Discovering Your Nonprofit’s Next Leaders

Transition Planning

Executive searches begin with thoughtful transition planning. With many nonprofit executives planning to exit within the next five to 10 years, CapDev works with organizations to take a people-centered, philanthropy-informed, and future-focused approach to leadership transition planning. We strive to position the organization for growth and a sustained mission through the following process:

• Clarify: We collaborate to set expectations, timing and process, clarifying the board’s role and defining approaches to communication and transition governance.
• Align: We surface strengths, risks, opportunities, and near-term priorities through confidential stakeholder interviews and targeted document review. Then we help determine conditions necessary for the next leader to succeed and recruit a transition committee.
• Search Plan: We develop a Candidate Profile, then review and refine a compensation package and provide a recommendation on interim leadership option.
• Communications Plan: Next, we prepare internal and external stakeholder communications, finalize a practical transition roadmap, and set a course for search, interim support, or continued stabilization work.
• Cultivate: If an interim executive is needed, we outline interim scope, timing, authority, and board support.

From here, organizations have the option to proceed directly into executive search.

Comprehensive Executive Search

CapDev brings an innovative approach, along with decades of experience, to your search. Through our Comprehensive Executive Search services, you can expect:

• Full Administrative Services: We help you refine your position announcement and job description language, place customized position postings in the marketplace, and receive and review all resumes.
• Networking and Original Research: We reach out to our connections and yours to bring you a customized candidate pool, often identifying candidates who were not even on the job market.
• Candidate Profile Survey: The Candidate Profile Survey is a customized online survey designed to uncover valuable perspectives from stakeholders such as staff, board members, donors, and service recipients in a confidential manner. This anonymous survey provides the search committee and the CapDev search team with key insights to more accurately define the competencies and priorities of the role.
• Candidate Screening: Our screening process is multi-tiered, saving you time and ensuring you get only the best-fit candidates.
• Organizational Compatibility Assessments: Our screening test option is an added layer to help determine if finalists are a good fit for your organization or not.
• Reference and Background Checks: We go beyond the usual checks to conduct public resource checks too.
• Guarantee: Your success is our reputation. Comprehensive Executive Searches include a one-year guarantee.

Candidate Sourcing

Candidate Sourcing is an alternative to CapDev’s Comprehensive Executive Search that leverages CapDev’s broad network to surface candidates. We take on the administrative tasks and initial phases of qualifying applicants, allowing Search Committees deeper engagement in making finalist selections without the time-intensive burden of sourcing and screening work. As a modified search option, Sourcing is a hiring solution that provides cost savings over traditional search models and can also be utilized to fill multiple openings at one time at reduced rates. Here’s how Candidate Sourcing works:

• Market Strategy: We help you refine your position announcement and job description language
• Sourcing: We place customized position postings in the marketplace and deliver customized mass emails to defined target market
• Screening: We receive, process and review all resumes. We then conduct initial video screening of qualified candidates.
• Candidate Dashboard Delivery: We deliver a dashboard packet of all qualified candidates with resumes
• Add-On Services: We offer additional services to enhance Candidate Sourcing

After the Candidate Dashboard Delivery, you take it from there to conduct interviews and make your hire.

Making Nonprofits Stronger

CapDev is on a mission to help make nonprofits stronger, and surfacing exceptional candidates from diverse backgrounds is critical to delivering on that mission. CapDev is committed to sourcing and recruiting a diverse talent pool and to weaving the IDEAL (Inclusive, Diverse, Equitable, Accessible, and Leadership) principles throughout our search process.

Add-On Services for Candidate Sourcing

No two searches are alike. For this reason, we provide a customized approach to your needs. The following optional services are available to enhance the Candidate Sourcing process. Onboarding is available for both our Comprehensive Executive Search and Candidate Sourcing services.