Executive Search Practice
Percival are building a skilled approach to our discovery led search process that has proven to expand beyond traditional networks and bring through diverse passive and active talent. We use the highest access LinkedIn Recruiter tools, traditional advertising, network mapping, the latest CRM on the market, and other methods to ensure we get the highest market coverage possible.
With our expert recruitment team, led by our Recruitment Director, we work with our not-for-profit and for purpose partners to understand and discover the key business needs before designing a process best suited to finding the most talented candidates on the market. We have built a strong track record with small to large organisations and across a range disciplines, demonstrating our ability to flex our approach to fit a position and an organisation’s needs.
Example Placements
UK Country Director
Chief Operating Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Exective Director
Our Executive Search Team
Adam Allnutt
Recruitment Director
Adam Allnutt is the Recruitment Director here at Percival and leads our Fundraising Recruitment Practice. He has nearly a decade of recruitment experience with a background in public policy, think tanks, parliamentary affairs and campaigning.
His experience in recruitment spans executive search, senior appointments, fundraising and income generation, finance and accountancy, and advocacy.
Get in touch with them on adam.allnutt@percival.org
Madeleine Kind
Senior Recruitment Consultant
Madeleine Kind is a Senior Recruitment Consultant here at Percival. She has developed a good approach to candidate stewardship through search processes. Her background is in fundraising events, social action, and arts and cultural spaces.
She has a strong track record in placing fundraising professionals from Philanthropy Managers and Corporate Fundraisers to Trust Fundraisers and Individual Giving professionals. She has strong connection to charities through her experience as an artist in residence and a volunteer for foodbank in Kingston.
Get in touch with them on madeleine.kind@percival.org
Case Study's
Chief Operating Officer at Apasen
Apasen are a £12 million a year turnover at home care and respite centre charity that operates across London and the wider south east. They got in touch as they needed search support for a Chief Operating Officer role that has been created just before the pandemic but had gone unfilled and remained vacant.
Through a period of discovery, we met with the Chief Executive, members of the trustee board and the senior leadership team to ensure we created a picture of the ideal candidate, but also the organisations business need. We designed the recruitment process and pack as part of the service, produced the advert copy and worked with the Chief Executive to ensure the role had good visibility.
From the follow up discovery meeting to the appointment of a candidate, who had previously been a Deputy Chief Executive at a similar organisation operating in a similar location, the process took seven weeks. We met with the Chief Executive and the trustee board several times through the process, met with over 25 candidates, used LinkedIn, our network and CRM to reach out to over 200 qualified candidates, and ensured that we encourage candidates from hard-to-reach backgrounds to apply.
Executive Director at Man&Boy
Man&Boy are a small charity with under £500,000 in turnover, have two members of staff and an active trustee board, some of whom have operational responsibility for parts of the charity. They got in touch through our network and needed assistance to appoint an Executive Director that was not in their direct network as they had made an unsuccessful direct appointed a year earlier.
This process needed us to work directly with the trustee board to understand what the operational and business needs of the organisation were and help them to understand what candidates would be available and interested in the post. Through an interesting period of discovery, we designed a process that was more in-depth and had stewardship, accessibility and outreach as its focus.
The appointment took seven weeks and we ended up appointing someone local to charity that they did not know and that had previously been the Director of SoccerAid at Unicef, someone who they never believed would be interested but as we had an in-depth understanding and good stewardship they were brought through the process.
