[Hiring] VP of Philanthropy @Scholars of Finance

Role Description

The Vice President of Philanthropy owns individual giving and engagement at Scholars of Finance — the strategy, the relationships, the team, and the results. This is a builder’s role: you will turn a founder-led fundraising and engagement effort into a durable, scalable institution, while personally carrying a portfolio of high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth donors and leading the team that grows that engine over time. You will advise leaders on how they invest their time, talent, and treasure. You build the motion for engaging hundreds of leaders and volunteers and funders. You will own donor relationships end-to-end, deploying our CEO and Board as closing assets on your timeline.

This role is a rare opportunity to take a proven nonprofit with a $10M+ track record and world-class backers and build the individual giving and engagement function that will carry it to the next order of magnitude. The starting salary for this role is $150K-$170K. This leader will report to the CEO and serve on our Executive Team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in nonprofit fundraising, major gifts, or philanthropy linked to finance, education, leadership development, or mission-driven organizations.
• 3+ years building, managing, and developing high-performing teams across multiple workstreams and timelines.
• Evidence of sourcing, closing, and stewarding major gifts and ownership of a significant relationship portfolio — and the appetite to build the function that scales it.
• Proven experience building systems, teams, processes, stewarding hundreds of relationships of various types (e.g., donating, volunteering, advising).
• Exceptional written and verbal communication. You write with precision and speed and serve as a credible, compelling face of the organization with affluent leaders.
• Proven ability to set and execute a fundraising or revenue strategy with clear goals, data-driven decisions, and measurable outcomes.
• Proven comfort with working on a fully-remote team, and the ability to travel up to 10-20% of the time for off-sites and donor meetings.

Requirements

• Experience building and running an operating cadence that drives execution: priorities, metrics, accountability, and adaptation.
• Ability to lead through others across full-time staff, interns, contractors, and senior stakeholders.
• Strong people leadership: you coach, set clear expectations, build followership, and develop others into successful fundraisers or revenue operations and analytics talent.
• Proven capacity as a "Multiplier": you know how to multiply the intelligence of your team and get the best from people.

Benefits

• 401(k) match (100% match up to 5% of the base salary)
• Generous health, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO; all federal holidays off
• Quarterly team offsites, expenses fully paid when in-person
• High-growth culture to accelerate your professional development
• A unique company ensuring all team members thrive holistically
• $150,000 - $170,000 a year