Executive Recruitment
We recruit chief executives, directors and senior leaders who can drive transformation, strengthen services and balance commercial sustainability with social purpose.
Housing Recruitment
We support housing organisations across the UK through executive recruitment, board recruitment and interim leadership.
Leadership in housing
A safe, secure home provides the foundation for people to live healthy, independent and fulfilling lives. Housing organisations play a vital role in supporting communities, tackling homelessness, providing affordable homes and helping people access the services they need to thrive.
The sector continues to face significant challenges. Organisations are balancing greater demand from people with increasingly complex needs, stringent regulatory standards, workforce challenges, and the need to invest in homes, services and communities, while responding to changing policy and increasing public scrutiny.
Leadership plays a central role in navigating these challenges. The strongest leaders combine commercial judgement, the ability to work alongside partners, and drive digital transformation to build organisations that are resilient, well-governed and focused on the people they serve.
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Our work in housing
Strong housing leadership is built on a wide range of experience. Alongside, supported housing providers homelessness organisations and housing associations, we work with leaders from health and social care, regeneration, commercial property and other place-based organisations where skills transfer naturally across sectors.
That broader perspective helps us identify people who can bring fresh thinking as well as sector expertise. We take time to understand your organisation, the communities you serve and the challenges you're responding to before building a search that reaches well beyond established networks.
Areas we support
We work with organisations across the housing sector, including:
- Homelessness charities
- Supported housing providers
- Community housing organisations
- Housing and care providers
- Housing Associations
- ALMO’s
- Extracare providers
- Resident-led organisations
- Housing foundations and trusts
- Social housing partnerships
How we support organisations in this sector
Learn more about Executive Recruitment
Board Recruitment
We help organisations appoint chairs, trustees and non-executive directors who strengthen and diversify governance, balance social purpose with financial sustainability and ensure high levels of customer service.
Interim Leadership
We recruit experienced interim leaders who can provide stability during organisational change, support transformation programmes and help services continue to deliver for residents and communities.
Leadership and specialist roles we've supported
Alongside executive and board appointments, we regularly support organisations to recruit specialists who strengthen services and improve outcomes for residents.
Roles we recruit
Executive leadership
- Chief Executives
- Executive Directors
- Chief Operating Officers
- Directors of Housing
- Directors of Finance
- Directors of People & Culture
- Director of Transformation & Digital
Functional leadership
- Housing Operations
- Resident Services
- Finance
- People & Culture
- Marketing & Communications
- Property, Facilities & Asset Management
- Resident & Customer Services
Governance leadership
- Chairs
- Trustees
- Non-Executive Directors
- Committee Chairs
- Resident Board Representatives
Selected track record
Leadership appointments
| Organisation | Role |
|---|---|
| Emmaus UK | Chief Executive |
| ExtraCare Charitable Trust | Executive Director of Operations |
| Homeless Oxfordshire | Head of Property & Facilities |
| Nacro | Director of Housing & Wellbeing; Director of Education & Skills |
| Oasis Community Housing | Chief Executive |
| RE:GEN Group | Head of Social Impact |
| Services for Independent Living | Chief Executive |
| Single Homeless Project | Director of Finance & Corporate Services |
| Society of St James | Chief Executive |
| Stonewall Housing | Chief Executive |
Board appointments
| Organisation | Role |
|---|---|
| Action Homeless | Chair |
| Family Mosaic | Chair, Resident Scrutiny Panel |
| Nacro | Trustees; Governors |
| Notting Hill Genesis | Non-Executive Director |
| P3 | Board Members |
| Porchlight | Trustees |
| Railway Housing Association | Housing Trustee |
| SPEAR | Chair |
| Society of St James | Trustees |
| SULets | Chair; Trustees |
Meet the team
Clare Chesworth
Head of Social Justice
James Hunt
Director | Membership & Development
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