Our Services

Recruitment Support Across the Education Sector

AcadHire supports schools, EdTech companies, education consultancies, coaching and test-preparation organisations, training businesses and other education organisations with targeted recruitment across leadership, academic, growth, operations and specialist functions.

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How AcadHire Supports Your Hiring

Specialist Recruitment

End to end recruitment support for teaching, academic leadership, admissions, counselling, marketing, operations, HR, finance, and administrative roles. We manage sourcing, preliminary screening, candidate assessment, interview coordination, and joining follow up to help institutions hire relevant professionals efficiently.

Campus and Expansion Hiring

Structured recruitment support for new schools, additional campuses, and organisations hiring across several positions or locations. We help plan workforce requirements, prioritise critical roles, map relevant talent markets, and coordinate multiple searches.

Leadership and Executive Search

A focused search service for senior and business critical roles such as Principals, Vice Principals, Academic Heads, School Directors, Centre Heads, Admissions Leaders, and Operations Heads. Each search is handled with discretion, targeted market mapping, and detailed assessment of leadership experience, motivation, and institutional fit.

Talent Mapping and Market Insights

Research led mapping of relevant professionals across specific roles, locations, school boards, organisations, and experience levels. This helps institutions understand candidate availability, compensation expectations, competitor talent pools, and the overall market landscape before beginning a search.

What we recruit for

Roles We Recruit For

Leadership and Senior Appointments

Education appointments often require a more targeted search than conventional recruitment. AcadHire combines market mapping, direct outreach and structured assessment to identify professionals with the relevant experience.

School & Academic Leadership

  • Principal
  • Head of School
  • Deputy Head
  • Vice Principal
  • Academic Head
  • Director of Academics

Business & Functional Leadership

  • Business Head
  • Regional Head
  • Centre Head
  • Head of Operations
  • Head of Admissions
  • Head of Sales / Growth
  • Senior Functional Leadership
Sectors we support

Recruitment Across the Education Ecosystem

Our search capability spans different types of education organisations, each with distinct talent requirements.

K-12 Schools & School Groups
EdTech Companies
Coaching & Test Preparation
Education Consultancies
Training & Learning Organisations
Assessment & Education Services
Education Content & Publishing
Other Education Businesses
Our process

Our Search Process

The standard process behind every AcadHire search, from requirement to joining.

1

Requirement Calibration

We align on the role, responsibilities, experience requirements, compensation, location, timeline and success criteria.

2

Search Strategy & Market Mapping

We map relevant talent pools, organisations and sourcing channels based on the requirement.

3

Candidate Identification & Sourcing

We identify relevant professionals through targeted search, databases, networks and direct sourcing.

4

Candidate Outreach

We approach potential candidates, establish initial interest and assess suitability for the opportunity.

5

Structured Screening

We assess relevant experience, role alignment, compensation, location, availability, motivation and other mandate-specific criteria.

6

Shortlist Presentation

We present a curated shortlist with candidate information and screening insights.

7

Interview Support

We coordinate interviews, maintain candidate communication and support feedback through the process.

8

Offer and Joining Coordination

We support offer discussions, joining timelines and candidate communication through closure.

Candidates are screened against the role requirement before reaching your shortlist. Reference checks can be conducted as part of selected senior and leadership searches.

Deliverables

What AcadHire Brings to Every Search

Our work is designed to give hiring teams clearer visibility into the market, stronger candidate context and a more organised path from search to appointment.

Curated Candidate Shortlists

Profiles selected against the agreed mandate, with relevant career background, current organisation, experience, location and role specific information presented clearly for review.

Candidate Assessment Notes

Each shortlisted profile is accompanied by AcadHire's screening perspective, including alignment with the requirement, relevant strengths, areas requiring further assessment and overall suitability for progression.

Candidate Availability and Expectations

Clear visibility into compensation expectations, notice period, joining timeline, location preferences, relocation considerations and level of interest in the opportunity.

Search and Market Feedback

Where relevant, we share observations emerging from the search, including candidate availability, compensation patterns, common reasons for declining an opportunity and any challenges affecting the talent pool.

Search Progress Visibility

Ongoing communication on sourcing progress, candidate conversations, interview movement and other developments across the mandate.

Interview and Closure Support

Coordination through interviews, feedback, offer discussions and joining, helping maintain momentum with both the institution and the candidate until the search is closed.

Leadership Search Documentation

For selected senior and leadership mandates, deliverables may also include deeper candidate assessment, career motivation, leadership context, market mapping and reference checks where agreed as part of the search.