Not-for-Profit Exec Search Partner — Build Your Practice

Compass Carter Osborne; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & commission

Simply Health Cash Plan

Investors in People – wellness & dev

Quarterly events & social calendar

Increasing annual leave

Flexible working with central London"

Job summary

Compass Carter Osborne is seeking a Partner or Director-level operator to build a Not-for-Profit practice, backed by a platform, brand, and infrastructure. The role offers autonomy to create a leading practice within a growing firm, with a defined career path to Partner through Director progression.

We focus on commercial not-for-profit clients, PE-backed platforms, and governance-led organisations, with a high level of senior stakeholder exposure and impact.

Qualifications

• A proven track record of retained C-suite search at Partner, Director or senior fee-earner level within a specialist or global search firm.
• A demonstrable portable client base and network across the commercial not-for-profit space, organisations, boards, chairs and CEOs who know you.
• Sustained personal billings and evidence of building or growing a practice, not simply inheriting one.
• Comfort operating at CEO, Chair and Trustee level, briefing, challenging, and being taken seriously in the room.
• Genuine sector credibility in the commercial not-for-profit space, or an adjacent PE-backed sector with transferable relationships and insight.
• A view on the commercial NfP market and where leadership challenges lie.

Responsibilities

• Personal fee production on senior retained C-suite mandates, CEO, CFO, COO, Chair and Trustee-level appointments across the commercial not-for-profit space
• End-to-end mandate delivery – from client briefing and search strategy through to shortlist, offer and placement
• Client relationship ownership – building deep, long-term partnerships with a portfolio of NfP clients
• Practice ownership, building the Not-for-Profit vertical, its client base, its brand and its market position
• Team build-out, hiring, mentoring and leading the consultants and researchers who will scale the practice with you
• Client strategy, long-term partnerships with PE-backed and privately-owned NfPs, membership bodies, commercial subsidiaries of large charities, and organisations sitting at the interface between mission and margin
• Commercial contribution to CCO, you will be part of the firm’s leadership conversation on brand, growth and platform investment

Skills

Retained C-suite search

Client relationship management

Business development

Leadership & mentoring

Job description

Compass Carter Osborne is seeking a Partner or Director-level operator to build a Not-for-Profit practice, backed by a platform, brand, and infrastructure. The role offers autonomy to create a leading practice within a growing firm, with a defined career path to Partner through Director progression.

We focus on commercial not-for-profit clients, PE-backed platforms, and governance-led organisations, with a high level of senior stakeholder exposure and impact.