Education Charity Recruitment

We recruit chief executives, senior leaders and trustees for charities working across education, learning, skills and access to opportunity.

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Recruitment for education charities

Education charities work across schools, communities and the wider education system, often addressing educational inequality, widening access to opportunity and supporting children and young people. Their work can range from direct programmes and services to research, campaigning and influencing education policy.

For organisations focused on social mobility, leadership also means understanding the barriers that affect educational opportunity and ensuring the experiences of the children, young people and communities they work with inform decisions. Leaders often work across organisational boundaries, building relationships with schools and academy trusts, funders, government, universities and other partners.

The right experience depends on how your organisation works and what you need the appointment to achieve. We establish where knowledge of education or working with children and young people matters, where charity leadership experience is important and where expertise could transfer from elsewhere.

Our work across education and charities gives us access to leaders from both, supported by targeted research across social mobility, youth, education and skills.

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Mathematics for Education and Industry (MEI)

Leadership Recruitment for Education Charities

Leading an education charity often involves working across organisational and sector boundaries, building relationships with funders, education providers, government and communities while keeping the organisation focused on the people it exists to support. We recruit senior leaders whose experience reflects the organisation's purpose, operating model and stage of development, considering where direct education or charity experience matters and where relevant leadership can transfer from elsewhere.

We regularly recruit

Chief Executives
Executive Directors
Directors of Education
Chief Operating Officers
Regional Directors
Programme & Service Directors

Fundraising & Communications Recruitment

For many education charities, income generation depends on building a strong case for support and developing relationships with trusts, foundations, corporate partners and individual supporters. We recruit fundraising and communications leaders who can connect an organisation's educational purpose with the audiences and funders it needs to reach.

We regularly recruit

Fundraising & Development
Philanthropy
Trusts & Foundations
Partnerships
Supporter Engagement
Marketing & Communications

Functional Recruitment

Education charities need specialist leadership across the functions that support their programmes, people and organisational development. We search within charities and education while also considering relevant experience from membership organisations, public services and other purpose-led organisations.

We regularly recruit

Finance
People & HR
Operations
Programme Management
Digital & Technology
Policy & Research

Governance Recruitment for Education Charities

Trustees of education charities bring charity governance responsibilities together with an understanding of the organisation's educational purpose and the environment in which it works. The required expertise depends on the organisation, from education, policy and safeguarding to finance, fundraising or organisational development. We recruit individual trustees and Chairs alongside multiple board appointments, looking at the experience already represented and where a new appointment can add useful expertise or perspective.

We regularly recruit

Chairs
Trustees
Treasurers
Committee Chairs
Committee Members
Co-opted Advisers

Interim Recruitment

We support education charities when they need experienced leadership for a defined period, whether covering a senior vacancy, supporting organisational change or providing additional leadership capacity.

We regularly recruit

Interim Chief Executives
Interim Directors
Interim Functional Leaders

Selected track record

Executive & education leadership appointments

Organisation	Role
1851 Trust	Director of Education Strategy
AllChild	Regional Director, East Sussex; Interim Regional Director, East Sussex
Ark	Senior Philanthropy Manager
Autism Unlimited	Director of Education
English-Speaking Union	Director of Education; Head of Fundraising; Supporter Services & Engagement Manager
First Give	Director
Harington Scheme	Chief Executive Officer
Mathematics for Education and Industry	Chief Operating Officer
Nacro	Director of Education
The Tutor Trust	Chief Executive Officer

Governance appointments

Organisation	Role
Action Tutoring	Fundraising Trustee
English-Speaking Union	Co-opted Advisers; Co-opted Committee Adviser, Education
Keats-Shelley Memorial Association	Chair; Honorary Treasurer
Nacro	Chair of Finance & Audit Committee
Right To Succeed	Treasurer
School Home Support	Chair; Trustee
The Access Project	Trustees
WeMindTheGap	Chair

Meet the team

Eddie Caviezel Cox

Head of Schools, Academies & Education Charities

Clare Chesworth

Head of Social Justice

Phil Gifford

Principal Consultant | Schools, Academies & Education Charities

Kellie Gordon

Principal Consultant | Schools, Academies & Education Charities

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