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Job summary

This position is based nationally

Job description

The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Driven by government’s aim for clean, healthy, safe, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas, MMO’s purpose is to protect and enhance our precious marine environment, and support UK economic growth by enabling sustainable marine activities and development.

We are the independent regulator for England’s seas, professionally delivering service-focussed outcomes for our customers.

We are a team of around 500 people and combine our Newcastle upon Tyne and London operations with a local presence around the English coastline in Brixham, Beverley, Harwich, Hastings, Lowestoft, North Shields, Hayle, Plymouth, Poole, Portsmouth, Preston, Scarborough, Shoreham, Whitehaven.

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This is a really exciting time to join the MMO as we become an independent coastal state, embedding new repatriated functions and services with an increased focus on the protection and enhancing of the marine environment.

Within this role, you will support the Compliance Team in maintaining monitoring, updating and reporting of industry compliance with relevant legislation, and general compliance with environment and wildlife legislation, and monitoring, updating and reporting on MMO enforcement activities undertaken by MMO operational teams. You will contribute to national consistency between local offices and help to provide information to both support the delivery of activities, services and provision of management information to senior managers. You will support the wider Compliance team with responding to and managing queries through the Legislative Queries SharePoint site and Compliance Team mailbox. This role will offer support to the wider Investigations and Enforcement Team where required, and assist in maintaining internal and external networks with environment and wildlife stakeholders and colleagues.

For full details of the job description, please see attached Candidate Pack.

Please complete a personal statement of no more than 500 words detailing how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for this role. Please also upload your CV to the site using the MMO CV Template and follow the instructions to remove personal details (including name, address, contact details and education establishments) so we can fairly assess applications that do not contain personal information.

Please note: YOUR APPLICATION WILL NOT BE SIFTED IF YOU DO NOT USE THE STANDARD MMO CV TEMPLATE. THIS WILL RESULT IN YOUR APPLICATION BEING WITHDRAWN.

Person specification

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Benefits

Alongside your salary of £27,489, Marine Management Organisation contributes £7,449 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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Selection process details

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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.