Executive Search and Selection Services for Director of My Place

Barking & Dagenham's Ambition 2020 Programme is seeking to make major changes to the organisation to deliver the vision for the borough and to be financially sustainable against cuts in public spending. The A2020 documents set out an ambitious approach to provision of excellent services in the borough, set out in the following:

'The Council of the future will need to excel at five things:

• Providing consistently outstanding customer service
• Shaping a place that people choose to live in
• Being commercially minded and financially self-sufficient
• Building public engagement, greater responsibility, and civic pride.
• Reducing service demand

The development of a property, asset and infrastructure management entity - My Place within the Council is part of A2020 and key to delivering the 5 elements above.

My Place will be the Council's landlord managing agent, managing all existing building and land assets and related contracts on its behalf. Its aim is to provide excellent property and infrastructure management services at a competitive price.

The role of Managing Director: My Place is being created at LBBD. This role will report to the Strategic Director Customer, Commercial and Service Delivery.

We wish to engage an external provider to support the recruitment process for this role. The post is to be advertised externally and we will require full search and selection support.

Full details about the role and its requirements can be found in the attached brief.

Additional information: Suppliers Instructions How to Express Interest in this Tender~: 1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once) - Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://lbbd.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register - Accept the terms and conditions and click 'continue' - Enter your correct business and user details - Note the username you chose and click 'Save' when complete - You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure) 2. Express an Interest in the tender - Login to the portal with the username/password - Click the 'PQQs / ITTs Open To All Suppliers' link. (These are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires or Invitations to Tender open to any registered supplier) - Click on the relevant PQQ/ ITT to access the content. - Click the 'Express Interest' button at the top of the page. - This will move the PQQ /ITT into your 'My PQQs/ My ITTs' page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only) -You can now access any attachments by clicking 'Buyer Attachments' in the 'PQQ/ ITT Details' box 3. Responding to the tender - Click 'My Response' under 'PQQ/ ITT Details', you can choose to 'Create Response' or to 'Decline to Respond' (please give a reason if declining) - You can now use the 'Messages' function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification - Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ/ ITT - There may be a mixture of online & offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available) You must then submit your reply using the 'Submit Response' button at the top of the page. If you require any further assistance please consult the online help, or contact the eTendering help desk.