VP, Americas & Europe Practice

Village Capital; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Life insurance

401(k) retirement plan with 3% match

Fully remote work environment

Flexible paid time off

Annual professional development allot

Annual wellness allowance

Remote work stipend

Monthly cell phone and internet Reimb.

Job summary

Village Capital is seeking a Vice President to lead its Americas and Europe portfolio in a senior, externally visible leadership role. The role focuses on fundraising, partnership management, and managing regionally distributed teams to support investment transactions and entrepreneur programs.

The position reports to the CEO and requires a deep understanding of early-stage capital, blended finance, and multi-stakeholder program design across diverse regions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of investment experience in banking, entrepreneurship, impact investing, or international development.
• Demonstrated track record in building and running multi-stakeholder lines of business.
• Proven ability in fundraising, proposals, and stewarding long-term funder commitments.
• Experience managing distributed teams across cultures and geographies.
• Understanding of the tools, structures, and language of venture, blended, and philanthropic capital.
• Experience in the investment space from either entrepreneur or investor perspective is preferred.
• Culturally fluent with a commitment to equity in daily work.
• Comfortable operating at a strategic level while spotting risk early.

Responsibilities

• Drive integrated strategy across the United States with regional delivery oversight aligning investment and entrepreneur support.
• Identify and advance strategic funding and financing opportunities across regions.
• Coordinate with regional teams to allocate resources and share learnings with a one Village Capital approach.
• Represent Village Capital as senior regional portfolio lead internally and externally.
• Partner with communications, business development, finance, data, impact, and regional teams to ensure integrated execution.
• Stay current on trends in entrepreneurship, venture capital, blended finance, and philanthropy relevant to the region.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and business development in collaboration with the Business Development team.
• Cultivate and steward relationships with investors, foundations, corporations, governments, and funders.
• Oversee donor reporting, proposal development, and craft region-specific fundraising plans.

Skills

Investment experience

Strategic leadership

Business development

Team leadership

Early-stage investing

Cross-cultural collaboration

Strategic risk awareness

Job description

About Village Capital

Village Capital is a U.S. domiciled 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to delivering entrepreneur support programs and managing blended pools of investment capital. The organization operates at the intersection of social entrepreneurship and impact investing, providing comprehensive support systems for founders developing solutions to pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges globally. Since its founding in 2009, Village Capital has established itself as a significant player in the impact investing landscape. The organization has supported over 2,000 startups that have collectively raised more than $9 billion in follow-on investment capital. This track record demonstrates Village Capital’s effectiveness in identifying promising early-stage companies and connecting them with the resources necessary for scaling their impact and business operations. Village Capital is known for its innovative and evidence-based approaches to founder support and capital deployment. The organization combines traditional business development and technical assistance with access to blended capital structures that combine venture capital, philanthropic funding, debt instruments, and other innovative financing mechanisms. This approach recognizes that early-stage social and environmental enterprises often require capital structures that extend beyond traditional venture funding to effectively serve underserved markets and achieve both financial sustainability and measurable social impact. The organization maintains a global presence with operations spanning multiple regions and markets. Village Capital’s work focuses on unlocking both social and financial capital for early-stage companies, with the explicit goal of maximizing both business growth and positive impact outcomes. The organization’s team brings together professionals with expertise in venture capital, impact investing, international development, ecosystem development, and nonprofit management.

About this Role

Village Capital is seeking a Vice President to lead its Americas and Europe portfolio in a senior, externally visible leadership role. This position is designed for an experienced investment professional with a proven track record in fundraising and partnership relationship management. The role has an anticipated duration of 12 months based on funding availability and reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer. The Vice President will serve as a trusted partner to funders, investors, government partners, and foundation leaders, balancing operational excellence with partnership growth as equally important, mutually reinforcing priorities. This leader will bring a solid understanding of the investment landscape, including the tools, structures, and language of early-stage investment capital spanning equity, debt, hybrid structures, blended capital, and philanthropic capital. This knowledge will complement their operational and business development leadership responsibilities across multiple regions. The Vice President will manage regionally distributed teams that lead both investment transactions and direct entrepreneur support initiatives. They must demonstrate fluency in overseeing and driving strategy that effectively mobilizes capital to entrepreneurs across diverse regions with distinct market dynamics and needs. The ideal candidate will delegate with confidence, develop the capabilities of their team members, and hold teams accountable without micromanaging. They will be multidisciplinary, equally comfortable in investor meetings and program design sessions with donors, and will bring a systems-change approach to problem-solving across all contexts.

