Executive Search & Recruitment: Helping you to select high performance fundraisers

Current studies on employee performance show that high-quality employees perform 25% - 50% better than mediocre ones. What's more these findings reveal the huge direct and indirect costs charities pay when they employ the wrong people.

McConkey • Johnston international recruitment service specialises in offering integrated, step by step selection processes which ensure that you don't have to rely on a "hit and miss" approach for selecting fundraising, marketing or communications staff.

Using a high performance predictive model and rigorous interviews we help charities to objectively measure whether a particular candidate meets the criteria. With the help of evaluation forms developed by our team, your charity's senior staff can accurately weigh the strengths and weaknesses of different prospects and the necessary tradeoffs thus minimising the risk inherent in employment decisions.

Our experience of working with Christian charities and our understanding of their unique cultural and financial challenges and opportunities makes us one the best recruitment firms within this sector.

Understanding your needs and shaping up the job descriptions. During this initial stage we do a through job analysis, evaluating the functional areas for which the position holder is accountable, defining key results expected in each area of functional responsibility, identifying the general and specialised knowledge needed to achieve success in the key results areas, etc.

The main outcomes of this process are: a focused job description and person specification documents and better defined expectations about prospect and their future performance.

Advertising in the charity sector. We assist our clients in crafting the marketing messages for their job adverts and help them to advertise in the right places in the Christian and wider charity sector. Sometimes, we serve as an independent point of contact for prospect enquiries managing the recruitment process on behalf of our clients.

Executive searches in the UK and USA. We recruit qualified individuals for senior fundraising, marketing and management positions. Using our extensive network of contacts in the Christian sector in the UK and USA to bring experienced and talented senior managers and fundraisers to world changing charities.

Selecting the best candidate for the job. Because we understand what is needed for the successful implementation of a fundraising or marketing plan we offer field-tested interviewing techniques, case studies and fundraising tests that can help you distinguish between good and poor quality candidates. Also we offer practical guidance on opening, conducting and closing preliminary or second stage interviews, so that you get the information and insights you need from prospects.

In addition to this, we can provide over 100 behaviourally based questions covering a wide range of areas that can help you decide a prospect's overall job and organisational culture fit.