VP of Philanthropy

Job Summary

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.

Scholars of Finance is a rapidly growing organization on a mission to transform our economic system to help make the world a better place. We are sending thousands of purpose‑driven, principled future leaders into the finance industry to positively influence the trillions of dollars it manages and allocates. College is the entry point into finance, so we provide leadership development to undergraduates and help them secure roles in finance where they can effect systemic change.

Since 2019, we've raised $12M+ and impacted 7,000+ students across 60+ universities, and we're just getting started. We're a close, motivated team with a big vision of a future where all finance leaders steward the world's capital with integrity, humility, compassion, and excellence. We are fortunate to be backed by world‑class Founding Partners such as Black Rock, Goldman Sachs, KKR, and U.S. Bank, and are being advised by incredible industry leaders to achieve our mission.

• Grow annual revenue from $2.5M to $10M+ by 2030, building the individual-giving engine that empowers us to deepen our impact, grow our team, and scale our mission to transform finance.
• Inspire hundreds of high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals across private equity, venture capital, investment banking, asset management, and beyond to invest their time, talent, and treasure in our mission.
• Turn a founder‑led fundraising and volunteer engagement effort into a durable, scalable institution — with the team, systems, and discipline to compound results year over year.
• Scale the only organization in the world developing purpose‑driven, principled future finance leaders with the character to steward the world's capital for good.

• Be a member of the Executive Team of this organization, build our culture, and steer us toward achieving our mission to transform finance.
• Set the vision, goals, and operating cadence for individual fundraising and volunteer engagement, aligned to strategy, revenue, and program outcomes.
• Own the number — the pipeline, the forecast, and the path to it — steering fundraising and volunteer engagement efforts day to day across our organization.
• Build and run the fundraising operating system (KPIs, dashboards, meeting rhythms, pipeline reviews) that gives leadership a clear view of performance and projections.
• Manage budget and resourcing, anticipating seasonal shifts in donor activity and adjusting plans accordingly.

• Take on and coach two direct reports, one fundraiser and one revenue operations manager, and strengthen their performance and output.
• Build, coach, and develop a high‑performing fundraising team that multiplies our collective velocity rather than carrying it alone.
• Establish the systems, cadence, and accountability that enable individual giving and engagement to grow nonlinearly as the team expands.
• Build a culture of trust, ownership, and continuous improvement among the people you lead — across both fundraisers and operations team members.
• Work closely with Partnership,…