Conducting an Executive Search for a People and Culture Manager to foster a culture of high performance and best practice employee engagement in a leading girls school.
The Brief
Future Leadership™ partnered with a leading girls school in Melbourne to appoint their next People and Culture Manager
The appointee would need to have an understanding of schools and a background in people-oriented roles, either within schools or other relevant sectors such as human services, education related or not-for-profits. In addition they will need to be able to establish credibility and build strong support within the institution. They will gain the trust and confidence of key stakeholders quickly, work closely with the finance and risk teams, and bring a deep passion for engagement with an encouraging and positive attitude.
Candidate net Promote Score
Future Leadership combines truly personalised relationships with innovative technology solutions to ensure an approachable and efficient process for all our Net Promoter Score across clients, successful candidates and unsuccessful candidates is well above industry standard.
Candidates supported every year
We maintain genuine relationships with past candidates and continue to support them with leadership solutions long term, after they land their role.
Senior Women Appointed since 2002
Over half of the executive search assignments undertaken by our team have resulted in the appointment of outstanding female or LGBTQI+ leaders to high profile roles.
Candidate Retention Rate for 12 months since 2002
Our thorough briefing process and ability to engage passive candidates mean that we go to great lengths to find the right person for the role – long term!
The Process
Future Leadership undertook a comprehensive briefing with the Principal and Business Manager of the school. In addition to this, the Future Leadership team represented by Alice Silver and Ann-Maree Chadwick conducted a national search utilising our broad candidate and referral partner networks.
The Future Leadership team sought to identify a candidate with the ability to focus on specific and relevant experience gained in the education sector or other sectors such as not for profit and candidates who have transferrable experience from other sectors.
The Outcome
The appointee will begin in the role in January 2025. They previously worked as a HR Manager at an engineering consultancy in Melbourne. The successful candidate has a remarkable ability to interact with diverse groups of people, maintaining respect and warmth in all interactions.
