NESC's experienced Executive Search team conducts industry-standard searches, using proprietary methods and original research to help nonprofits identify, recruit and hire highly qualified senior executives. Since launching its Executive Search service nearly two decades ago, NESC has been placing high achievers in key leadership positions throughout the nonprofit world.
NESC's search experience has included a full range of successful placements, from Board member and CEO positions to C-level executives in finance, marketing, development, human resources management and information technology.
- Board Chairman
- Board Member
- Chief Executive Officer
- President
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief of Staff
- Chief Operating Officer
- Development Director
- Executive Director
- Chief Human Resources Director
- Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
- Director, Information Systems & Technology
- General Manager
NESC's Executive Search practice is national in scope and has been extremely varied in terms of the categories of nonprofits we have served.
Among recent Executive Search assignments:
- For an international association, NESC developed a succession plan and recruited a President/COO.
- For a large social services organization serving the low-income elderly, NESC recruited six new C-Suite Board Members with diverse functional expertise.
- For an international arts and culture organization, NESC recruited a new CEO, who reversed a loss and generated a large surplus.
- For a major international museum and education center, the NESC search team recruited a new Chief Financial Officer.
- For an international education organization, NESC recruited a Board Member, Chief Marketing Officer and a Director of Information Systems & Technology.
- For a Connecticut municipality, NESC identified and recruited a new Chief Financial Officer.
- Albert Ellis Institute
- ARC of Somerset
- Asia Society
- Beth Abraham Family of Health Services
- Boscobel Restoration
- Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and New Jersey
- Hamilton-Madison House
- Interchurch Center
- Jewish Home & Hospital
- Morningside Heights Housing Complex
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- National Association for the Specialty Food Trade (NASFT)
- New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation
- New York City Police Museum
- Polytechnic University
- Queens Library
- Reformed Church of Bronxville
- South Street Seaport Museum
- Town of Wilton
- William T. Morris Foundation
- World Education Services
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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. 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 economical 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 costs of the ads add up quickly. Worse, such ads too often yield piles of un-vetted résumés whose review frustratingly wastes great amounts of 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 an affordable fee, actually approximately 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, like 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.
NESC search processes are similar to those globally benchmarked by the world's largest search firms. For each search client, NESC seeks 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 with candidates' former
- supervisors, peers and subordinates
- Representing the client in negotiating compensation packages
- Counseling clients on position and placement issues
NESC CEO and Chairman Marvin Berenblum, 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 Vice President Jane Marsh, former senior associate at Heidrick & Struggles.
Since it is largely subsidized by contributions, NESC's Executive Search fee is affordable for nonprofits. In contrast to commercial firms, moreover, NESC does not charge for indirect costs.
Nonprofit organizations interested in learning more about NESC's Executive Search service, click here or call Paul Barrett, 212-269-1234, ext 126; or Jane Marsh, 203-622-1468.
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.
