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helping you build your organization, team, and impact

Hiring & Search Support

➙ More than 120 positions filled for mission-based organizations

95% of our clients partnered with us again

Leadership positions filled include Deputy Director, Vice President, Executive Director, and Senior Director roles

➙ Dozens of mid-level and junior roles filled in every field

Improved demographic representation across hires

When we partner with nonprofits and take on a search, your organization works closely with Sarah and a Rooted Edge Consulting staff member to bring our expertise to the project and save you time by coordinating your search.

We have hired for every type of role across organizations, including operations, communications, development, grassroots organizing/ campaigning, policy, leadership roles, and more. Running a search takes a lot of time and partnering with us not only helps you protect your time, but also ensures your search is run effectively, with strong attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion best practices, and years of expertise in hiring.

Partner with our team at Rooted Edge Consulting to coordinate your search and find your next hire:

Packages & Cost

"Sarah's ability to capture and relay the full measure of job candidates is unparalleled.

She has incredibly keen instincts about how a person will 'fit' within an organization.

Perhaps most valuably, she was able to help ME figure out what I needed for my open positions—she helped me articulate my 'dream hires' and then she went and found them!

I wholeheartedly recommend Sarah. She is the best recruiter with whom I've ever had the pleasure of collaborating.”

Jill Beckwith
Senior Director of Philanthropy
Mothers Out Front

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A few of our current and former clients:

Virginia Conservation Network logo with a stylized green 'V' and the organization's name.
Text that says 'FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE' with a red circle containing a white heart on the right.
Mighty Earth logo with green stylized mountain and earth graphic and the words 'Mighty Earth' in green.
The Price Center logo with a stylized human figure next to a yellow square.
Logo for Slingshot featuring green slingshot graphic and text 'Power for People, Not Polluters'
The word 'Waxman' in large yellow letters on a black background.
Logo with the text 'CeaseFirePA' with a stylized orange and purple flame symbol.

“We've worked with Sarah and her team on senior level searches and more junior level and they've helped craft a specific approach each time to find the best candidate.

They have a deep understanding of how to effectively run a search, bringing best practices around recruiting as well as a strong lens for diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’ve enjoyed getting Sarah’s time during key steps and decisions.

Rooted Edge’s pricing is very reasonable and works well for a small nonprofit, and larger ones, but I can assure you that you get the highest quality of work for the cost. We’re thrilled with our new hires. I highly recommend working with Rooted Edge Consulting.

Adam Garber
Executive Director | CeaseFirePA

Packages & Pricing

We offer three levels of partnerships and can design a budget that is best for your needs.

(please note: these budget estimates do not include posting budgets):

  • We take on a limited number of these projects where we work with a client to:

    • Facilitate an intake process to learn more about the job

    • Provide review and revisions to your job description to incorporate DEI best practices and make it recruiting!

    • Propose a job posting plan from our extensive list of sites, google groups, and listservs;

    • Post the job widely on job boards, google groups, and listservs;

    • Helping to building a diverse, talented, and sizable candidate pool through outreach to potential candidates through our network and Linkedin candidate searching and outreach;

    • Building your candidate pool through outreach and calls with like-minded organizations and contacts to generate ideas and more visibility.

  • This is our most popular package. With this partnership, we not only help bring boost your applications and bring in a diverse and larger group of applicants, but we also take time- intensive work off your plates, handle application review and the first round of phone interviews, facilitate hiring decisions in the early stages, bring DEI best practices to your search, and communicate with candidates.

    • Starting with an intake process to learn more about the job, the types of candidates you are looking for, the details we need to know, and to start to map out an ideal interview process;

    • Drafting and editing job descriptions, designed to recruit strong candidates and incorporating strong DEI best practices;

    • Developing a job posting plan from our extensive list of sites, google groups, and listservs;

    • Posting the role widely on job boards and listservs;

    • Creating recruitment materials, including: sample social media posts, outreach email and talking points on the job; criteria docs for effectively evaluating candidates; and phone screen questions;

    • Outreach to potential candidates through our network and through linkedin candidate searches;

    • Outreach and setting up calls with like-minded organizations and contacts for candidate leads;

    • Reviewing applications;

    • Conducting initial phone interviews and facilitating decision making early in the process

    • Implementing DEI best practice throughout your search;

    • Communicating with candidates throughout the process;

    • Sending declines;

    • Strategizing and offer consult around the direction of the search.

  • This package is recommended for clients who anticipate a challenging/ time-intensive search AND need our support at the later stages in the search. Searches that fall in that higher range tend to require higher budgets due to a few factors, including: if you need significant help in the final stages of the process, how challenging a role it is to fill, if the search is national or international in scope (which can results in hundreds of applications which requires even more time!), and how senior and specialized the position is.

    This package includes ALL of the services in our Classic package (see above) plus:

    • Drafting interview questions for all stages in the process;

    • Helping draft and finalize a candidate exercise in your process

    • Facilitating decision calls at each step in the process

    • Making reference calls

    • Other support as needed

“I also wanted to give a special shoutout to Sarah Bennett and team for their work throughout the process. They were excellent, incredibly responsive and transparent, and courteous.”

Candidate
Waxman Strategies (Rooted Edge client)

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