About Third Sector Partners

• Third Sector Partners (TSP) is a not for profit company, founded in 2005, and in a short span of four years, has gained a pre-eminent distinction as India's first retained top management executive search firm exclusively dedicated to the social, environmental and development sectors.



• We are structured as a boutique search firm mandated with providing specialized services to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), institutions engaged in social and economic development and corporate implementing corporate social responsibility and sustainability programs.



• We enable our clients to recruit CEOs, programme heads, top management functionaries and board members, who deliver exemplary leadership to manage change better and make a positive difference to the lives of communities around us.



• Third Sector Partners builds on, adapts and sectorally enhances the strengths and core competencies of our founding firm, Hunt Partner's, whose retained search methodology and talent management processes has made them the top 10 corporate CxO and top management search firm in the country.

Our mission
Every good deed deserves a good leader.

Our goal
We want to be recognised as the best-in-class boutique search firm for the social, CSR and sustainability sectors with evolving strengths in all verticals within these domains.

Our Social Responsibility
Our belief in creating leadership with panache at all levels in society had led us to create our own corporate social responsibility initiative, "Katalyst".

Katalyst is a not for profit program under the aegis of Hunt Partners and Third Sector Partners, with its vast experience in the domain of talent search in corporate and development sector, has recognized that the management workforce in India is limited and that there is an enormous need for people in the management cadre of India Inc. This program therefore, will succeed in creating a brand of women who will be absorbed at this level.

KATALYST MISSION

• Economic emancipation of women from the marginalized sections of society, through the medium of professional/higher education and specific interventions, which include access to technology, mentoring, financial support, hard/soft skills training and customized programs.



• Increasing the management bandwidth of corporate India, through the talent pool thus created, thereby giving India Inc access to a hitherto untapped talent base.

For more details on Katalyst, log on to www.katalystindia.org

Our Differentiators

• Founded by Hunt Partners, a leading Asia-focused executive-search firm.
• A Boutique: Faster, personalized service, proactive, smart Solutions, innovative fee structure, passion for the business.
• Entrepreneurial, innovative working style and original.
• Highly transparent approach to search.
• Participatory and high touch engagement style, solution seeking behaviour and ability to work collaboratively with clients to deliver compelling executive search, organizational and human resource management strategies.
• Retained search firm working on industry-standard exclusivity principle.
• A platform that helps link candidates across geography and industry to suitable opportunities in the development sector.
• Successful work and unparalleled delivery capacities to manage needs of international organizations who want to hire top talent in the Asia region.
• Significant body of work with a range of international foundations, think tanks and development agencies.
• Access to the Indian Diaspora and a large pool of international executives.

Unique Characteristics

Specialisation

Third Sector Partners is a generalist firm but maintains sector specialization. We have developed significant traction and intelligence around the following sub-sectors:

• Public Health
• Education
• Environment & Sustainable Development
• Child related issues
• Microfinance & Livelihoods
• Social Ventures & Entrepreneurship Development
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Sustainability
• Climate Change, Energy, Clean technology

Our proprietary knowledge base gives us access to analytical information and benchmarks on organizations and best practices, salaries and human resource structure/management and a talent pool within a large number of social/developmental domains.

HIGH LEVEL OF REFINEMENT
A search is most effective only when our experience helps optimize our client's time. Clients meet only the shortlist of candidates but after reviewing a comprehensive analysis on each prospect.

LEVELS OF HIRE
TSP has core competence to hire across levels. We have recruited several CxO positions for pre-eminent clients. Of course, the process and engagement style would differ depending on the level of hire.

LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP
We work with select clients who represent our ethical and business standards. We have a proven record of being our clients' preferred partners over extended periods.

Achievements

In a short span of four years, Third Sector Partners has achieved recognition as India's leading search firm for leadership and key management positions across International NGOs, Indian NGOs, bilateral aid agencies, academic institutes, foundations, corporates and social / environmental ventures.

We have created one of the country's first and unique international recruitment service-platform dedicated to the development sector.

Years since inception	-	4
Mandates completed	-	200 plus
Clients	-	50 plus
Crossover Candidates*	-	25

*Cross-over candidates are candidates who were successfully sourced from the corporate world for development sector / NGO opportunities.