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Chief Executive Appointment

Academies Transformation Trust was one of the early multi-academy Trusts to be established. The Trust has over 20 schools/academies distributed throughout the West Midlands, Nottinghamshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk.

The advertisement identified that the Trust was in transition and required a new CEO to work both strategically and operationally on a broad improvement agenda across education standards, finances and governance.

Our role involved planning an effective strategy for the appointment. Our search focused on identifying individuals who understood the challenges of the role and also had a clear view of what outstanding teaching and learning looked like. There was a need to ensure that candidates understood the actual challenges of the role and not just the perceptions that existed about the Trust.

The Trustees were a little sceptical in appointing a search and recruitment firm to support their approach. The comments below set out our work and its success.

What they said...

“After some research we appointed Pentir to oversee the recruitment of our new CEO. It was an excellent decision as we were delighted with the way they dealt with the whole process keeping us well informed at every stage and always adhering to deadlines. Initially we received a good list of potential candidates with background information from which we were able to draw up our long short list. Pentir then interviewed our selected candidates and gave us detailed feedback which was invaluable in helping us to compile our short list for the final interviews. We found them easy to work with, very supportive and they gave us good advice. If the need arises we would definitely use them again and would recommend them unreservedly.”

After some research we appointed Pentir to oversee the recruitment of our new CEO. It was an excellent decision as we were delighted with the way they dealt with the whole process keeping us well informed at every stage and always adhering to deadlines. Initially we received a good list of potential candidates with background information from which we were able to draw up our long short list. Pentir then interviewed our selected candidates and gave us detailed feedback which was invaluable in helping us to compile our short list for the final interviews. We found them easy to work with, very supportive and they gave us good advice. If the need arises we would definitely use them again and would recommend them unreservedly.