Responsibilities

• Drive integrated strategy across the United States with operational oversight of delivery teams across regions, ensuring effective alignment between investment and entrepreneur support approaches and coherence between regional priorities and Village Capital’s global strategy
• Identify and advance strategic funding and financing opportunities within and across the regions, surfacing insights and recommendations as a member of the organizational leadership
• Actively coordinate with regional and functional teams and leadership, collaborating on resource allocation and strategy, sharing learnings, and operating with a ‘one VilCap’ mindset to ensure seamless integration across teams and support organizational objectives
• Serve as Village Capital’s senior representative for the regional-wide portfolio, both internally and externally
• Partner with cross-functional colleagues in communications, business development, finance, data and impact, and other regional teams to ensure integrated and quality execution
• Stay current on trends in entrepreneurship, venture capital, innovative finance, philanthropic capital, and blended finance relevant to the region
• Lead strategic stakeholder engagement and business development in collaboration with the Business Development team
• Cultivate and steward relationships with investors, foundations, corporations, governments, and funders
• Partner with the Business Development team on proposal development and donor reporting, and with the Communications team on pitch materials and case studies for organizational offerings; provide strategic and budget input on new proposals
• Co-develop regional and sectoral fundraising strategy and maintain a clear fundraising roadmap for the regions
• Support efforts to secure long-term commitments and expand revenue across the entire portfolio
• Own end-to-end delivery of entrepreneur support programs and investment initiatives running concurrently, ensuring both are designed and executed at a high standard
• Own program and investment quality by reviewing and overseeing delivery standards, supporting direct reports with outputs management, and ensuring work meets organizational and funder expectations
• Oversee execution of investment transactions, provide feedback and guidance on investment decisions and transaction structuring, and improve due diligence processes and investment frameworks as needed
• Ensure efficient, flexible resource allocation across initiatives as priorities and needs shift
• Evaluate the effectiveness of investment strategy and entrepreneur support, and contribute to organization-wide learning
• Own budgets and expenditure priorities for key operational areas
• Collaborate with delivery teams and internal working groups to keep curricula sharp and regionally relevant
• Manage and support a geographically distributed team, including entrepreneur support delivery staff, investment staff, and contractors
• Coach and develop direct reports; run regular one-on-one check-ins and performance conversations
• Delegate effectively, matching work to team members’ capacity, priorities, and development goals
• Build a culture of learning, accountability, and leadership development
• Maintain strategic oversight of ecosystem engagement across regions, including Village Capital alumni and portfolio networks, investor relationships, and expert collaborator networks
• Represent Village Capital at key ecosystem convenings and working groups relevant to the regions
• Oversee thought leadership content representing your portfolio, providing direction and final review
• Lead development and review of region-specific reports for funders and stakeholders, providing oversight and quality assurance rather than direct synthesis
• Ensure reporting is supported by the right people and tools, addressing capacity gaps as needed through outside consultants and third-party platform management

Requirements

• 8+ years of investment experience in banking, entrepreneurship, impact investing, or international development; entrepreneur support and ecosystem development a plus
• A track record of building and running complex, multi-stakeholder lines of business at a high standard
• Demonstrated track record in business development, including the ability to develop fundraising strategy, shape proposals, and steward multi-year funder commitments
• Experience managing and developing distributed teams across cultures and geographies
• Understanding of the early-stage investment landscape, the tools, structures, and language of venture, blended, and philanthropic capital
• Experience in the investment space, either from the entrepreneur or investor perspective; impact investing, venture capital, private credit, or DFI experience preferred
• Culturally fluent, with a real, day-to-day commitment to equity
• Comfortable operating at a strategic level while staying close enough to spot risk early

Benefits

• Base salary of $120,000 – $150,000, commensurate with skills and experience
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• Life insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with 3% employer match
• Fully remote work environment
• Flexible paid time off
• Annual professional development allowance
• Annual wellness allowance
• Remote work stipend
• Monthly cell phone and internet reimbursement