(Nov. 17, 2016) Whether it’s related to the installation of the new Ocean Pines Association Board of Directors in August or just coincidence, a rash of vacancies at various leadership positions has occurred.
At present, OPA must fill the general manager slot, created this summer by the termination of Bob Thompson, find replacements for retiring Controller Art Carmine and departing Marketing and Public Relations Director Teresa Travatello, and fill the void of Recreations and Parks Director Sonya Bounds.
The association is looking to hire an IT professional, a position that has been budgeted for years, but was posted for perhaps the first time this week. Another position, a full-time “project assistant,” was also recently posted on the association website.
A GM want ad was posted online in September but, according to interim General Manager Brett Hill, that did not generate any satisfactory applicants.
During a board meeting on Oct. 23, Hill indicated the association was doing well in attracting a replacement for Carmine, but not so well in finding a suitable general manager.
“At this point, I do not think we need to move forward with the outsource recruiting for the director of finance,” he said. On the other front, however, two recruiting firms had declined to bid on a request for proposals for the GM job.
“We need to go further into the resources for recruiting,” he said at the time. “I would say we are looking at a budget expense, out of the operating fund, it will be greater than $15,000 and could be $30,000 potentially for the executive recruiter.”
During a budget discussion on Monday, Hill said the IT position had just been posted online “and that Ocean Pines had “a need right now” for the role, in part, because Travatello had been fulfilling the needs of multiple positions.
“[She] has been the PR, the marketing, the IT, the social media,” he said. “I can’t see how we can hire a marketing/PR person and an IT person in the same person and [have them] do their jobs effectively.
I have the two positions in the budget, so in light of the fact that the person that’s been doing all of our IT work has resigned and won’t be with us in a few weeks, I need to fill that void. Otherwise, I’m going to have a very, very expensive contractor bill for every desktop support password reset,” Hill added. “We are a real enterprise and we have 100 users on the network that are calling her on a daily basis for support, and I don’t see her replacement being the support mechanism.”
In a separate interview following the meeting, Hill said Bounds’ position was being terminated and that Aquatics Director Colby Phillips would fill the role internally, along with recreation and parks workers Katie Goetzinger and Debbie Donahue.
“The roles are being split amongst existing staff,” he said.
At present, OPA must fill the general manager slot, created this summer by the termination of Bob Thompson, find replacements for retiring Controller Art Carmine and departing Marketing and Public Relations Director Teresa Travatello, and fill the void of Recreations and Parks Director Sonya Bounds.
The association is looking to hire an IT professional, a position that has been budgeted for years, but was posted for perhaps the first time this week. Another position, a full-time “project assistant,” was also recently posted on the association website.
A GM want ad was posted online in September but, according to interim General Manager Brett Hill, that did not generate any satisfactory applicants.
During a board meeting on Oct. 23, Hill indicated the association was doing well in attracting a replacement for Carmine, but not so well in finding a suitable general manager.
“At this point, I do not think we need to move forward with the outsource recruiting for the director of finance,” he said. On the other front, however, two recruiting firms had declined to bid on a request for proposals for the GM job.
“We need to go further into the resources for recruiting,” he said at the time. “I would say we are looking at a budget expense, out of the operating fund, it will be greater than $15,000 and could be $30,000 potentially for the executive recruiter.”
During a budget discussion on Monday, Hill said the IT position had just been posted online “and that Ocean Pines had “a need right now” for the role, in part, because Travatello had been fulfilling the needs of multiple positions.
“[She] has been the PR, the marketing, the IT, the social media,” he said. “I can’t see how we can hire a marketing/PR person and an IT person in the same person and [have them] do their jobs effectively.
I have the two positions in the budget, so in light of the fact that the person that’s been doing all of our IT work has resigned and won’t be with us in a few weeks, I need to fill that void. Otherwise, I’m going to have a very, very expensive contractor bill for every desktop support password reset,” Hill added. “We are a real enterprise and we have 100 users on the network that are calling her on a daily basis for support, and I don’t see her replacement being the support mechanism.”
In a separate interview following the meeting, Hill said Bounds’ position was being terminated and that Aquatics Director Colby Phillips would fill the role internally, along with recreation and parks workers Katie Goetzinger and Debbie Donahue.
“The roles are being split amongst existing staff,” he said.