Issue - meetings

UPDATE ON THE TRANSFORMATION ROLES

 

 

Meeting: 25/04/2014 - Chief Officer Appointments Panel (Item 89)

89 Appointment of an interim Head of Portfolio Office (E1)

To appoint to the post of interim Head of Portfolio Office and consider the remuneration for the post.

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Minutes:

Members interviewed a candidate for the post of interim Head of Portfolio Office and received a schedule of daily rates as comparators of the market rate for the post. 

 

Agreed that Sue Thomas is appointed to the role of interim Head of Portfolio Office, for a period of six months, on a daily rate of £644 per day (in line with the City Council’s Pay Policy Statement), pending a recruitment process to the permanent role.

 

Meeting: 11/04/2014 - Chief Officer Appointments Panel (Item 73)

73 UPDATE ON THE TRANSFORMATION ROLES (E1)

The Chief Executive will provide an update on the transformation roles and the panel will be asked to seek a way forward for the recruitment to the interim and permanent posts of Head of Business and Technology Architecture and Head of Portfolio Office.   

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Further to minute 68, a report was considered on a recommended approach to the recruitment of the interim and permanent posts of Head of Portfolio Office and Head of Business and Technology Architecture.

 

The panel also considered the role profiles for the posts and information was provided on steps taken to seek details of the remuneration rates for interims working in Business and Technology Architecture roles.

 

Further information would be provided at the Appointments Panel on 25 April 2014 on the remuneration of interims undertaking Head of Portfolio Office duties.

 

Agreed -

 

(1)

to interview the candidates for the posts of Interim Head of Business and Technology Architecture and Interim Head of Portfolio Office to test and approve their suitability to undertake the work. If suitable, to enter into new interim arrangements for six months to give time for the jobs to be fully evaluated by the Hay Group;

(2)

the remuneration of the interim post of Head of Business and Technology Architecture, would be based on current market rates, it was noted that the interim currently in place was working at a rate considerably less than some whose services were offered. It was also noted that the comparable cost of obtaining these services through a company specialising in this type of work was likely to be significantly higher;

(3)

a report on the strategy for filling both these role on a permanent basis, along with a Hay Grading following a job evaluation process is to be submitted to the Appointments Panel in June 2014.