2. Identification and Engagement of ‘Industry-Leading’ Candidates Based on the briefing discussion and our experience and understanding of the sector we would conduct a comprehensive research exercise to identify those individuals within the HE sector that have similar portfolios of responsibility to those found in the role at the University of Bristol. We would seek to understand the scale and nature of HEI (such as teaching and research profile, reputation and ranking, operating model, physical environment etc) and the portfolio of services managed by the potential target candidate. Based on our understanding of the role and the above factors we would propose that candidates may emanate from the following pools: • COO and Registrar from a smaller HEI – could be a smaller research-led HEI (ex 1994 group etc), a modern HEI or a niche research institution • Director of Academic Services / Academic Registrar from a comparable organisation such as another Russell Group HEI. • Large portfolio Director (Deputy COO / Deputy Director of Academic Services / Deputy Registrar etc) seeking to make a step up from a ‘No 2’ role into a ‘No 1’ role. We would search across the UK higher education market but would also recommend considering those internation- al markets where HE provision appears to have synergies such as Australasia, North America, Northern Europe and Ireland. If the candidates that we identify possess a good match to the role at the University of Bristol across the majority of factors we would seek to engage with them about the opportunity.
This specific brief for the direct search would of course be discussed in detail at the briefing meeting before being agreed and executed.
Based on previous relevant campaigns we typically approach between 50 and 200 target candidates depending on the nature of the brief.
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