Nonprofit Search Committee Tips – Best Practices
Successful executive searches require a close working relationship between your nonprofit search committee, staff, and our executive search leader.
Following is a list of suggested contributions your search committee can make to ensure a streamlined hiring process for your new nonprofit executive:
- Envision what you require from your new executive and communicate in detail with Scion Executive Search.
- Allow us to work directly with you. Alleviate indirect communication through assistants or intermediaries.
- Provide timely feedback on the position description and recruitment goals for the search.
- Provide the hiring history and reporting structure for the position.
- Supply us the names and/or applicant materials of any candidates your search committee identifies from other sources or from within your organization so we may include them in our search candidate pool.
- Advise us on any areas of the search that should be held confidential, and/or where privacy would benefit your search committee or entity. We consider your organization’s confidentiality to be of the utmost importance.
- Reply in a timely manner with feedback regarding your interest level in the candidates we present.
- Schedule candidate interviews quickly and after the interviews provide as much detailed feedback as reasonably possible.
- Ask questions and prepare to make an employment offer. Always put your nonprofit search committee in a position of being ready to hire.
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