PennSearch
Current Search
Chief Operating Officer/Secretary for Catholic Education
Archdiocese of Philadelphia and Faith in the Future Foundation
About
PennSearch is a full-service search firm that has successfully completed searches with very high client satisfaction in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Through our client networks reaching over 250 school districts and organizations on a monthly basis, we have specialized in the Mid-Atlantic region for this work and limited our searches to no more than four per year to keep our quality at the highest level.
PennSearch has created a search process that adapts processes used by search firms in education, not-for-profit, and corporate sectors to meet the needs of high performing school districts and organizations. Coupled with our School Study Councils, who meet monthly with over 100 Superintendents across three states, we have effective bases to know and work with the best candidates for leadership positions in our region.
Our process includes:
- a range of activities designed to focus the board on key issues as it prepares to hire a new CEO for the district
- activities to engage the full range of stakeholders–inside and outside the formal school district or organization–in ways the board deems most helpful in the decision-making role
- a “Compendium of Services” that begins with issues like temporary services before the search begins to board-superintendent team-building and leadership coaching after the search is over
- an inclusive search that offers the most services in the market place at the lowest cost
PCEL has successfully conducted searches for:
- Archdiocese of Philadelphia, Elementary and Secondary Superintendents
- Montgomery Township School District (NJ) Superintendent
- Wallingford-Swarthmore School District Superintendent
- West Chester Area Schools Superintendent
- Delaware County Intermediate Unit Executive Director
- Cherry Hill Public Schools Superintendent
- Haddonfield School Superintendent
Contact Us
For further information and an initial consultation, please contact:
Dr. Jim O'Toole, Acting Program Coordinator
(215) 573-5511
pennsearch@gse.upenn.edu
