Chief Officer Recruitment to the Structural Option Agreed under the SORP Review 2019
To consider the report of the Chief Executive.
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Minutes:
Consideration was given to the report of the Chief Executive, as contained on pages 3 to 100 of the Book of Reports, which outlined the process for the Redeployment Interviews, for the posts of Corporate Director of Place and Community and Corporate Director of Transformation and Resources and the internal interviews for the post of Interim Chief Operating Officer.
The Head of Human Resources and Organisational Development provided a training session on the interview process.
The Committee was advised that, as approved by Council on 10 July 2019, as their previous posts had been deleted from the new organisational structure and at risk of redundancy, the Director of Housing and Inclusion (JSL) and the Director of Leisure and Environment (HMc), had been offered ring-fenced interviews to the posts of Corporate Director of Place and Community and Corporate Director of Transformation and Resources, via the Chief Officers Committee, including the post of Interim Chief Operating Officer, pending the recruitment of a Chief Operating Officer.
The Committee considered a schedule of suggested interview questions prepared by the Chief Executive and the Head of Human Resources and Organisational Development and agreed that these would be used during the interviews for the Corporate Director of Place and Community, the Corporate Director of Transformation and Resources and the Interim Chief Operating Officer and noted that the Council's policy required that the same questions be put to all candidates during their interview.
The Committee was informed that each of the candidates for interview had prepared a presentation for the Interim Chief Operating Officer post.
The Committee conducted the Redeployment Interviews for the Corporate Director of Place and Community and the Corporate Director of Transformation and Resources and the interviews for the Interim Chief Operating Officer.
The Committee assessed both candidates interviewed to determine their respective performances during interview, the quality of their presentation and their relative abilities and against the Job Description and Person Specification relating to each position.
RESOLVED: A. That the Head of Human Resources and Organisational Development be authorised to offer the post of Corporate Director of Transformation and Resources to Ms J Sinnott-Lacey with effect from 4 November 2019.
B. That the Head of Human Resources and Organisational Development be authorised to offer the post of Corporate Director of Place and Community to Ms H McDougall with effect from 4 November 2019.
C. That the Head of Human Resources and Organisational Development be authorised to offer the Corporate Director of Transformation and Resources, Ms J Sinnott-Lacey, as set out in A above, the post of Interim Chief Operating Officer for the period from 4 November 2019 until the appointment of a permanent Chief Operating Officer, following external recruitment, subject to Council approval on 16 October 2019.