Search begins for new Cork City Council CEO
The position, which attracts a salary of €182,280, will see the preferred candidate responsible for an annual budget of €292m to run the city through its 1,600 staff.
The recruitment process to appoint a new CEO of Cork City Council has commenced.
The Public Appointments Service is seeking candidates for the role with the new head to be appointed for an initial seven-year term with the option of a three-year extension.
Ann Doherty, the current CEO, has been in the position since 2014 with her tenure coming to an end in September.
CEOs are recruited through a competitive process organised by the Public Appointments Service and formally appointed by the minister for local government and ratified by the city councillors.
The position, which attracts a salary of €182,280, will see the preferred candidate responsible for an annual budget of €292m to run the city through its 1,600 staff.
Advertising the position, the Public Appointments Service said up to €2.5bn is being invested in Cork over the next five years with significant investment in housing, sustainable transport, parks, public spaces, and climate resilience forming part of a wider €10bn investment pipeline over the next 10 years.
"Cork is emerging as an international centre of scale requiring significantly accelerated and urban-focused growth to more fully achieve this role," the recruitment notice states.
The coming months will see a range of high-profile recruitments and appointments across Munster to senior positions within local authorities and semi-state bodies.
In January, the Public Appointments Service advertised the role of CEO of Cork County Council following the departure of Tim Lucey last October, who left to take over as CEO of Greyhound Racing Ireland.
Valerie O’Sullivan, Cork County Council’s southern divisional manager is currently acting as CEO until a permanent appointment is made.
Moira Murrell's 10-year term as CEO of Kerry County Council comes to an end this year and recruitment began in March for the position of chief of Waterford City and County Council after CEO Michael Walsh's 10-year term came to an end.
The Port of Cork is also recruiting a new CEO with current chief Eoin McGettigan stepping down this month after almost four years in the role.
The election will also take place this month of a directly-elected mayor of Limerick, the first such role in the country.
Ms Doherty became the first female chief executive of the city council when she took up the role in 2014 following a career in the HSE including the role of CEO of the University of Limerick Hospitals Group.
Within months of her appointment, she was thrust into the city boundary review process, which after several reports, reviews and tense negotiations, led in 2019 to the first extension of the city boundary since 1965, growing its population by 85,000 to 210,000.
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