Vice President of Lending

Reporting Relationships

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.

Lending Strategy, Performance & Growth

• 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.

Capitalization Strategies and Partnership Development

• Develop capitalization strategies and secure new lending resources through financial institutions, investors, philanthropic organizations, and public funding partners.
• Cultivate strategic relationships with financial institutions, investors, government agencies, developers, foundations, and community partners.
• Structure strategic financing partnerships, including participations, co-lending arrangements, credit enhancements, and other collaborative capital solutions.
• Partner with the Chief Financial Officer to ensure lending products are appropriately priced, capital resources are optimized, and financial sustainability is maintained.

Team Leadership & Organizational Strengthening

• Provide strategic oversight of lending operations to ensure efficient, scalable, and customer-focused processes.
• Ensure lending systems, policies, procedures, and internal controls support organizational growth and operational excellence.
• Promote a collaborative culture across all Intend initiatives to ensure lending is aligned with and advances overall organizational goals.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing lending organization by building capacity, fostering accountability, and supporting succession planning.
• Ensure appropriate governance practices, internal controls, and accountability systems are maintained across all lending functions.
• Develop and oversee policies and procedures to support credit quality, risk mitigation, portfolio performance, and regulatory compliance of lending activities.
• Champion continuous improvement by implementing technology, automation, and operational enhancements that improve efficiency, service quality, and reporting capabilities.
• Establish annual performance goals and accountability measures for lending production, portfolio performance, financial results, and community impact.

We recognize that strong candidates may bring these capabilities through a variety of professional experiences, including CDFIs, banking, community development, affordable housing, economic development, public finance, philanthropy, impact investing, government, or other lending and financial institutions. Candidates are not expected to have experience in every area listed below. We are interested in how an individual’s collective experience, leadership approach, and demonstrated results position them to help strengthen and grow Intend Indiana’s lending platform.

• Capital Formation & Financial Partnerships. Experience developing or supporting strategies that increase access to lending capital and strengthen an organization’s financial capacity. Relevant experience may include raising or managing debt capital, program-related investments, deposits, grants, investor capital, credit facilities, or other sources of funding; developing bank or investor partnerships; negotiating participation or co-lending arrangements; and cultivating relationships with financial institutions, foundations, government agencies, or institutional investors.
• Growth & Scaling of Lending Operations. Experience helping an organization, lending platform, business line, or program grow in size, reach, sophistication, or impact. This might include expanding a loan portfolio, entering new markets, introducing new products, improving systems and processes, building teams, increasing lending capacity, or supporting geographic expansion. We value candidates who can demonstrate how they contributed to meaningful organizational growth, not simply maintained an existing operation.
• Lending, Credit & Deal Structuring. Strong understanding of lending fundamentals, credit, underwriting, portfolio management, and risk. Experience with more complex financing structures is valuable and may include loan participations, co-lending, credit enhancements, public-private financing, NMTC, LIHTC, government-supported lending, impact investing, bond financing, or other layered capital structures. Candidates do not need experience with every financing tool; the ability to understand, evaluate, and structure increasingly complex transactions is important.
• Leadership & Talent Development Experience leading teams and developing other leaders. This may include managing managers or senior professionals, building or restructuring teams, recruiting and developing talent, establishing accountability and performance expectations, creating meaningful KPIs or dashboards, and fostering collaboration across departments. We are particularly interested in leaders who can build capacity in others rather than relying solely on their own technical expertise.
• Mission-Oriented or Community Finance Experience connecting lending and investment decisions to community or economic outcomes. Relevant backgrounds may include CDFIs, community or commercial banking, affordable housing finance, small-business lending, housing finance agencies, economic development organizations, community development corporations, public-sector finance, or other mission-oriented institutions. An understanding of how to balance mission, financial sustainability, credit quality, compliance, and impact is especially valuable.
• Strategic Relationship Building. Ability to develop trusted relationships with a broad range of partners and stakeholders. This may include banks, foundations, investors, government agencies, developers, small businesses, community organizations, CDFIs, industry associations, and other financial or community development partners. Existing networks are valuable, but equally important is demonstrated ability to build new relationships and translate those relationships into meaningful partnerships.
• Building & Leading Through Change. Experience building something new or leading through organizational growth and change. Examples may include launching a division or fund, integrating lending functions, entering a new market, redesigning an operating model, strengthening lending infrastructure, or helping an organization transition to its next stage of growth.
• Strategy & Execution. Ability to move between big-picture thinking and implementation. The VP of Lending will need to help shape lending strategy while also ensuring that the people, capital, systems, policies, partnerships, and accountability structures are in place to execute it. Strong candidates will be able to describe situations in which they helped turn an idea or strategic objective into measurable results.
• Risk, Portfolio & Financial Stewardship. Demonstrated judgment regarding credit risk, portfolio performance, compliance, financial sustainability, and responsible growth. Relevant experience may include portfolio oversight, credit policy, loan committees, asset quality, delinquency management, loss mitigation, concentration risk, loan servicing, regulatory or funder compliance, or development of risk-management practices appropriate to a growing lending organization.
• Results & Impact Orientation. A track record of using data and measurable outcomes to assess performance and inform decisions. Depending on prior roles, results might include capital raised, portfolio growth, borrowers served, businesses financed, affordable housing supported, geographic expansion, revenue generated, improved portfolio performance, reduced losses, new partnerships, or other measurable community and financial outcomes.
• Collaborative & Enterprise Leadership. Ability to lead lending as part of a broader organization rather than as a stand-alone function. The VP should be able to work across teams, identify opportunities for lending to support broader organizational and community strategies and balance the needs and priorities of multiple lending products, programs, partners, and markets.

Minimum Experience, Education, Degrees and Licenses

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, Economics, Real Estate, Public Administration, or a related field required, or a minimum of ten years of progressive leadership experience in commercial lending, affordable housing finance, community development finance, banking, capital markets, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success structuring capital and managing relationships with financial institutions, investors, philanthropic organizations, and public funding partners.
• Proven experience leading the growth of a lending organization or portfolio.
• Experience structuring complex financing transactions involving multiple funding sources and publicprivate partnerships.
• Strong knowledge of credit, underwriting, portfolio management, and risk oversight.
• Excellent strategic planning, communication, negotiation, and relationship management skills.

Preferred Experience, Education, Degrees and Licenses

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Public Administration, Real Estate, or a related field preferred.
• Experience working within a CDFI, community development bank, housing finance agency, or similar mission-driven lending organization.
• Experience with affordable housing finance programs including LIHTC, HOME, NMTC, Capital Magnet Fund, Bond Guarantee, or similar federal and state initiatives.
• Experience with participations, structured finance, credit enhancements, or other collaborative financing models.
• Knowledge of nonprofit finance and experience developing innovative lending products or expanding lending into new markets.

Location

Indianapolis, IN

Compensation

The compensation range for this position is $120,000-$140,000 in addition to a comprehensive benefits package.

Applicants as well as employees who are or become disabled must be able to perform the essential duties and responsibilities either unaided or with reasonable accommodation. The organization shall determine reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis in accordance with applicable law.

Intend Indiana provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, or non- disqualifying physical or mental disability in accordance with all federal, state, and local regulations.

Applications close Priority will be given to applications submitted by November 20th although we will continue to receive and review applications until the position is filled.

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