferably a familiarity with) investing, financial markets, and global economics, and geopolitics
• Competence using Microsoft Excel 
• Strong writing and communication skills 
• A problem solving and positive team-oriented approach to projects

What You’ll Get

• Competitive compensation and personalized attention with a dedicated mentor
• Unique exposure to the global financial markets 
• Collaborative team environment 
• Prime office space steps from Georgetown, the White House, Dupont Circle, and the National Mall & Monuments