Windsor Recruitment has added the recruitment of suitably qualified non-executive Directors and Chairpersons destined to sit on Boards of nonprofit entities to its comprehensive list of client services.
To be effective in today’s environment, all Boards need highly skilled individuals to operate synergistically within a productive framework. So, it’s vital that each Director should bring specific and complementary skills, experience and personal characteristics to the table.
Drawing on years of experience in mainstream business and the nonprofit sector, Windsor is able to recruit eminently suitable candidates by drawing talent from business, government, community and social life.
Consequent on its extensive work across the nonprofit sector, Windsor Recruitment also maintains a sizeable and growing database of high value candidates for directorships.
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Windsor now recruits Board Members and Chairpersons for nonprofit entities
Windsor Recruitment has added the procurement of suitably
qualified non-executive Directors and Chairpersons for nonprofit entities
to its comprehensive list of client services.
This new initiative was launched to representatives of Queensland's nonprofit
sector at a gala luncheon hosted by Windsor Recruitment CEO Dylys Bertelsen
at Brisbane's Polo Club on 9 April, 2008.
Guest of Honour and Keynote Speaker was leading expert Professor Myles
McGregor-Lowndes OAM, Director of the Australian Centre of Philanthropy
and Nonprofit Studies at Queensland University of Technology.
The announcement of this new initiative has been enthusiastically received
with numerous enquiries and expressions of interest lodged with Windsor
since the launch.
Click here to see how you can register
to be considered for appointment as a Director or Chairperson on the Board
of a nonprofit organisation.
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Keynote Speaker was Professor Myles McGregor-Lowndes OAM, Director of
the Australian Centre of Philanthropy and Nonprofit Studies at Queensland
University of Technology. |
| Dr Cameron Newton from The Australian Centre for Philanthropy and Nonprofit
Studies at QUT enjoys a light moment with the Chief Executive of the
RSL (Qld) State Headquarters, Chris McHugh. |
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Hosting the luncheon party at the Brisbane Polo Club on Wednesday 9
April was Windsor Recruitment CEO Dylys Bertelsen. |
| Attending the Windsor luncheon at the Brisbane Polo Club were Derek
Millar, Manager Business Systems & development, Centacare, Archdiocese
of Brisbane with Consultant - Executive Recruitment at Windsor, Fiona
Hackett. |
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Here's what The Courier-Mail had to say:
Charity begins at work
Amanda Horswill
April 12, 2008 12:00am
SENIOR executives are seeking out unpaid
positions on charity boards in a growing trend towards financially
successful individuals adopting social responsibility.
Windsor Recruitment CEO Dylys Bertelsen says the
company will this week launch a new low-fee recruitment service for
charity directors because more executives want to give back to society
at the same time charities are seeking more professional boards.
Bertelsen says the company has always recruited for
charity boards, but that demand has grown so great recently to warrant
a specialised business division.
Much of the not-for-profit sector relies on a less
formal, ad hoc recruitment process dependent on people, personally
touched by the charities' area of interest, volunteering for board
places. This can lead to a board stacked with unqualified - although
suitably passionate - directors potentially unable to tackle an increasingly
demanding level of operational standards. |
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GIVING back . .
. Windsor recruitment CEO Dylys Bertelsen says more high-level professionals
are becoming volunteer board members for charities.
Picture: Steve Pohlner |
"There is no real difference between being on a commercial
sector board to a non-profit board," Bertelsen says. "Not-for-profit
entities are getting bigger, have an increased level of responsibility
and there is increased competition for the donated dollar. Some organisations
are given significant sums of money from the Government, so they have
to get their grant submissions right. All of that means charities
need to have an appropriately qualified board that includes a diversity
of skills.
"We will be applying a recruitment process like
we would do with any other commercial position. Recruitment is based
on merit. We will be taking a good brief from appropriate people on
the charity board and the CEO if required, and we will be advertising
the vacancy and using our networks to fill it. There will be screening,
reference checks and then we will present a shortlist to the organisation."
She says more successful businesspeople are putting
their hand up for charity work, and their bosses are delighted.
"It is very clear the organisations these individuals
work for are very keen to be part of the process as well. These individuals
have to gain permission from their employing organisation before attending
an interview to work with a charity, and their employers' reaction
is always very positive. The organisations seem happy to allow their
managers to have time out to do this."
Not For Profit Network director Belinda Busoli recently
resigned as CEO of that charity to become one of their board directors.
She is standing for the chair.
She says any moves to professionalise boards can
only help the sector.
"There are some very good boards in the sector,
but I don't think a good board happens overnight," Busoli says.
"Some organisations need to invest time in teaching
some directors how to be good board members. People get involved in
boards because they are passionate about the charity's area of influence,
such as someone whose father has had a heart attack might join a board
for a charity advocating heart health. But that might not translate
into being a good director.
"There are some amazing stories around the sector
about boards interfering with the operational side of a charity.
"There is one board I know where a director
will walk into the CEO's office and go through his in-tray. That's
because the director is not trained in how to do his role.
"Generation X and Y are moving into their peak
professional years and research shows that they have more of a tendency
to engage with charitable organisations and to get involved.
"In particular, those generations are looking
for a balanced lifestyle and they are pretty much on the way to achieving
that. They are now looking around to engage professionally in a way
that is more fulfilling." |
A Postcript from our CEO
'A lovely and well-written article, I'm just concerned that it may have
unintentionally fudged the line between traditional mainstream directors
and board members in nonprofit roles.
While it's quite accurate to say that 'there's no real difference between
being on a commercial-sector board to a non-profit board', that's only true
up to a point..
The responsibilities and legal obligations on all Boards are identical.
But in the areas of personal inter-relativity, the nonprofit board generally
has a far more complex dynamic.
The scope of stakeholders is so much wider and can even range through to
clients themselves, their carers and families, volunteers and other passionate
supporters of the mission.
Issues too can be challenging and will periodically encompass areas of
extreme personal sensitivity and confidentiality.
These added dimensions are another reason why directors of nonprofit organisations
need to be chosen with such meticulous care.'
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