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Dear West Suffolk Council,

Human Resources

What were the interview questions for the role of Head of Corporate Governance and Legal (and Monitoring Officer)?

What were the guided/model answers which accompanied the above role please?

What did the interview process comprise please? I.e. interview and presentation or psychometric testing etc?

Yours faithfully,

Linsey Preston

Shand, Craig, West Suffolk Council

Hi Linsey

 

Thank you for your email.

 

We do not employ a Head of Corporate Governance and Legal (and Monitoring
Officer) and I can not find any record of a vacancy with that title. Is it
definitely a West Suffolk Council role that you are enquiring about?

 

Kind regards

 

Craig

 

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Craig Shand Assoc CIPD
Senior HR Business Partner
Human Resources
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Email:  [email address]
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Dear Craig,

Many thanks for your response, it's much appreciated. Do you have a Head of Legal or a Monitoring or Deputy Monitoring Officer please? My request relates to this role or similar.

Yours sincerely,

Linsey

Shand, Craig, West Suffolk Council

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Shand, Craig, West Suffolk Council

Hi Linsey

 

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you.

 

The closest role we have to that is Service Manager (Democratic Services)
& Monitoring Officer and below is the response to your request:

 

What were the interview questions for the role of Service Manager
(Democratic Services) & Monitoring Officer?

 

 1. What attracted you to apply for this post? Why West Suffolk?
 2. What will you achieve in the first 100 days? What will be different
and what will success look like?
 3. What will you bring to our organisation? Give us an example of a
situation where your personal contribution made a difference?
 4. How will your style of leadership enable West Suffolk to positively
achieve its priorities?
 5. Part of the role is conflict resolution: describe a situation when you
have resolved a difficult issue and how you did it?
 6. Tell us how and when you have overcome resistance to change linked to
continuous improvement? What did you do and what was the outcome?
 7. Commercialism is high on the agenda in local government. What type of
risks will you expect to face and how will you deal with them?
 8. What do you think is the biggest challenge facing local government in
Suffolk and the wider public sector?
 9. What has been the most challenging issue that you have dealt with?
What was the outcome that you wanted and did you achieve it?
10. What is the biggest mistake you have made and how did you handle it?
11. What would your team and partners in other organisations say about
you, and what would you like to change about that?
12. You will need to be very politically astute in this role. What does
that mean to you and what have you done in the past that demonstrates
your political awareness?

 

What were the guided/model answers which accompanied the above role
please?

 

There were no model answers. Each question was scored using the following
criteria:

 

Fully met expectations - 3 points

Met some expectations - 2 points

Did not meet expectations - 1 point

 

What did the interview process comprise please? I.e. interview and
presentation or psychometric testing etc?

 

The assessment centre for this role consisted of psychometric testing, a
presentation, a written exercise and a formal interview.

 

If you are unhappy with this response you may request an internal review
of this matter via the Council’s corporate complaints procedure.

 

If, after an internal review, you are still unhappy with the decision, you
have a right of appeal to the Information Commissioner at the following
address:

 

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

Tel: 01625 545 745

Fax: 01625 524 510

Email: [1][email address]

 

Kind regards

 

Craig

 

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Craig Shand Assoc CIPD
Senior HR Business Partner
Human Resources
Mobile:  07956 772553
Email:  [email address]
[2]www.westsuffolk.gov.uk
West Suffolk Council
#TeamWestSuffolk

West Suffolk Council supports our staff to work flexibly and we respect
the fact that you may also be working at different times to suit you and
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Regulations and Data Protection Act 2018. In some circumstances we may
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because we have a legal requirement to do so. Any information about you
that we pass to a third party will be held securely by that party. For
more information on how we do this and your rights in regards to your
personal information and how to access it, visit our website: [5]How we
use your information
 

 

 

 

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