Important advice on completing your application
The decision to invite you for longlist (first) interview is based on the information you give in your application. Available via this website, you can access the job and the person specification for the post – provided when you fill out the entry fields with brief details on each role’s specific webpage: Growth or Skills or Finance. You should read the webpage and the JD+PS carefully as the information will help you to decide if you wish to apply for the job. This includes the Scope, Duties and Responsibilities of the role, followed by the Person Specification which lists the Qualifications and Experience, the Knowledge, Skills Abilities and the Personal Qualities needed to do the job.
The Qualifications and Experience items are only those which candidates should respond to in their supporting statement. This statement will be used during the assessment of written applications to select longlisted candidates, so those taken forward to first technical interviews. Then the full list of items (therefore the Knowledge, Skills and Attributes) will be referred to during all interviews and assessments.
Please see further information in the tabs below to help you produce your best application. We have provided advice to help you to produce a good application. Please take your time to review this before submitting your application. The advice will enable you to maximise the impact of your application.
Please note:
- the timetable may change. Any changes will be indicated here on this recruitment website. If in doubt, please contact us.
- please contact Mark or Steve or pv@proventureconsulting.co.uk if you have a disability and wish to make alternative arrangements. If you have difficulty in completing your application we will be happy to consider an alternative application, eg: tape or Braille.
- should you require any adjustments to be made to the selection process arising from any disability please notify us of your needs.
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Timetables
| Economic Growth + Innovation | Date |
|---|---|
| Closing date | 16 September 2024 |
| Technical (First) Interview | w/c 21 October TBC (Newcastle) |
| CEO 1:1 discussion (Teams/phone call) | w/c 18 November |
| Assessment session and Final Panel interview | TBC |
| Skills, Inclusion and Public Service Reform | Date |
|---|---|
| Closing date | 16 September 2024 |
| Technical (First) Interview | w/c 07 October TBC |
| CEO 1:1 discussion (Teams/phone call) | w/c 11 November TBC |
| Assessment session and Final Panel interview | w/c 18 November TBC (Newcastle) |
| Finance and Investment | Date |
|---|---|
| Closing date | Monday 07 October |
| Technical (First) Interview | TBC |
| Assessment session and Final Panel interview. | w/c TBC (Newcastle) |
Help in compiling your application can be found on the Proventure Website. Your application for the role should be made up of:
- A completed CV
- A covering letter, explaining your interest in the role and outline of your current salary package. Also, please include details of any connections or relationships you may have with employees, councillors or their families at NECA.
- A response to the 7 Qualifications and Experience requirements listed in Part One. Note To access the JD+PS (if you have not already done so) please go to the role’s specific web page and go to the bottom of the page. Here you can fill out your contact details, click submit and you will be taken to the JD+PS PDF. It might be worth saving the PDF for future use to save you time filling out your details again.
- A completed Equal Opportunities Form NECA
Please indicate in your covering letter if there are any dates when you would be unavailable for interview.
In responding to the required Qualifications/Experience criteria items, you should consider your own experience and suitability for the role. We suggest that you take each criteria item individually and then provide your evidence point by point. For each item outline the role in which you have shown the necessary experience and how you have demonstrated this (the skills and behaviours you have displayed). You should then provide one good example for each item, describing the challenge or issue you faced, what you did and the outcome achieved. Outcomes should be concrete, clearly quantified or evidenced.
You should aim to use no more than one third or half a page for each item response to the criteria; bullet points are OK. Please do not get fixated on the length of the application but try to avoid being over long.
In your cover letter please also provide the names, positions, organisations, email address and telephone contact numbers of two individuals who could be approached as referees, one of which should be from your existing/last employer. We will only approach referees if you are invited to attend the final stages of the process, and will only do so having first requested your permission. Also, please outline your current remuneration and any dates on which you would be unavailable for interview.
Please remember to complete the Equal Opportunities Form NECA. We use the information to help us in assessing the effectiveness of our Equal Opportunities Policy.
Applications should be emailed to Mark Tobin mark.tobin@proventureconsulting.co.uk with the job number and title in the subject field:
Ref: 788 Director of Economic Growth and Innovation – NECA
Ref: 789 Director of Skills, Inclusion and Public Service Reform – NECA
Ref: 790 Director of Finance and Investment
If necessary, post applications can be made but please inform us by email to make arrangements.
Please note that the timetable may change. Any changes will be indicated on this recruitment website. If in doubt, please contact us to discuss.
We have provided more information on this Proventure website that will help you to produce your application. Please take your time to review this before sending your documents to us. The information provided will give you the tools you need to maximise the impact of your application.
If you have any queries about this appointment, about your application, or would like an informal and confidential discussion, please contact Mark Tobin on 07717 725 844 or Stephen Cooley on 07747 698829. They will be pleased to take your call.
Please contact Mark or Steve if you have a disability and wish to make alternative arrangements. If you have difficulty in completing your application we will be happy to consider an alternative application, eg: tape or Braille.
Should you require any adjustments to be made to the selection process arising from any disability please notify us of your needs.