When using a hiring committee to fill your nonprofit leadership role, you gain a lot of benefits (you can read more about them here) but a hiring committee can also create a lot of delays. This is a natural result of having multiple opinions, schedules and personalities.
As your search partner, we want to optimize the huge benefits of a search committee and mitigate the delays and frustrations.
Over our decades of partnering with nonprofits we have developed procedures that help the process run more effectively for everyone involved. Not only does this lead to a quicker hire, it also makes the whole process a lot more enjoyable for you and the candidate.
Areas we address before launching a search:
1. Who is the main point of contact on the committee?
2. We recommend that you are consistent with your interview format – in-person vs. video – to allow for a fair evaluation. How will your interviews be conducted?
3. How many rounds of interviews will your team need and what will the primary focus of each of those interviews be?
4. Not all committee members will be available for all interviews; what is the acceptable number of members needed to proceed with interviews?
5. Which committee members will be at every interview to provide a consistent evaluation of the candidates?
6. Do you want to be made aware of committee members who are not providing timely communication and creating delays?