School Leadership Recruitment

Our experience spans the whole school spectrum - and we have an excellent appointment success rate on all the school leadership assignments we have supported.

We provide a whole service – from helping you develop the brief to designing your advertisement and recruitment marketing materials.

But we know that sometimes the leader you are looking for isn’t looking for you. That’s why we specialise in targeted ‘executive search’, seeking out the best candidates for a role rather than waiting for them to apply.We use our knowledge of the school leadership market to develop a unique search strategy for every assignment we take on. We talk directly to the people who might be interested in your role and provide excellent “candidate care” so that potential applicants are encouraged to apply.

We know that no two schools are the same – which is why we work with you to develop a bespoke package of support that best fits your budget and allows you to attract the best talent to your school.

Here’s how we might help:

Search & Select

End-to-end service

Centred around full executive search (headhunting), our most popular package for headteacher and deputy headteacher appointments provides you with comprehensive support on an end-to-end service from planning to appointment. In addition to the development of a marketing strategy, the provision of full executive search and support to the final stage of the process – Navigate also takes responsibility for the candidate care, administrative tasks as well as providing the full search and response handling. Technical assessment and support at final panel are also provided.

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Search

Full executive search service

An increasingly popular package which provides creative marketing and full executive search support service with response management. Targeted at headteacher and deputy headteacher appointments, ‘Search’ is ideal when you have the capacity, confidence and resources to manage an interview and assessment stage yourself.

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Chase

Candidate chasing service

A creative marketing and cost-effective response support service with focused search. This is ideal for all senior and middle leader posts in a school where a personalised response to job seekers will help them commit to your post. Navigate will speak to everyone who expresses an interest in your role, and we’ll agree a list with you of up to 40 possible candidates.

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