Executive Search and Selection For charities and not-for-profit organisations

Richard’s experience in the charity sector began after university, working for Voluntary Service Overseas in Southern Thailand. Some years later he organised his first charity fund-raising event - a dinner in the Officers’ Mess at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich. He subsequently worked as Development Director for ACET International, the international HIV/AIDS charity.

Richard has expertise in marketing, rebranding and advocacy. He has practical experience of marketing in both education and the charity sector. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and member of the English Speaking Union. Richard started his working life in education, teaching politics and history. He has a MA in Political Education.

Throughout he has also taken a lively interest in practical politics, from observing a civilian coup d’état during his time in Thailand, to standing as a parliamentary candidate in two general elections, and being in Spain the night the Socialist Party was elected after the death of Franco. He has long followed American politics, and was a reporter at a Republican Party Congress to select a Presidential candidate.

Tony Rayne is Finance Director and Company Secretary of CfA. After a ten year short service commission in the Royal Navy Tony worked for a trade body, the International Copper Association. During this period his programme management role entailed extensive travel in managing a wide variety of projects in different sectors of industry. He set up a new office in Singapore and as Director of Finance & Administration (Europe) he was also responsible for relocating the European Office to Brussels.

Tony gained a Master in Business Administration from the University of Durham. A keen sportsman, he has been active in encouraging the participation of young people in sport, particularly cricket and hockey. He has been in involved in a variety of community activities, most notably the setting up of a successful community shop in Buckinghamshire.

Natasha has a degree in psychology and carries out projects for the Chief Executive to support the growth and development of the services as well as supporting the team with assignment administration.

Stuart is Director of Client Services. His charity experience has included five years as Chair of a community regeneration initiative that grew out of an Education Action Zone in the Midlands. “Quinzone” as it is known, now provides vocational training for schools across Birmingham and is a recognised model of multi-agency work involving social services, police, health and education targeting individuals and families in need.

Stuart’s career started in the healthcare industry where he progressed to director level in marketing and general management in the UK and internationally. He has been responsible at board level for designing and implementing strategies for organisational change, involving recruitment of new staff and the development of new organisational structures and systems.

He tutors for MBA courses in Strategy; Creativity Innovation & Change and has written a book for students entering the world of work entitled “Unfair Advantage – how to win in the graduate rat-race”.

Theresa has a degree in psychology and provides the team with all the necessary back up support to ensure assignments are carried out efficiently for clients.

Judith Lovelace is a Senior Consultant and an experienced career consultant. She has many years’ experience of chairing community and environmental organisations in Twickenham. She is a volunteer at The Twickenham Museum and is currently Chair of the Friends of Strawberry Hill.

Judith’s first career was in local government to Director of HR level and was the first woman President of The Society of Chief Personnel Officers in local government (now PPMA). She moved into a freelance HR consultant role in the public and voluntary sectors.

She has had among her many roles one as Staff Commission for England advising the Secretary of State. Judith’s passions are for the arts, heritage and architecture in the UK and Classical Europe.

Peter has over 25 years in the charity sector and his interests focus on East and Southern Africa. Peter came to CfA from the Archbishops’ Council where he was involved in recruitment for the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal Church. He has wide experience of religious communities and organisations.

His skills include the running of assessment centres and the use of psychometrics for selection and personal development. He has been a trustee of a variety of organisations including Toynbee Hall, the Society of Saint Francis and Tower Hamlets Community Credit Union and is a member of a number of environmental charities including Plantlife, the Woodland Trust, HDRA and the National Trust for Scotland.

Smita has worked with many high profile clients and is actively involved with Lions Club International and has assisted with a variety of international fundraising events. One of the main focal points continues to be the development of the “Eye-Camps” project throughout Asia.

Before joining CfA Smita’s career was in publishing, latterly as Deputy Publisher at Mitre House Publishing. She directed a leading charity trade journal, “Charities Management” as well as a number of international business and finance titles. She has a wealth of publishing, commissioning and marketing experience.

Sara has worked as Campaign Director for leading national and international charities and also as a fundraising consultant assisting charities with strategic planning, major gift campaigns and training. Sara trained in marketing and advertising and her first career was as an account handler in advertising and creative agencies. Sara continues to enjoy finding solutions to challenges faced by charities and can offer our clients fundraising consultancy.

In her spare time, when not at the theatre, Sara is involved in the Jewish community. She is an active Board member of her Synagogue and participates in sponsored charity bike ride challenges, most recently a 520km ride from Vietnam to Cambodia.

