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Executive Search
 
 

Executive Search

 
 

Helping Nonprofits Find Top Senior Staff

 
 
 

Since launching its Executive Search service nearly two decades ago, NESC has been placing high achievement candidates in key leadership positions. These include:

 
 
  • Board Chairman
  • Board Member
  • CEO
  • CFO
  • Chief of Staff
  • COO
  • Controller
  • Development Director
  • Event Planning Director
  • Executive Director
  • Human Resources Director
  • Marketing Director
  • President
 
  National in scope, NESC clients have included the Animal Cancer Fdn., Amnesty International USA, ARC of Somerset, Episcopal Church USA, Goodwill Industries of Greater NY and NJ, Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG), Meals on Wheels, National Assn for the Specialty Food Trade (NASFT), New Canaan Public Schools, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, New York Foundling Schools, New York Police Museum, Polytechnic University, Queens Borough Public Library, Reformed Church of the Bronx, South Street Seaport Museum and Staten Island Historical Society.  
 

 

  
 

Benefits of the NESC Executive Search

 
 

Almost any nonprofit can benefit from help in recruiting and hiring new senior-level executives. After all, that’s what very successful for-profit firms routinely do.

Strangely, however, few nonprofits conduct methodical and exhaustive searches when hiring a new senior executive. They cut corners. They are impatient. They try to do it by what they assume will be cheap means, such as by placing ads in newspapers and journals, hoping to find someone through word-of-mouth or just interviewing prospects suggested by Board members.

This is a recipe for disappointment. For one thing, the ads’ costs add up quickly. Worse, such ads too often yield piles of un-vetted resumes whose review frustratingly wastes great time and effort. And, too often, candidates identified via personal acquaintances or Board members are usually far from the most qualified.

By contrast, NESC offers nonprofits a recipe for success. For a very low fee, actually just half of what commercial search firms charge, NESC can ensure that nonprofits fill their executive posts with top-flight and appropriate new leaders. Moreover, since NESC, as its clients, is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization, it well understands – much better than can a commercial search firm – a nonprofit client’s culture and operations.

  
 

 

  
 
The NESC Search Process

NESC search processes are similar to those globally benchmarked by the world’s largest search firms. For each search client, NESC scours for the most suitable candidates by –

      • Working with the client to set criteria and position specifications
      • Alerting NESC’s nationwide contact network in the nonprofit community
      • Researching multiple databases
      • Vetting candidates and potential candidates
      • Conducting in-depth competency-based interviews
      • Checking backgrounds and references by talking to candidates’ former bosses, peers and subordinates
      • Representing the client in negotiating compensation packages
      • Counseling clients on position and placement issues

 
 

 

  
 

The NESC Executive Search Team

  
 

NESC CEO and Chairman Marvin Berenblum, the former top executive of the New York City office of Heidrick & Struggles, one of the world’s largest and most respected executive search firms.

NESC Senior Vice President Paul Barrett, former head of the New York City office of a national search firm.

NESC Consultant Creighton Reed, serving Westchester County and Connecticut.

 
     
 

Fees

 
  Since it is largely subsidized by contributions, NESC’s executive search fee is very affordable for nonprofits. In contrast to commercial firms, moreover, NESC does not charge for indirect costs.

 
     
 

What Clients Say about NESC Executive Search

 
  From a museum
  
 

“I wanted to let you know how our development department is doing under the watchful eye of our most recent hire…

Thank you for the range of applicants we had to choose from and for listening to us when we explained our needs and goals to you. NESC provides a tremendous service to the not-for-profit world.”

  
  From a Trade Association  
 

“Please accept my congratulations for a job well done! Our search committee reviewed the capabilities of 12 different Executive Search firms responding to our RFP. We interviewed four finalists and selected NESC for the following reasons:

  1. You clearly understood the need to involve Staff, Board Members and active volunteers, as well as our membership, in the process.
  2. You accepted the assignment’s elongated timeline and additional workload related to obtaining wide scale involvement and feedback.
  3. Your standards, ethics and working methods equaled or excelled the best in the field.
  4. Your strong team of mature experienced volunteers added depth and breadth to your capabilities.
  5. Your concern for efficiency and financial discipline was unique.
  6. Your concentration in the not-for-profit arena was balanced by prior individual experiences across many fields.

During the search process your flexibility and valuable advice was crucial. Your extensive outreach provided us with a broad selection of excellent candidates, and your professional summary of each candidate led to a logical selection of a strong field of semi-finalists.

Your guidance and structured guidelines allowed our committee members to perform at a very professional level while they retained a strong feeling of control, involvement and satisfaction throughout the entire process.

Finally, following the selection of our preferred candidate, your diligence in performing comprehensive reference checks and help in restructuring and presenting the compensation package was very much appreciated.

Needless to say, the end result speaks for itself – and right on schedule. We have an outstanding new President in place, well supported and welcomed by all involved.”

 
 
 
 
 
 

Contact NESC Executive Search

 
  Nonprofit organizations interested in learning more about NESC’s Executive Search service, click here or call Paul Barrett. 212-269-1234. ext. 126.  
     
  Experienced executives interested in becoming part of the proprietary NESC Executive Search database, request an application by clicking here or by calling Paul Barrett. 212-269-1234. ext. 126.  
     

 

 
     
 
 
Nonprofit organizations interested in learning more about NESC’s Executive Search service, click here or call Paul Barrett. 212-269-1234
ext 126
 
Experienced executives interested in becoming part of the proprietary NESC Executive Search database, request an application by clicking here or by calling Paul Barrett. 212-269-1234. ext. 126.
 
Marv Berenblum
Marv Berenblum
 
Paul Barrett
 
Creighton Reed
 
 55 West 39th Street. 12th Floor.  NY, NY 10018. 212-269-1234, ext 116.  questions@nesc.org.  Copyright 2006.