Executive Interim
You might need someone to bridge the gap for six months, or you might be someone looking for their next senior interim role. Either way, our consultants will give you the support you’re after. In our Interim practice, we have extensive experience and expertise. It means we can advise you on the best approach to secure diverse, high-quality candidates and support interims land their next assignment in a great organisation.
While we’re the leading recruiter in local government, we also have dedicated functional teams. We’re the home of public sector finance and have a unique partnership with the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA). This partnership offers unrivalled access to the best finance professionals across the UK. We also have a dedicated HR practice, providing interim and HR consultancy solutions across the local government, HE and not-for-profit sectors.
Our Enterprise team also use their expertise and networks gained in their commercial sector and Board recruitment to secure technical and commercial skills for public sector C-Suite and Board positions.
For any enquires contact us via email at interim@penna.com
Case Study
Islington Council
The challenge?
Islington Borough Council’s mission is to ‘create a place where everyone, whatever their background, has the same opportunity to reach their potential and enjoy a good quality of life’. But the council was in a period of transition. A number of the senior leadership team had either secured new positions or retired, including the Chief Executive and Director of Adult Social Services & Housing.
Meanwhile the council had recently made the decision to bring their ICT services back in house from a shared service. They therefore had a need for a Corporate Director of Resources, a Chief Information and Digital Officer as well as several interim project and programme managers with specific focus on the shared service arrangement.
Our solution?
Penna interim helped steady the ship by appointing all of these senior interims.
We took a detailed brief of Islington’s long-term goals and the type of individual which would fit well in their organisation. Penna provided a shortlist of suitable candidates which we’d carefully vetted to ensure a good fit for the brief as well as the council culture.
It was critical that the interims were confident, could hit the ground running, and deliver a swift impact. So Penna’s interim consultants fully briefed and supported the successful candidates, including the Head of Paid service appointee that was making a transition from a permanent to interim role.
And the results?
All candidates successfully completed their interim assignments. Our appointed Head of Paid service had this to say about our Penna team:
“They are a really friendly bunch which makes it easy to have an ongoing relationship with them, you feel like you’ve known them for a long time. They are very clear on the briefs. They know they are contacting you because you are right, you know it’ll be a productive process and not a waste of time”
