Vice President of Lending - Intend Indiana

Indianapolis, IN

Job Description:
This position reports to the President and leads the full lending platform
Direct Reports include:

• Director of Build Fund
• Director of Edge Fund

The Vice President of Lending (VP) is a newly created position and provides strategic leadership for Intend Indiana’s lending platform. The VP is responsible for its overall growth, performance, and long-term sustainability. Serving as a member of the Senior Leadership Team, the VP oversees lending strategy, capitalization, portfolio performance, product development, lending operations, and external partnerships.
The VP strengthens organizational capacity by developing high-performing teams, cultivating strategic capital relationships, aligning lending opportunities with demand, and ensuring the organization’s overall sustainability and growth across all initiatives remains financially strong while advancing its mission.
The incoming VP will join Intend at a moment of significant opportunity and continued growth. Intend has rapidly grown into a statewide community development organization by building strong reputation through trusted partnerships, innovative approaches, and a demonstrated commitment to community impact. With a diversified funding base and an expanding array of financing tools, Intend is well positioned to broaden its reach and leverage new sources of capital.

The Vice President of Lending will play a critical leadership role in strengthening and aligning Intend's lending strategies, expanding lending opportunities for small businesses and affordable housing, and advancing financial sustainability. This role will also help identify opportunities to leverage Intend's broader community development activities and partnerships to maximize investment and impact across Indiana.
The VP will lead that work by simplifying overlapping products, designing how capital is grown and deployed across both funds, and building a team that is expected to grow significantly. As a member of senior leadership, they will work collaboratively to help set a 5–10-year strategy built on intentional growth, and serve as a leading voice with foundations, funders, investors, and communities who all make the work possible.
This is an exceptional opportunity to join an organization dedicated to combining commercial, and affordable housing development, financing, and capital markets in a high-impact and coordinated way to advance community development and neighborhood revitalization. The successful candidate will be entrepreneurial and forward thinking, and will have demonstrated experience in diverse and creative fund development, creating mission-aligned partnerships, and building high-performing teams.

• Lead the strategic direction and long-term growth of Intend’s lending platform, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and statewide objectives.
• Provide strategic oversight of Intend’s lending portfolio to ensure responsible growth, strong financial performance, and effective capital deployment.
• Develop and execute multi-year strategies for portfolio growth, capitalization, operational excellence, and organizational sustainability.
• Develop key performance indicators that measure financial performance, portfolio quality, operational efficiency, customer outcomes, and mission impact.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of lending programs and recommend strategic adjustments based on organizational priorities, market conditions, and performance results.
• Regularly report lending performance, portfolio trends, capital deployment, and strategic initiatives to executive leadership and the Board of Directors.

• Develop…