Executive Search Services

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with PSEF’s Ad Hoc Executive Director Search Committee to orchestrate and oversee a national search for the upcoming Executive Director.

• Enhance the search approach, candidate specifications, and market positioning.

• Identify and evaluate candidates through proactive outreach, network-driven sourcing, and nationwide recruitment efforts.

• Assist in candidate assessment, screening, semifinalist evaluation, reference checks, and work-sample suggestions.

• Evaluate candidates’ competencies in fundraising, lending, capital deployment, strategic execution, executive leadership, and alignment with the mission.

• Create and implement an equitable search process that mitigates bias.

• Organize search committee and Board meetings, interviews, decision-making processes, finalist coordination, and offer acceptance procedures.

• Provide guidance on transition and onboarding strategies.

• Offer communications support, candidate-facing materials, confidentiality protocols, reporting, and regular updates.

• Collaborate with PSEF staff to ensure understanding of organizational context, culture, role clarity, and insights into strategic implementation.

• Assist the Board in approving the candidate profile, finalist interviews, and the final hiring decision.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in conducting searches for Executive Director, CEO, or similar senior leadership positions within mission-driven organizations.

• Proven track record of placing leaders responsible for managing funds, loan pools, community investment strategies, or mission-driven financial frameworks.

• Experience in recruiting leaders who implement multi-year strategic initiatives involving governance, movement relationships, fundraising, and capital deployment.

• Strong history of attracting diverse candidate pools and promoting equitable, inclusive search practices.

• Familiarity with committee-led and Board-sanctioned processes.

• Excellent project management, communication, and candidate stewardship skills.

• An approach tailored to suit PSEF’s scale, values, leadership context, and budget considerations.

• Knowledge of social justice, climate issues, environmental sustainability, clean energy, philanthropy, community development, community finance, lending, loan funds, enterprise strategy, financial institutions, or movement ecosystems.

• Transparent pricing or rate details.

• Capacity to perform original candidate research and outreach beyond established databases and contacts.

• At least three client references for similar executive search assignments.

• Proposal must contain a firm overview, relevant experience, methodology, engagement plan, timeline, team composition, DEI and bias-mitigation strategies, fee structure, deliverables, communication methods, and references.

• Submission through PSEF’s application portal by Wednesday, August 26, 2026.

• Complete all mandatory questions in the application portal and upload one PDF proposal.

• Email submissions are not permitted unless approved for accessibility reasons.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for regular travel to board meetings, member gatherings, funder meetings, conferences, and annual in-person events.

• Advisory support for transition and onboarding for the chosen finalist.