ABOUT

Helping our customers represent their communities and deliver outstanding public services

Our specialist Public Sector & Not-for-Profit team are highly experienced at supporting organisations with a social purpose in hiring talent across multiple specialisms. We are passionate about delivering a high quality and personalised service to our customers to reflect their individual needs.

The JSS - Public Sector & Not-For-Profit team are experts in our markets and offer an honest and solutions-based approach to recruitment.

Our Market Insights

Depth and breadth of knowledge to draw on

Our specialist market know-how spans Finance, IT & Digital, Procurement & Commercial, Human Resources, Legal, Transformation, and Estates & Property. Across these markets, we’ve sourced talent for multiple appointments at Executive, Senior & Mid-Management levels.

What’s more, whether you need talent in these areas on a permanent or fixed-term contract basis, through retained search or contingent recruitment, we can help. If it’s an interim solution you’re after, we have an extensive network of trusted interims who are fully vetted, quick to grasp strategic needs and swift to make a difference. We also offer consultancy services where appropriate.

PARTNERSHIP

JSS Public Sector & Osborne Thomas

We have recognised that whilst our customers may be looking to work with one executive recruiter the reality is they on occasion need the collective resources of two. Through having access to both of our organisations we can provide our customers with the significantly increased specialist expertise, networks and resources they seek when it comes to a comprehensively exhaustive and market leading service delivery model.

FRAMEWORKS

We have access to the following frameworks:

  • RM6229 – CCS Permanent Recruitment Framework
  • RM6160 – CCS Non-Clinical Temporary and Fixed Term Framework
  • RM6290 – CCS Executive and Non-Executive Framework
  • ESPO Strategic HR Services
  • Digital Outcomes & Specialists
  • G-Cloud
  • LGRP/YPO

GREATER EXPERTISE

Meet the team

  • Principal, Public Sector & Not-for-Profit

    Simon Elcombe

  • Manager, Public Sector & Not-for-Profit

    Jonathan Hrycaiczuk

  • Associate Director, Public Sector & Not-for-Profit

    Nia Ross

  • Co-Founder

    Simon Smith

  • Senior Consultant, Public Sector & NFP

    Liv Davies

  • Head of Operations

    Nichola Peagam

  • Marketing Manager

    Sophie Carrillo

  • Executive & Co-Owner

    Scott Beckson

  • Senior Consultant, Public Sector & NFP

    Charlotte Pimbley

  • Director, Public Sector & Not-for-Profit

    Cameron Leather

  • Senior Consultant, Public Sector & NFP

    Ben Densham

  • Executive Director and Co-Founder

    Rashi Elkinson

  • Click here to meet the rest of the team

CASE STUDIES

Some of our most recent Public Services projects

Aquaculture Stewardship Council

Attracting a diverse field of candidates for a Director of Finance appointment

Our extensive market mapping helped us target individuals who had worked within similar organisations but on a similar growth trajectory to what ASC were going on.  This ensured we had a very targeted list of organisations and people whom we could approach with tangibly relevant experience.  We were extremely proactive and inclusive with our advertising strategy by ensuring underrepresented groups would have gained access to the candidate pack. 

public-services

  • War Child

    Interim appointment in a period of business transformation
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DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

Promoting a culture of diversity

At JSS, we are authentic and genuine when supporting our customers commitment to equal opportunities for all, whilst ensuring as an organisation we practice what we preach.

We strongly value diversity across all its dimensions, including social background, race, gender and disability. Our staff are trained in inclusion and avoiding unconscious bias, driven at Board level by our co-founder and Diversity Champion Rashi Elkinson. All recruitment processes are fully inclusive focused on the best person for the job regardless of any protected characteristic, and we ensure all advertisements and materials use inclusive language and promote equal opportunities. We promote the Disability Confident scheme and guaranteed interviews wherever appropriate.

We recognise the risk in headhunting senior candidates of perpetuating lack of diversity; for this reason we specifically target diverse candidates, reaching out to a wide range of target organisations including large private sector customers. 

We make the interview process as inclusive as possible; where appropriate, we can support remote interviewing or invite candidates and customers to our fully accessible offices.

Within JSS - Public Sector & Not-for-Profit, we support our customers by hosting round table diversity & inclusion discussions to ensure the subject remains top of the agenda and we continue to ensure the organisations we support reflect the communities that they serve.

But commitment to diversity is about actions and outcomes much more than words and good Intentions; last year we appointed 71% of women and minority candidates into senior appointments and we maintain our commitment to identifying diverse and representative shortlists.

SOCIAL VALUE

Going the extra mile

We believe that in order to fully partner with the charitable sector, we must contribute to their good work, which Is why we've partnered with Connections at St Martins, a leading homeless charity. Our commitment includes a significant corporate contribution, as well as fundraising and volunteering throughout the year. To read more about our partnership, click here.

We prioritise Diversity and Inclusion – from clients, to candidates, to our own employees – and are committed to challenging bias. We place a strong focus on gender diversity; JSS Co-founder Simon Smith is a Non-Executive Director of workingmums.co.uk.

To contribute to the wider conversation and raise awareness on several relevant yet challenging topics, we frequently publish research & insight-based articles. We cover topics spanning inclusive recruitment, sustainable initiatives, company culture, and leadership coaching for the introverted. We are also committed to support the development of early talent through our internship programme.