How Engaging an Executive Search Firm Helps Non-profits Find the Right Key Leader
Finding key talent for executive leadership roles is crucial for any non-profit to fulfill their unique mission. Every organization needs an executive who can provide strategic oversight and direction while aligning with stakeholder and board priorities. Partnering with an experienced executive search firm like Fahrenheit Advisors relieves the impact on organizations’ internal resources to manage job profiling, candidate sourcing, multi-round interview facilitation, and offer negotiations.
Whether evaluating the potential of an internal candidate alongside the skills and qualifications of external talent or strictly going to market to source and attract the best and brightest, Fahrenheit Advisors provides a customized approach for each organization to achieve their executive search and recruiting goals.
leveraging decades of non-profit hiring experience
Fahrenheit Advisors has extensive experience working directly with non-profit boards to successfully lead search committees through every stage of the hiring process. Our team is used to being in a position to help groups of stakeholders from varying backgrounds to come together and gain consensus on what defines a successful candidate profile who can help ensure their organization achieves the goals of its mission.
With input from Fahrenheit’s team of experts, a robust job opportunity profile is developed to highlight the complete summary of the skills, background, and competencies each qualified candidate should possess. Typically, not every item on a job description is an absolute requirement, but crafting a thorough and effective opportunity profile helps to provide an important frame of reference as boards begin evaluating candidates.
Before going to market, we directly engage with board members, major donors, and other key stakeholders to ensure all internal contributors are aligned on the job description and overall profile since it must also describe the position and the opportunity within the organization, including its impact on internal culture and the greater community.
Fahrenheit Advisors facilitates the entire interview process, building in-depth candidate profile packet for each interviewer. Our team may sit in on select interviews to help facilitate conversations between candidates and the decision makers in real time.
Elizabeth Dolan Wright, search committee and board member at the Science Museum of Virginia Foundation noted the importance of finding the right partner in their executive search process as they were hiring their Chief Development Officer:
“The Fahrenheit Advisors team expertly led a thoughtful and strategic search for The Science Museum of Virginia Foundation. They were diligent in understanding our evolving needs for a key leadership role, engaged top quality candidates swiftly, and guided our committee through the screening and interview process efficiently, all which ultimately led to a very timely and successful conclusion of our search. It was a very enjoyable and productive partnership from beginning to end, and I would enthusiastically welcome the opportunity to engage with Fahrenheit Advisors again in the future.”
Finding, and hiring, new leadership
Unlike many other firms, we lean heavily on our deep network to source the best talent wherever the client is located. Our existing relationships with local non-profits coupled with our employees’ active board participation positions us for effective highly-qualified candidate sourcing.
Here is a representative sample of our non-profit clients we have served recently and the roles we have helped them fill.
In partnership with Fahrenheit Advisors, these non-profit organizations were able to identify their ideal candidate, extended offers, and had those offers accepted within 80 days from our initial project kickoff. In the world of executive recruiting, that’s a best-in-class outcome.
No matter the current state of your organization, Fahrenheit Advisors has the expertise and the experience to help you hire your next leader. Our team understands the art behind guiding a complex board and search committee through an effective opportunity profile building and candidate interview process. We also understand the science behind engaging a nationwide talent pool and presenting a diverse slate of candidates that align to the desired combination of tangible and intangible competencies.
Whether you’re building an opportunity profile, outlining your organization’s executive needs, or seeking to interview external candidates alongside internal employees for your next executive role, Fahrenheit Advisors can help. Contact our executive search team today for more information on our process, our results, and our deep network of qualified professional candidates located in your community.
Executive Search & Recruiting managing Director
John Griffin leads the Executive Search & Recruiting practice and has held recruiting leadership roles in both small agencies and large corporate environments, developing and executing on sourcing strategies across multiple functional areas. John brings a robust perspective through a variety of operational leadership roles in addition to over 12 years in talent acquisition. He has a passion for building strong relationships and developing top talent. Connect with John on LinkedIn.
