What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President position at Scarlet Hope?
Scarlet Hope is seeking a Vice President to help steward and advance their bold, Gospel-centered mission reaching women in some of the darkest and most complex spaces in the world. This executive leader will focus on organizational operations and staff leadership, ensuring that Scarlet Hope’s vision is supported by healthy systems, strong teams, and sustainable practices. This role exists at a pivotal moment in the organization’s life. Scarlet Hope has developed a proven outreach model, expanded nationally, and continues to grow its digital and global reach. The Vice President will play a critical role in strengthening the organizational foundation required to support this growth, bringing clarity, alignment, and execution so the mission can scale with integrity. Reporting to the President and working closely with the board, the Vice President will serve as a unifying leader across departments, translating strategic priorities into operational reality and fostering a staff culture marked by urgency, excellence, and deep alignment with Scarlet Hope’s mission.
A great match for this position would be:
- A seasoned operator with ministry conviction: Brings senior-level experience in operations, people leadership, finance, and systems, while holding deep alignment with evangelical Christian faith and mission.
- A trusted partner to a visionary founder: Has successfully worked alongside a high-capacity, fast-moving visionary and knows how to execute without diminishing the founder’s voice or calling.
- Unflinching in complexity and darkness
- Relationally intelligent and emotionally secure: Leads with humility, clarity, and confidence. Able to build trust with founder and across staff, board, volunteers, and partners without ego or defensiveness.
- Bias-to-action, offense-minded leader: Moves quickly, learns fast, fails forward, and consistently pushes the organization toward momentum rather than maintenance.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Operations and Staff Culture: Oversee day-to-day organizational operations including people leadership, systems, HR, finance, development, compliance, and infrastructure.
- Serve as Strategic Implementer to the Founder: Translate the founder’s vision into executable plans, priorities, and rhythms, ensuring alignment and implementation across departments and leaders.
- Stabilize and Scale the Organization: Build operational clarity and repeatable systems that support national and global expansion without sacrificing mission or culture.
- Develop and Lead Senior Staff: Coach and empower directors and leaders, clarifying roles, accountability, and decision-making authority across the organization.
- Strengthen Organizational Health and Sustainability: Partner with leadership to implement EOS-style operating rhythms, succession planning, and long-term organizational readiness.
Key Qualifications
- Proven Leadership Experience: 8 to 10 years of progressively responsible leadership experience in operations, organizational leadership, or executive management within a growing organization. Experience in nonprofit, ministry, or mission-driven environments is strongly preferred, particularly where complexity, rapid growth, or emotionally demanding work is present.
- Operational, Strategic, and People Leadership Excellence: Demonstrated ability to lead across multiple functional areas including people leadership, organizational systems, finance, compliance, and infrastructure. This leader brings both strategic thinking and hands-on execution, with a track record of building clarity, accountability, scalable processes, and healthy staff culture through change.
- Spiritual Maturity and Gospel Alignment: A committed follower of Jesus Christ who affirms Scarlet Hope’s Statement of Faith and lives out a vibrant, personal Christian faith. Deep alignment with Scarlet Hope’s mission, vision, and values, including adherence to its Standards of Christian Life. The Vice President is expected to actively participate in a local church and to model Christ-centered character, integrity, and leadership in both professional and personal life.
- Educational Background: A bachelor’s degree is required. Advanced education in business, organizational leadership, nonprofit management, ministry, or a related field is preferred, though equivalent professional experience may be considered.