Manager of Educational Funding

RedBalloon; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Veritas Press is seeking a Manager of Educational Funding to expand family access through scholarships, ESA programs, and school-choice initiatives. You will own funding growth, navigate federal and state funding landscapes, and drive enrollment growth across Veritas programs.

The role requires entrepreneurial leadership, strategic fundraising, and the ability to coordinate with internal teams and external partners to optimize funding opportunities for families.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading or growing educational funding programs.
• Strong strategic communication and fundraising abilities.
• Ability to coordinate with cross-functional teams and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Own growth strategy for educational funding and scholarships.
• Build partnerships with SGOs, states, and donors.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, and Academic teams.
• Drive enrollment growth through funding initiatives.

Job description

Company: Veritas Press

Job Summary

The Manager of Educational Funding will play a central role in expanding family access to Veritas through scholarship programs, educational funding initiatives, and school-choice opportunities. This role will serve as the strategic owner of Veritas's educational funding growth efforts, helping families navigate alternative funding pathways while increasing scholarship participation and funding availability. The position combines growth strategy, relationship development, program ownership, and cross-functional coordination to support enrollment growth and long-term accessibility across Veritas programs. The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial builder, strong communicator and fundraiser who can operate strategically, manage complex initiatives, and proactively identify opportunities within the rapidly evolving educational funding landscape.

Responsibilities

Federal Tax Credit Growth & Management

• Grow tax-credit-directed scholarship funding through the preferred SGO (Scholarship Granting Organization) through outreach, communication, and donor engagement.
• Increase awareness and utilization of tax credit funding opportunities with new families.
• Coordinate strategy, implementation, and ongoing management of federal tax credit initiatives.
• Build and maintain relationships with SGOs and related partners.

Educational Savings Account (ESA) & School Choice Program Ownership

• Monitor ESA and school-choice developments across key states and programs.
• Coordinate with external agency partners and internal teams regarding implementation and communication.
• Develop and maintain family and internal team understanding and utilization of ESA funding opportunities.
• Ensure Veritas remains strategically positioned within the expanding school-choice landscape.

Scholarship Growth Initiatives

• Support growth of Paideia scholarship assets through donor and institutional outreach.
• Partner with Marketing to develop communication and storytelling around scholarship impact and educational access.
• Identify opportunities to expand scholarship participation and accessibility.
• Collaborate with leadership on scholarship growth strategy and funding priorities.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner closely with the VP of Marketing & Sales to bring strategic initiatives to life.
• Work cross-functionally with Sales and Academic teams to ensure educational access processes are known and documented.
• Serve as the internal advocate for educational access and funding initiatives.

Requirements Of All Employees

• Use your best efforts and full capability daily to do the work assigned to you by your manager.
• Advise your manager if you do not understand the work they have assigned to you, or if the assignment does not fit with your knowledge of the circumstances, current skills or available time and resources.
• Advise your manager of any situations or obstacles that could keep you from accomplishing the work assigned to you.
• Advise your manager of any situations or opportunities that could help you complete or improve the work assigned to you.
• Demonstrate work behaviors consistent with the company values and work within prescribed boundaries, including company policies, standards, or procedures.
• Seek special consideration from your manager when unable to work at your best.

Requirements For All Managers

• Conduct regular meetings with all immediate subordinate employees to discuss overall business context, plans, and problems; ensure employees understand how their roles and tasks align with the organization's mission and vision; seek input and suggestions from subordinate employees.
• Develop a managerial plan for achieving departmental and unit goals.
• Assign tasks, projects, or special assignments clearly so employees know what is required of them, how much, by when, and what resources are available for them to use to achieve the task.
• Appraise how effectively subordinate employees use their judgment and discretion in solving problems; discuss appraisals with them as an ongoing working dialogue.
• Decide subordinate pay and merit increases within established organization compensation guidelines; communicate pay revisions with them.
• Coach subordinates to increase their effectiveness in role.
• Select new employees from a list of job candidates provided by the immediate manager; veto appointments when candidates are judged to be unable to do the work required.
• Ensure that new employees are effectively oriented and trained into role requirements, working relationships, and company requirements and culture.
• Make de-selection decisions if employees cannot perform the work required and inform own manager.
• Make dismissal decisions if employees are found guilty of a serious infraction of the company's rules and regulations and inform own manager.
• Continuously improve the systems and processes used to deliver outputs.
• Request additional staff from own manager.
• Decide on and/or approve subordinate requests for:
  • Time off
  • Work schedules
  • Training and education
  • Expenses