Senior Appointments
What we offer
Charity People have been recruiting senior appointments and delivering executive search for our clients for almost 30 years. We understand the challenges (and opportunities!) involved in recruiting senior candidates and executive teams. We are passionate about ensuring our processes are inclusive and we’re experienced in responding to different clients diversity targets.
Our team has experience of recruiting both trustees and a variety of SMT positions. Our process can be adapted based on your needs; we fully recognise we need to deliver different services to different organisations. However you engage us, we will always be honest about what we can and can’t deliver.
Most clients ask us to undertake the following:
Spend time with any relevant stakeholders who can support us with developing our understanding of both your organisation, it’s culture and the type of candidate who will thrive and deliver impact once in post.
Support with designing a job pack that is both inspiring and engaging. A document that tells prospective candidates about why you are unique and why they should consider joining your team.
Actively market the post across a variety of job boards, whilst utilising our active social media channels
Pro-actively identify and approach potential talent. All of our team utilise a variety of headhunting techniques to ensure we can reach the most relevant candidates
Assess longlisted candidates, undertaking the first round of interviews and scoring them against an agreed criteria. We then sit down with the recruitment panel to agree a shortlist that will be invited to another interview.
Offer management, we support you with delivering an offer that will be accepted.
Our clients often share similar concerns;
How can we be certain I’m seeing the best candidates?
How can we be sure we won’t make the same mistakes made the last time the role was filled?
How can we ever find anyone as good as the outgoing post holder?
How can we find someone who is as good at promoting our organisation to the outside world as they are at keeping the staff team focused and engaged?
How can we ensure your top team are properly involved in the process?
We work on both retained and contingent assignments. We work across the UK and have excellent networks across the sector.
Although we’re much happier being involved from the outset, we can also provide specific help with individual elements of any recruitment project – be it designing a job description, developing a sourcing strategy, working up an assessment centre procedure, long-listing or indeed any part of the process where you feel you need specific help.
We recruit for permanent and interim positions for both full and part-time vacancies.
Who for?
We have worked with boards and CEO’s of a number of wonderful and inspirational charities and non-profit organisations, most tend
to have income ranging from £250k - £20m.
Recent positions recruited for include:
Trustees
CEO
Director of Development
Fundraising Director
Finance Director
General manager
HR Director
Director
Head of Marketing & Communications
Director of Communications
Director of External Affairs
