Recruiting Nonprofit Chief Financial Officers
This section of the Recruiting Nonprofit Leaders learning center is dedicated to nonprofit organizations recruiting for chief financial officers (CFO) or other similar financial management positions. Included are templates, tools, and articles we hope you will find helpful in your hiring process.
Finding the Right CFO for Your Organization
The key to finding the right CFO for your organization is to consider what qualities, skills, and experience will provide a good fit with the needs of your organization. We have identified practices that seem to increase the chances of finding the right person.
Frequently Asked Questions: Hiring a CFO
The key to finding the right CFO for your organization is to consider what qualities, skills, and experience will provide a good fit with the needs of your organization. Through Bridgestar’s research and talent-matching work, we have identified practices that seem to increase the chances of finding the right person.
Hiring a CFO: Interview Guide
The key to success in any hiring process is finding the candidate with the right qualities, skills, and experience for your organization’s needs, culture, and leadership. The candidate interview is an essential part of this process.
Sample Job Descriptions: Chief Financial Officer
CFO roles vary across organizations and within organizations over time. Based on the extensive experience of Bridgestar’s talent-matching team, we created sample job descriptions illustrating how the CFO role might be configured in four different organizations: a small nonprofit, a large nonprofit, a medium-sized nonprofit with complex funding sources, and a medium-sized nonprofit with straightforward funding.