HR and Development
Director of Human Resources: Emma Lochhead
GovGap
GovGap is a new COI service that provides interim recruitment solutions to government departments and agencies.
The pace of change within government can be fast. As a result, departments often need access to talented and experienced marketing and communications professionals to fill gaps at short notice.
With a pool of talented professionals, GovGap provides easy and flexible access to experts to meet all your communications needs, including press office, marketing, strategy, research, digital media and internal communications.
If you have an interim recruitment gap that needs filling, please contact GovGap, or alternatively you can call John Ellery or James McCrorie on 020 7921 2744.
If you are interested in becoming a GovGap candidate, please see the information on our Careers page.
Recruiting specialist communications staff
In partnership with the Cabinet Office's Government Communication Group, COI can help you recruit specialist communications professionals to GCN standards.
Our service includes:
Recruitment advertising: using your job description or proposed advertisement copy, we'll deal directly with our specialist recruitment agency on your behalf. And we can create an advertisement and plan a media schedule for you.
Response handling: we can deal with all application requests and queries that arrive via email, post and telephone. After the application closing date, we'll give you a long-list of all candidates.
Preliminary quality check of applicants: we can check through all the application forms to remove any that don't meet your pre-defined criteria.
On a project-by-project basis, we can also:
- sift application forms; and
- issue interview invitations and provide supporting administration
For more information contact John Ellery, Deputy Director of HR, or James McCrorie, Head of Resourcing.