Jim joined CfA to establish our now successful Scottish office. He is an experienced recruitment consultant who has been very successful in the search of key personnel in Scotland, Northern England and both Northern and Southern Ireland.

Jim has worked in a variety of roles within the British Red Cross, Forest Holme Palliative Care Unit, Macmillan Cancer Support and Barnardo’s. He was also instrumental in the setting up and taken part in a Child Bereavement Group.

After a successful career in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, Jim then had an equally successful time in the Not-for-Profit Sector before establishing himself as a Senior Search and Selection Consultant.

Edward has a career in fundraising and public affairs consultancy, which has included senior permanent and interim appointments with City University, Liverpool John Moores University, Imperial College, Crusaid and Coram Family.

He is non-executive chairman of 4ps: the Public Private Partnerships Programme and a non-executive director of London Strategic Housing and the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners.

He serves as an elected member of the City of London Corporation and as a Justice of the Peace. He is also lead member for human resources and diversity on the City of London Police Authority. He is a Liveryman Elect of the Leathersellers’ Company and served as Clerk of the Tax Advisers’ Company as they prepared to take livery status. Edward has wide experience as a charity trustee and school/college governor, currently serving on the boards of the Anne Frank Trust, Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Westminster Challenge.

He has previously been chairman of governors of the City of London School for Girls and Sir John Cass’s Foundation School and a trustee of City Parochial Foundation and the Refugee Council.

Michael is a consultant with specialise interests in the City Corporation and Livery Company appointments, whilst also covering charitable schools and other charities.

After a career which started in the Army, but which mainly continued in British Aerospace, he is now a Management Consultant who, when not engaged in CfA recruiting, also operates in high technology defence business consultancy. Michael is a Liveryman and member of the Court of Assistants of his Livery Company. He was Prime Warden (IE ‘Master’) in 1991/92.

He is Deputy Chairman of the Company’s grant giving charity, the Company’s representative on the Governing Body of the City University, and a City and Guilds Institute representative on the Governing Body of Imperial College. Through his Livery Company he is also a Trustee of a number of Charities.

Michael is also a Council Member (Trustee) of Speakability, a national charity which provides aid to adults suffering from aphasia, and a member of its Fundraising Committee.

Chris has spent 40 years in teaching, the last 20 in two senior school independent headships most recently at St John's School, Leatherhead. In his final years as an HMC head, Chris chaired the HMC (and latterly combined HMC/GSA) Professional Development Committee and had responsibility, amongst other things, for directing the training courses for new heads.

Since retiring from full time school-based work, Chris has helped govern four schools (in two of which he chairs the Education Committee), formally appraised numerous HMC heads and assisted governing bodies with the appointment of heads, bursars and other senior staff as an education consultant with CfA. Chris is an experienced school governor.

Joanna joined CfA after a career in Education, most recently as Headmistress of St George’s School, Ascot. She assists schools in their recruitment of heads, bursars, deputy heads and directors of marketing and development at both preparatory and secondary level, in Britain and overseas.

Joanna has also been an independent consultant on university entrance, sixth form curricular choice and senior school selection and has been a GSA representative on the executive committee of the Independent Schools Examination Board. She advises schools on staff appointments and appraisal as well as career direction for school staff who are interested in promotion.

Joanna is on the board of several charitable trusts, works with two universities and on the management of a political and diplomatic training programme. She is also involved in the governance of both independent and state schools.

John has been a Consultant with CfA since 1994. He has over thirty years’ experience in the public and voluntary sectors including in HR director roles in major housing associations. He is very active in his local community and has served as an elected Councilor, chairing his local authority's Housing Committee.

John is qualified by the British Psychological Society to conduct a full range of psychometric measures and he is experienced in devising and administering the assessment centres we run for our clients.

As the Director of our partner company Personnel Solutions UK Ltd, John also works with a wide range of charities and other voluntary bodies on every aspect of HR management. With nearly 250 different organisations on his client list, his experience of charity employment matters is second to none, and his consultancy is the only source of personnel management advice that works exclusively with voluntary sector organisations.

John is author of the much acclaimed Managing People in Charities, and is a regular columnist in Third Sector.

Peter is Chairman of CfA and was one of the three founder trustees of Charity Appointments in 1984. Subsequently he became chairman both of Charity Appointments and its associated limited company. He is also currently Chairman of Dawson Holdings Ltd.

Previously, he was Chairman of The Wace Group PLC, Associated British Industries, and of Longbridge PLC. Since 1959 he has been a Governor of Thomas Coram Foundation the oldest incorporated charity in the UK – and in 1990 became its Vice-President.