The IPFA is the global professional association for the infrastructure and energy financing industry. They are a small team with a culture of growth and development. They like to hire people who are passionate about learning and development.
Membership Bespoke has a long-term relationship with the IPFA and has recruited over a third of its existing workforce. Over the last year, they needed us to recruit a Marketing Manager to cover maternity leave, a Membership Co-ordinator, and an Events & Marketing Assistant.
The Marketing Manager role needed an experienced person for maternity cover, while the Membership Co-ordinator and Events & Marketing Assistant roles were suitable for recent graduates who would be willing to develop and learn. All the new staff would need to fit with the organisational culture of getting things done as part of a highly collaborative team.
IPFA is the global professional association for the infrastructure and energy financing industry.
As an independent, not-for-profit organisation, they connect and promote the collective interests of their public & private sector members, including the industry’s leading investors, lenders, advisors, developers, sponsors, and government institutions.
They have over 600 member organisations who make up their global network, including governments, multilateral agencies, and private sector companies.
We supported the IPFA to seek talented candidates with a passion for learning and development for the following roles:
IPFA is a very forward-thinking organisation, for example it is one of the first organisations to have moved to a 4-day working week. It is a small supportive team, and they are passionate and committed to supporting their members. They needed candidates who were extremely capable, with the character to succeed and the drive to deliver.
These roles were about much more than finding people with the right skills and experience. Our deep understanding of the culture at IPFA gave us the insight to identify personal characteristics that were likely to succeed.
To find the right candidates we undertook a proactive search and interrogation of our databases. We have over 15,500 candidates on our database of qualified professionals with experience in the membership sector. We undertook a targeted advertising strategy to graduates who demonstrated the potential required to be successful. We pivoted and adapted our searches based on client feedback throughout the process.
We put in place a comprehensive and proven recruitment process and worked closely with the client to communicate our progress. We took a highly iterative approach with IPFA, seeking and processing detailed feedback to ensure our interview process uncovered applicants who would be assets to IPFA.
Each role had a two-stage virtual interview process, and we kept candidates and IPFA management abreast of developments at each turn.
We made the three placements in only five weeks from start to finish. The feedback we have received from the IPFA has been excellent and the successful applicants have told us how much they are enjoying their new roles and working with the team.
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