
Accelerated governor recruitment
Struggling to fill a vacancy, recruit multiple governors, or find specific skills for your board?
Our Enhanced Recruitment Service goes beyond ‘matching’, with a more proactive and targeted approach for boards with urgent or hard-to-fill roles. We headhunt skilled candidates using a range of recruitment platforms, reaching people outside your traditional networks at a faster rate. All appointed candidates also get access to our CPD-certified governor induction.
We still offer our free matching service, but if you need accelerated results, fill out the form below, and we’ll be in touch to discuss a more tailored approach. You won’t pay anything until a volunteer has been appointed.

Let’s discuss your recruitment needs
Submit your details below and we’ll be in touch to explore enhanced recruitment for your board.

How does the Enhanced Recruitment Service work?
- Schools are offered an optional discovery call. During this call, our recruitment team will gain insight into the make-up of the school’s board. That way, we can understand what they are looking for in their next school governor.
- We’ll then use this information to create a role brief to identify potential volunteers across a range of recruitment platforms.Â
- We’ll give all volunteers who are recruited through this service free access to our online training ‘Become an Effective New Governor.’Â
We don’t charge schools until the volunteer we find takes up their post. If we aren’t successful in finding a school a school governor, they don’t pay anything.Â

Who could benefit from using our Enhanced Recruitment Service?Â
- Boards with long-standing vacancies. If you’re struggling to find volunteers to become school governors, this service can help.Â
- Boards that need future-proofing. If looking ahead, you want to avoid a skills gap on your board then our Enhanced Recruitment Service can target those volunteers in your local area who have the skills you need.Â
- Boards in need of diversity. Don’t forget last year 68% of school governors placed by Governors for Schools were under 45 and 31% were from an ethnic minority group.Â
- Boards that need a dedicated and professional service to remove any politics and bias. As an organisation, we don’t discriminate based off any protected characteristic outlined in the Equality Act 2010. As a neutral party, we also avoid bias that may occur when recruiting locally.Â
Get in touch
Want to explore whether the Enhanced Recruitment Service is right for your governing board?
Reach out to our recruitment team.
Explore all our services
We offer comprehensive support, including chair of governors and academy trustee recruitment, training and development.
You can explore each service in our brochure below.