Researcher

GatenbySanderson

Leeds

  • Location Leeds
  • Sector Local Government, Housing
  • Client GatenbySanderson
  • Job Type Permanent
  • Reference GSe131156
  • Closing Date TBC

Role Purpose
A Researcher will assume responsibility for the research and successful sourcing of candidates through to application on the assignments you manage within your Practice area. Researchers are typically the first introduction to GatenbySanderson from within the candidate and therefore the potential client pool. We expect all researchers to probe candidates, offering information and feedback and to analyse market feedback and record and share this information widely through our database and weekly client progress reports. Working on four assignments at any one time, the role will be responsible for ensuring that client, consultant and candidate experiences are exemplary, with expectations being set appropriately throughout the project(s). This Research role will remain involved from early pipeline through until long listing has been completed.


Depending on the level you join, your role may be required to contribute to proposals, carry out sifts or play a valuable role within client meetings. We also encourage Research to be at the heart of content creation for thought leadership, social media updates, articles in industry publications and Practice insights.

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Essential duties

Key Responsibilities
Business winning
✓ Espouse the values of GS and share with confidence to candidates, who may later become clients, the points of GS differentiation.
✓ Identify different cues which might indicate that candidates are experiencing a change in life circumstances which could lead to other opportunities, or different types of engagement with GS e.g. approaching retirement, identifying and creating referrals where there might be opportunities for candidates to take an Interim role, a NED career path or be in need of LTC’s services.
✓ Capture practice insights on the systems and share with Consultant colleagues as appropriate.
Briefing
✓ Attend client briefing meetings either virtually or in person. Use this opportunity to gathering information and an opportunity to shape and guide the search.
✓ Demonstrate your growing knowledge of the market place by asking informed, well positioned and searching questions, showing a relentlessness with investigation of the brief.

Search
✓ Scope and conduct market mapping research, working in partnership with Consultants to ensure a thorough and robust approach.
✓ Approach potential candidate pools in a way that promotes further enquiry and discussion. Pre-empt and prepare lines of enquiry which uncover candidate career
ambitions and current circumstances, aligning information to specific searches where possible.
✓ Ensure that you have consciously sought to approach and attract a diverse candidate pool and considered your approach to minority groups.
✓ Develop exceptional market insight, developing candidate communities for current and future searches across Executive search and interim leadership as appropriate.
✓ Seek candidate referrals and demonstrate an ability to build long term candidate relationships and networks.
✓ Deliver excellent client ready weekly progress reports on all assignments and share candid candidate information with Consultants ahead of client updates.
✓ Brief the sifter on the role progress and applied search talent pool.

Long listing and assessment
✓ Conduct online reference reviews, searching all social media forums and previous press which could later questions the credibility of the candidate. Performing due diligence searches on all presented candidates.
✓ Inform colleagues at regular intervals of search progress, ensuring that Consultants are supportive of reports being shared.

Experience required

Raise the bar:
Your Experience
This role requires someone who is passionate about client and candidate experience, delivering results, and driving increasingly high standards of delivery.
For this role it is essential for someone to have the following experience:


✓ Ability to conduct credible, structured, and well thought through conversations with senior stakeholders
✓ Evidence of having created strong relationships over the phone
✓ Ability to think laterally about problems and challenge the status quo
✓ Insightful judgement and analytical skills
✓ Strong written skills, and experience of expressing both complex and compelling information in written form
✓ Project management skills and strong prioritisation techniques
✓ A resourceful approach to creating, sharing and using knowledge and information from across multiple stakeholder to achieve business results
✓ Ability to assimilate complex information and from multiple channels
✓ Track record of influencing and persuading others or inspiring a curiosity and intrigue in others.
✓ Comfort with using social media and other internet applications to conduct research
✓ Intellectually curious and capable, a creative lateral thinker
✓ Excellent collaboration & networking skills with the demonstrable ability to listen, build loyalty & rapport
✓ Capability to demonstrate discretion, able to operate in politically sensitive environments on behalf of our clients.
✓ Resilience, resourcefulness and tenacity
✓ Excellent attention to detail and a track record of high standard written work


For this role we ideally need someone who has the following technical skills & knowledge:


✓ An understanding of the executive search environment
✓ Familiarity and comfort in having exploratory conversations with c-suite candidates
✓ Comfort and skill using Boolean search techniques and various social media

Personal style & approach
• Focus on self
o Courage and tenacity – self composed, self-motivated and resilient
o Engender trust – transparent, open, trusting, sensitive and visible
o Curious and agile – inquisitive, hungry for learning, flexible and adaptable
• Focus on people
o Make relationships count – interested in others and cares for relationships
o Influence and impact – strong communicator, considers personal impact on colleagues
o Build team unity – positive, supportive and encouraging of cross team working
o Promote collaboration – involves others, connects colleagues across the business
• Focus delivery
o Strategic clarity – seeks to understand team and business vision and objective
o Tackle tomorrow – challenge status quo, and makes suggestions to drive continual improvement
o Future proof talent – develops talent, promote and embraces diversity and inclusion

 

About the employer

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We find and develop leaders to shape a better society


GatenbySanderson is the UK's foremost public and not-for-profit sector recruitment and
people development business. We find and develop exceptional leaders to navigate complex
challenges and transform public services.


We operate within complex markets that frequently undergo change and are subject to high
degrees of governance, external audit and public scrutiny. We are known for our ability to
appoint to ‘difficult to fill’ or challenging, high profile roles and have a national reputation for
our work across government, board capability, regulation, health, education, housing and not
for profit organisations.

More about our Local Government Practice
No one has more experience of hiring into senior positions for local government than we do. Our Local Government Practice excels in an ever-shifting landscape where complex integration
and partnership arrangements continue to evolve. We look further to find the leaders of the future. Our cross-sector reach enables us to build intelligent relationships and share insight: from health to social care; assets to enterprise and growth and place to finance and resources we thrive on sharing learning and securing the right expertise for organisations at different points in their journeys. We have an excellent track record, placing more Children's and Adult Service senior leaders than any other search provider and have placed over 200 Interims on assignment over local government in the last 12 months.

 

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