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Vice President of Education Grantmaking

Employer
Ascendium Education Group, Inc.
Location
Madison, Wisconsin
Salary
$250,000 to $280,000
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Are you a highly experienced leader who has applied their breadth of content knowledge to transforming postsecondary education and workforce training systems? Are you a collaborative difference-maker who is adept at building relationships and guiding high-performing teams?
We’re seeking a Vice President of Education Grantmaking to oversee a funding strategy aimed at improving the lives of learners from low-income backgrounds. In this role, you'll leverage your expertise, creativity, interpersonal intelligence, and analytic skills to guide strategic grantmaking of approximately $150 million annually. You'll amplify and represent Ascendium's philanthropic priorities through strategic external engagement and help to foster collaboration across the organization in service of our mission.
Ideal Candidate
The Vice President for Education Grantmaking oversees a large and complex funding strategy that requires optimizing the talents and contributions of multiple individuals and teams within the Education Philanthropy division and across the broader organization. Success in the role requires: 
•    A skilled collaborator who’s highly effective in building trusting relationships and creating a positive and constructive environment among direct reports, peers, and other key stakeholders.  
•    An entrepreneurial problem-solver adept at embracing and navigating ambiguity and engaging others in identifying creative solutions. 
•    An expert communicator able to strategically adapt messaging and style to align with the needs and objectives of key internal and external audiences. 
•    A proven organizational leader with experience developing and maintaining high-performing teams, leading through change with empathy, and acting with the highest standards of professional integrity. 
•    An analytic thinker committed to data-informed decision making and experienced in assessing and drawing on evidence to inform strategy. 
•    A change agent who’s unsatisfied with the status quo and committed to deploying Ascendium’s resources to create change that improves the lives of learners from low-income backgrounds. 
•    A lifelong learner, whose innate curiosity drives professional development opportunities for themselves and their teams to expand their current knowledge base and skills. 

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About Ascendium

Ascendium is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has helped millions of learners pursue postsecondary education since 1967, when we were formed to help fulfill the promise of the landmark Higher Education Act of 1965. Over the years, we’ve grown to become the nation’s largest federal student loan guarantor, providing information, tools and counseling to help millions of borrowers nationwide avoid default and keep the door to reenrollment open. We also conceive and develop innovative products and services that support academic achievement, financial wellness and student loan repayment success and invest in studying and improving postsecondary education practices through our philanthropy.

We use the net proceeds from our guaranty services and other operations to fund our philanthropy. The Philanthropy team comprises program, grants management, and learning and impact staff who all have a shared commitment to advancing our philanthropic mission of elevating opportunities for learners from low-income backgrounds so they can achieve postsecondary education and career success. Our grantmaking focuses on transforming postsecondary education and workforce training systems so they can support low-income populations, especially those in historically underrepresented groups, including first-generation students, incarcerated adults, rural community members, students of color and veterans. Currently, our philanthropy focuses on removing structural barriers to success, streamlining key learner transitions, expanding postsecondary education in prison and supporting rural postsecondary education and workforce training. Across these four focus areas, our funding supports innovative ideas, the creation of an evidence base and the expansion and replication of effective practices.

Company info
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Telephone
866-511-0477
Location
38 Buttonwood Ct
Madison
WI
53718
US

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