TEAM SIZE: 30+

Meet Vanderbloemen

Vanderbloemen serves churches, schools, nonprofits, and Christian businesses through innovative staffing, compensation, succession, and consulting solutions. 

Founded in 2010 by William and Adrienne Vanderbloemen, the company was started out of a deep passion for local churches that would have pastoral vacancies for years, thus minimizing their effectiveness in their communities. After pastoring for 15 years and then working as a corporate Executive Search Consultant, William believed there was a better way to help churches move through this transition.

Vanderbloemen now has over 30 employees working for the firm. We have successfully completed more than 3,000 searches in 49 of the 50 states in the U.S. and eight countries around the world.

While Vanderbloemen can staff any position at any size organization, the bulk of our work is made up of searches for senior-level staff. 

Searches involving Senior Pastor succession are an area of particular expertise. In addition to search work, the firm also provides services in staff consulting, succession planning, diversity consulting, and compensation analysis.

About the Role

The Executive Search Consultant will serve as the point person for executive searches at the firm, develop new relationships, and connect with clients.

The Executive Search Consultant's responsibilities include:

Searches - Be the primary “face” for Vanderbloemen in carrying out our search work. 

• Demonstrate a high level of discernment for finding where candidates “fit” within active Vanderbloemen searches.
• Learn the Vanderbloemen systems and offer creative input on improving those systems.
• Manage 14 or more active searches at a time and execute those searches in accordance with your training and our uniform systems.
• Proactively engage with difficult searches and identify potential candidates.
• Create new systems for research related to searches.
• Demonstrate proficiency in interviews (Zoom and in-person) and enhance the current process by creating new systems for interviews.

Client Relations & Business Development - Build relationships with pastors, non-profit executives, and Christian school leaders, both current and future clients. 

• Work closely with VP of Consulting and VP of Marketing on planning and hosting regional roundtables on a routine basis with the purpose of networking, hosting, and providing Vanderbloemen thought leadership for these practices.
• Attend local church and Christian leadership conferences and denominational meetings.
• Collaborate with VP Marketing on creating local/regional videos and social media featuring this region.
• Serve local Christian organizations by providing staff lunches and speaking at staff meetings.
• Build relationships with organizations who are considering utilizing Vanderbloemen services by hosting regular business development meetings.
• Develop relationships with current and former Vanderbloemen clients through regular visits.
• Meet monthly goals for business development and relationship activity (emails, phone calls, texts, visits, meetings, etc.).
• Maintain administrative database management for business development in this region.

Overall

• Build strong relationships with the Vanderbloemen team and contribute to the Vanderbloemen culture.
• Able to keep up with a travel schedule away from home.  
• Assist other Executive Search Consultants as needs arise.
• Write and submit content regularly as a resource to church leaders.
• Serve on ad-hoc teams from time to time to help Vanderbloemen solve problems or take steps into a new market or product offering.
• Work full-time for Vanderbloemen (other jobs must be approved).
• Lead non-search jobs for Vanderbloemen as needed, such as consulting, training, teaching, etc.

What you bring

Education

A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university is preferred. Seminary training is a plus.

Experience/Skills

The new Executive Search Consultant must have an entrepreneurial spirit and be an organizational builder. The successful candidate will likely have extensive experience working in a large church, para-church ministry, and/or Christian nonprofit. He or she will have proven experience in leadership, creative thinking, problem-solving, and organizational development. They are likely known by others to be organized, detail-oriented, relational, self-motivated, and high-capacity.

Personal Characteristics

• Passionate about the Church and its mission, including those churches that might differ from personal theology.
• Is a self-starter; a person who is strongly motivated and shows initiative.
• Has likely led in large organizations in the past, and is content joining the team in a non-leadership position.
• Exhibits a spirit of flexibility and is willing to accept and lead through change.
• Has high relational skills and can thrive in any room, whether sitting with a candidate or in a boardroom of a large organization. 
• Has a demonstrated high level of integrity, guided by a sound set of moral principles.
• Has the ability to engage our clients with a mix of professionalism, compassion, and wisdom.
• Has the organizational and administrative ability to keep up with hundreds of details for each search and client relationship without missing key dates or dropping balls (Executive Search Consultants do not have administrative support).
• Has a chemistry that ‘fits’ with the Vanderbloemen ethos and culture.
• Has a strong work ethic and high energy.
• Is technologically savvy, likely the early adopter of new apps and devices.
• Is a team player and team builder who focuses on the good of the entire organization and can inspire others to work together to achieve organizational excellence.

What it's like to live in Houston, TX

Houston is the 4th largest city in the United States and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of 579 square miles. Houston is the home of the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest concentration of healthcare, research institutions, and NASA's Johnson Space Center, where the Mission Control Center is located. Rated as a global city, Houston's economy has a broad industrial base in energy, manufacturing, aeronautics, and transportation. It is also leading in health care sectors and building oilfield equipment; only New York City is home to more Fortune 500 headquarters. The Port of Houston ranks first in the United States in international waterborne tonnage handled and second in all cargo tonnage handled. The city has a population with various ethnic and religious backgrounds and a large and growing international community. It is home to many cultural institutions and exhibits, which attract more than 7 million visitors a year to the Museum District. Houston has an active visual and performing arts scene in the Theater District and offers year-round resident companies in all major performing arts.