Executive & Development Search

Service Description

Attracting talented staff members is a challenge for all nonprofit organizations. Recruiting exceptional talent requires an analysis of your staff structure and an understanding of what motivates applicants to apply. Before filling an open position, organizations could benefit from external assessment and search consultation.

PMA focuses its search services on executive, development, marketing and finance positions in the nonprofit sector. Given the firm’s deep networks in the philanthropic sector and with development professionals, coupled with its expertise in search and recruiting, PMA is ideally suited to conduct search advisory and full search engagements for executive clients in the Charlotte region, Rock Hill, Gastonia, Mooresville/Lake Norman and Triad regions.

Case Study

PMA worked with Down Syndrome Association of Charlotte in 2009 and 2010 to help them identify an optimal staffing design, source candidates for those positions…Read more

Testimonial

“It was been a pleasure working with Patton McDowell & Associates. We feel as though the Down Syndrome Association of Charlotte is well ahead of where we would have been had we gone it alone.

PMA’s counsel throughout the entire process was both prudent, but yet still forwarding thinking. We look forward to more opportunities to partner with PMA in the future.”

- Richard Morrow, Immediate Past Board Chair, Down Syndrome Association of Charlotte