Track Record

Our Policy and Research division has more than ten years’ recruitment experience. During this period, it has developed strong working relationships with candidates and clients from a wide range of backgrounds (not for profit, public and private sectors).

As one of the UK’s leading policy and research recruiters, we have an exceptional track record in matching the needs of employers and candidates to help businesses grow, and careers thrive. We are proud to say many of our candidates become clients, and our clients become candidates.

We have developed exceptional working relationships with an extensive network of clients including: ACCA, Age UK , Breakthrough Breast Cancer, British Library, Cancer Research UK, Care Quality Commission, Department of Energy and Climate Change,Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Communities & Local Government, East Thames Housing Association, Equality and Human Rights Commission, General Medical Council, General Social Care Council, HMRC, Home Office, London Councils, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Matrix Knowledge Group, Mckinsey, Ministry of Justice, National Employment Savings Trust (NEST, formally PADA), National Savings And Investment, Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (OFGEM), Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, Postcomm, RNIB, RNID, Royal College of Nursing, Samaritans, UK Sport, Volunteering England, Youth Justice Board for England and Wales, Westminster City Council, London Borough of Lambeth, London Borough of Camden, London Borough of Waltham Forest, London Borough of Croydon, London Borough of Lewisham, Luton Borough Council and the NHS across the country.

Recent positions filled by Morgan Hunt, in this sector include: assistant practitioner scoping project - Royal College of Nursing, junior research analyst - Mckinsey & Co, policy development manager and assistant policy manager -OFGEM,business project manager - Lifelong Learning UK, research policy officer - General Medical Council, research officer - The Law Society, levy policy officer - Pension Protection Fund, qualitative analyst - Ministry of Justice, policy officer - Royal College of speech and Language, director of policy - Prince’s Royal Trust for Carers, research manager - General Dental Council, senior social analyst - Equality and Human Rights Commission, economic analyst - Department for Culture Media and Sport, market intelligence officer - Postcomm, senior research officer - Ministry of Justice, development researcher - , London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London Borough of Richmond - assistant head of democratic services, Central Bedfordshire Council - head of passenger transport services, London Borough of Hillingdon - joint commissioning manager, London Borough of Lambeth - service improvement manager and policy innovation officer, London Borough of Redbridge - head of strategy and Westminster City Council -
adults’ safeguarding coordinator.

When the Development Agency for Schools (TDA) elected to transfer from central London to Manchester to save costs, the move involved the loss of approximately 85% of the 200 strong work force. In order to overcome this and maximise their organisation's future potential they aimed to attract the very best talent available in the north of England and subsequently engaged Morgan Hunt as a delivery partner to help in the achievement of this objective.

Our brief was to provide a permanent recruitment solution that would identify and attract the best talent available in the market in order to recruit to all Band 4 vacancies across the agency. Robust processes of vetting and assessment needed to be developed to ensure that the people best able to excel within TDA were recruited. Manchester is a cosmopolitan city with a diverse population and it was essential for us to develop a recruitment strategy that was fair and open and would result in a workforce that reflected this multiplicity.

We appointed a project delivery team consisting of an account manager, two senior consultants and two resourcers. Additionally, representatives from our Quality Assurance, Marketing and IT divisions were also drafted in to share their own expertise and offer guidance. All members of the team were also set performance targets in line with the SLAs agreed with the TDA.

Our marketing department produced a comprehensive cross-media twelve-month marketing strategy that was designed to reach a wide audience of suitable potential applicants. This strategy proved to be very fruitful and we received over 2,000 applications. Each applicant underwent a two-phase assessment process that measured their skills against the TDA’s competency framework. Those candidates that were successful were fully vetted. Candidates who progressed beyond this point were entered into a talent pool. When vacancies were released we submitted the most appropriate applicants from the talent pool for final TDA approval.

We successfully recruited to all 78 band 4 vacancies across TDA. Our work has been praised by the key stakeholders including the TDA’s chief executive.