Okaloosa County BOCC — November 4, 2012 — reading text

member of his/her management team will be asked to complete a questionnaire, utilizing a secure website. Following a review of the responses to the questionnaire, one of our professional consultants CITY OF SCOTTSDALE, AZ – CITY MANAGER RECRUITMENT will facilitate a three-hour workshop with the objective of assisting the team members to become a high-performance team. If you elect to use this service, there will be no professional fee charged to you, only project-related expenses. 360 DEGREE PERFORMANCE REVIEW Additional services include a performance appraisal and review of the new County Manager after 12 months, with no professional fee charged to you. If you elect to use this service, the only cost you would incur would be the reimbursement for any project-related expenses. Throughout the assignment, the WCG team will serve as technical advisors to your organization to ensure that the recruitment process is conducted in a professional manner. The objective of WCG is to generate high-quality candidates and assist you with the screening and evaluation of these candidates. Due to our extensive professional relationships with hundreds of public sector organizations and prospective candidates nationwide, WCG is positioned to confidently promote your County Manager position to prospective candidates as a positive career opportunity. With any consulting assignment, but particularly with an executive recruitment project, reliable and timely communication is fundamental to project success. At key points during the assignment, WCG consultants will communicate by phone, e-mail, or in person, with appropriate leaders from your organization to discuss the progress of the recruitment and to review subsequent steps in the recruitment process. These regular status reports are important to ensure success with the recruitment assignment. We pride ourselves in the fact that we bring a high level of personal commitment to everything that we do. We get to know our client, their concerns for success, their strategic goals and their organizational culture. But our intense professional commitment does not stop with our clients. We have candidates who were not selected for positions call to extend compliments and thanks for how they were treated during our recruitments. Many have stated that we provided the best recruitment experience in which they have ever participated. 14 Client satisfaction is important to all organizations, but to our firm, it is our chief focus. In our business, referrals and recommendations are the keys to success. © 2012-The Waters Consulting Group, Inc. This proposal contains proprietary information and is the sole property of Dallas | Austin | Cleveland | Denver WCG, Inc. It is not to be reproduced without the written consent of WCG, Inc. watersconsulting.com Packet Pg. 396  6.1.a.e ROLE OF YOUR ORGANIZATION’S STAFF We have a seasoned staff of professionals who will work with your Lead Consultants, Andrea Sims and Jim Holgersson, to deliver quality services with minimal effort required from you. However, to assist with the project, we ask that your organization designate a Project Manager Attachment: Waters Consulting Group (1222 : Search Firm for Position of County Administrator) to serve as WCG’s primary contact for the recruitment assignment. Your Project Manager will facilitate such functions as coordinating meeting dates, times, and locations and the review of the draft recruitment brochure and related advertising copy. Packet Pg. 397  6.1.a.e SECTION | 2 INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROJECT Attachment: Waters Consulting Group (1222 : Search Firm for Position of County Administrator) CITY OF SCOTTSDALE, AZ – CITY MANAGER RECRUITMENT 16 © 2012-The Waters Consulting Group, Inc. This proposal contains proprietary information and is the sole property of Dallas | Austin | Cleveland | Denver WCG, Inc. It is not to be reproduced without the written consent of WCG, Inc. watersconsulting.com Packet Pg. 398  6.1.a.e SECTION 2 | INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROJECT a. Provide a narrative describing the firm’s project plan, methodology (including recruitment strategy and affirmative action), and recommended solutions in performing the services described in this section and describe the specific policies, plans, Attachment: Waters Consulting Group (1222 : Search Firm for Position of County Administrator) procedures or techniques used in providing the services to be performed. TASK I RECRUITMENT BROCHURE DEVELOPMENT AND ADVERTISING The important first step in the recruitment process involves the development of a comprehensive recruitment brochure with a profile of the ideal candidate, including the required qualifications, professional experience, personal characteristics, and other factors related to success in the position of County Manager. The recruitment brochure will also have a profile of the Okaloosa County organization, recognizing any special needs of the county’s cities and towns. To prepare the recruitment brochure, the Lead Consultants will come on site to meet with your Commissioners and leadership team to discuss the required background and experiences and management characteristics for the new County Manager. We will also request organizational charts, budgetary information, operational reports, and other documentation describing the community, organization, current issues, and responsibilities of the position. We are aware of the strong reputation of the retiring Jim Curry as your County Manager and will work with the Commissioners in bringing you superior options for your next leader to work with him through the budget process so the transition can be as smooth as possible. Additionally, recognizing the commitment to a high quality of life for your community members, businesses and visitors, we would offer our services in developing a web based tool to collect from citizens and employees their input on the recruitment profile for the next County Manager. Should you choose to do the County Manager Profile Survey, we would report the results to the Board of Commissioners prior to their final approval of the profile. The draft recruitment brochure will be presented to you for review and final approval/edits prior to its publication and distribution to prospective candidates. We also know that Okaloosa County values its quality of life and commitment to excellent employees. In order to conduct an open recruitment and to encourage applications from a superior and diverse pool of candidates, WCG will work with you to develop an advertising and marketing strategy to notify potential candidates about the vacancy. WCG will provide you with the advertisements and an advertising schedule to place the ads in appropriate professional publications, websites and local print media as approved by you. WCG has a highly-accessed website, www.watersconsulting.com, and targeted e-mail (search@watersconsulting.com). We will use all available resources to communicate directly with prospective candidates. The aggressive advertising and marketing campaign for top talent will include national, state, regional, and local elements as determined during our initial meetings with your organization. Our presence at appropriate public sector conferences will be used to further promote the position. An effective advertising strategy will help to ensure that we conduct an open recruitment with appeal to a diverse array of candidates. WCG will take all necessary steps to protect against Packet Pg. 399  6.1.a.e discrimination in the screening and selection process. Experienced Candidates with relevant Florida experience as well as those with a record of success in the Southeast will be sought and included in the