We provide a bespoke recruitment service for key sports appointments. We have supported a distinguished range of clients including the RFU, more than one quarter of England's CSPs, local authorities (including Leeds City Council and Sandwell MBC) and professional clubs (including all 12 current Rugby Premiership clubs) to define management roles and recruit principal staff at CEO and director level.

To further enhance our expertise in the specific areas of executive search, board audit, competencies assessment, member recruitment and development, we have established a partnership with Garner International (GI) www.garnerinternational.co.uk: an acknowledged leader in this field. It provides services for FTSE Top 100 companies, PLCs, SMEs and private companies in the UK, Europe, the Pacific Rim, the Far East and the United States.

Collectively, KKP and GI bring a balance of extensive UK sport sector knowledge plus the capacity to support you. The full service that we offer covers:

• Evaluation of your organisation's needs and requirements
• Job/role analysis and development of person specifications
• Identifying and contacting suitable candidates - across the World 
• Advertisement, short-listing and interviewing
• Board audit, competencies assessment and development
• Psychometric services

We can also support induction programmes, coaching for successful candidates and those preparing to take up new appointments and subsequent related mentoring and challenge processes.

Both KKP and GI believe in building strong, open and honest relationships with clients and candidates. This is crucial to ensure that our clients get the best talent to drive them forward and to successfully deliver the required outcomes.

Some key jobs in sport are simply not like any other sector. ‘Generic' skills are required but these must be applied and married to a genuine understanding and ‘feel' for the role or the sport. Few, if any, in the field offer the combination of understanding, skill at defining and describing roles and tasks and the excellent range of formal and informal contacts that John brings to recruitment at CEO and director level.... Andrew Scoular - Director of Rugby; RFU