Recruitment Case Study: Uptree

Uptree is a social impact organisation that enables employers to connect with high potential early careers talent before they leave school. They design of student-friendly, accessible content, to empower employers to effectively reach and engage with young talent from a wide range of backgrounds. Uptree’s mission to see employers everywhere offer unique experiences of work to demystify careers and help students transition from education to employment.  

ImpactEd Consulting was engaged as the strategic partner for Uptree to appoint a new CEO, providing a full-service offering from role design to contracting.  ImpactEd Consulting are not a traditional recruitment agency: working exclusively with strategic partners, like Uptree, where there is genuine alignment in vision and values. This approach always goes beyond standard recruitment, and this was no less true for Uptree; with our consultants immersing themselves into the organisation to truly understand their unique needs, culture, and challenges to ensures deliver them precisely the right talent.

By partnering with social impact organisations on a transparent fixed-cost, commission-free basis, ImpactEd build lasting relationships focused on creating high-performing, positive and inclusive workplace cultures. Experience in education and the charity sector and expertise of recruitment, learning and development at C-Suite and executive level, enable ImpactEd Consulting to find the best people in the sector.

With a deep commitment to providing diverse shortlists and actively addressing structural inequality throughout the process – this approach is integral to all aspects of recruitment rather than a series of bolt on activities.  

Every aspect of the hiring process—from role scoping and job description refinement and interview design to panel participation and negotiation facilitation—were developed to meet Uptree’s need. This approach resulted in a successful appointment and leadership transition.

Tamsin Dewhurst, outgoing CEO of Uptree shared:  

“I loved working with ImpactEd and would highly recommend them to any organisation looking to hire into their senior leadership team. Throughout the process they made the experience incredibly smooth, but also very professional and enjoyable to work with. They worked closely with myself, the board and my senior leadership team to set the aims and objectives and our approach for working together. ImpactEd project managed and implemented many of our decisions and taking the tasks forwards and giving us weekly updates to  week to week, saving us a huge amount of time and energy but with the right amount of collaboration for us to know the process was progressing very well. The end to end the process ran for about 3-4 months from designing the role, the promotion strategy, designing the application process and assessment criteria, it was very helpful to work with experts in this space to ensure that each step was carried out in the best possible way. I would definitely want to work with ImpactEd again in the future should we need to hire more appointments like this."

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