The Dunedin City Council has confirmed Wellington-based recruitment consultancy JacksonStone & Partners will aid the council in finding a replacement for outgoing chief executive Sue Bidrose. But the council remains tight-lipped about how the process will unfold.
"As you know, we are limited in what we can say while the chief executive recruitment process is ongoing," a council spokesman said.
JacksonStone would support Dunedin Mayor Aaron Hawkins and councillors "to finalise the position description, and a standard advertising and recruitment process will follow".
Last week, the council declined to say when the chief executive’s job would be advertised and did so again yesterday.
This week the Otago Daily Times asked for a timeline indicating when the job would be advertised and the appointment made; who created the short list of candidates; who conducted interviews; whether the candidate selected to offer the job to was selected by the entire council; and what the budget for the recruitment process was.
"Further announcements will be made in due course," the spokesman said yesterday.
Dr Bidrose, who was appointed to the chief executive role in November 2013, announced on Wednesday that she was to become the chief executive of Crown-owned agricultural research institute AgResearch next month.
Last week the council’s chief executive appointment committee met in a public-excluded session.
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The budget tally starts right now. We'll pay someone in Wellington fees. Just love these corporate types, big fees from a never ending money pit called the public purse.
There are people right here in Dunedin, who know Dunedin and how it works. The last thing Dunedin needs is another 'career CEO', from afar.
Trade Me vacancies?
Seek.com?
Linkedin.com?
Careers.govt.nz?
nzjora.com?.........To name a few.
Na.....Too easy....Let's just waste more money getting an outside consultancy firm to do it for us!
After-all, it's not like it's our own cash, right?!...Let the ratepayers fund it.
Another waste of money, something the council seems to love doing, when their own staff could do the whole job search thing themselves and save a heap of money from leaving our city. And surely it should be a local person but I bet he council chooses someone from up north.