The Cover Club
Currently recruiting members
Want to be part of The Cover Club? We’re recruiting people with solid experience in communications, the third sector, service design and non-technical digital roles.
Our offer to
Employers
Too often maternity cover is seen as a financial and skills drain on your organisation. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Turn parental leave into an opportunity by recruiting cover that adds value while your talent is away and won’t be angling to stay when they return.
We only work with candidates who are looking specifically for maternity or parental leave roles, and who know how to do the job so it works for the post-holder and the organisation.
Can’t imagine why someone would do that? Take a look at our offer to club members.
What’s more, we’ll support the soon-to-be-parent and their cover to prepare for the transition with coaching, planning and setting expectations, so there are no lumpy handovers or difficult returns to work.
Make parental leave the best thing that happens to your organisation
Being part of The Cover Club means making senior roles work for you
Our offer to
Cover Club Members
We only work with senior executives, directors and C-suite employees who are more than qualified for the job.
Joining The Cover Club is a liberating experience. By doing parental leave roles, our members can operate at a senior level without the long-term commitment of a permanent position or the overheads of lining up the next (and next and next) consultancy contract.
Our members choose maternity roles for a range of reasons:
You want a better work/life balance that leaves time for other important projects, like family
You want a steady income to supplement other work
You want experience of a new sector without the commitment
You want to ease back into the workplace after a break
We’ll take on the overhead of finding your next contract and negotiating the things that make a role work for you, like part-time hours or remote working.
Our story
I’m Bea, an experienced leader across digital and the third sector, and a serial maternity cover employee.
The way we think about maternity cover is broken and I’m on a mission to change that.
From small businesses which see it as an impossible expense, to multinationals which rue the loss of trusted executives, this negative casting of an important life stage is a huge missed opportunity.
I’ve done maternity cover for a range of reasons — a bridge to help me relocate, the chance to see if a dream job really was a dream job, and to keep my hand in while I reorganised my working life after having children.
When I’d done a couple of maternity cover roles, more and more people asked me to do their cover. I couldn’t do them all! And so The Cover Club was born.
I know how unsettling it can be to be the person taking leave. You need someone who is going to do a great job, but who knows they’re there for limited period only. No drastic changes and no quiet ambitions to stay on.
Removing the stigma around maternity, adoption and parental leave is critical if we’re going to see more men sharing leave and tackle the gender pay gap that kicks in after women have kids. Kids need hands-on mums and dads, and mums and dads need to know their jobs are in safe hands while they’re away. That’s what The Cover Club is all about.
Get in Touch
If you’re a business looking to make the most of maternity, adoption and parental leave, or you’re an individual who thinks The Cover Club could work for you, get in touch with Bea directly.
No need to send a CV, just drop us a couple of paragraphs explaining what you can offer and what you’re looking for.