Town Manager Search Services

The Vendor is required to provide town manager search reports to a 5-member select board and is assisted in their work by an assistant to the town manager and a dedicated team of department heads and other municipal employees.
- Executive search consultants experienced in recruiting municipal executives in state to assist the town in recruiting highly qualified candidates to serve as next town manager.
- Requirement:
•    Consultant shall assist the select board in establishing selection criteria for evaluating town manager candidates. 
•    Consultant shall work with the select board to develop descriptive documents for prospective candidates. 
•    The descriptive documents shall include background statements, skills, attributes and expectations regarding the town manager position for prospective candidates as well as marketing information regarding the town for distribution to prospective candidates, and any other documents deemed reasonable. 
•    Consultant shall conduct networking and other search activities to generate a diverse pool of highly qualified prospective candidates who meet the select board’s selection criteria. 
•    Consultant shall prepare advertising for the position and assist in the selection of media for publication. 
•    Consultant shall focus on identifying potential candidates and screening them for suitability with the town.
•    Consultant shall work with the select board and screening committee to review resumes of qualified applicants, schedule interviews with the screening committee and then, with finalists, with the select board. 
•    Consultant shall provide training and guidance to the screening committee and select board in areas of human resources best practices and legal requirements and instructions applicable through the process as necessary. 
•    Consultant shall check references on finalists, extend the offer of employment, review benefits, and generally assist in the hiring process in ways and at the times requested by the select board or the town’s human resources department. 
•    The select board may designate a sub-group of select board members to negotiate the contract terms with the new town manager. 
•    Consultant shall provide sufficient notification to all candidates who applied but were not selected for initial interviews and, also for those interviewed but not offered the position. 
•    This will be done by providing a letter approved by and signed by the select board chair thanking the candidates for their interest, but advising them they have not been selected. 
•    Consultant shall act at all times in an attentive, ethical, and responsible manner so as to represent the town with the utmost concern for its interests, goals and image with candidates, other communities, and members of the general public.