About the job

Job summary

This position can be based in London or National

Job description

Organisation Details

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 400 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.

Job description

• Management of Compliance Team shared mailbox, ensuring GDPR requests and queries are responded to within set KPIs.
• Manage and monitor enforcement tools, ensuring these are issued to Coastal colleagues and actioned appropriately, in line with KPI’s and Compliance Directions/Enforcement tool. Flagging anomalies or poor performance with senior managers for escalation.  
• Contribute to the development of enforcement tools as well as the production of internal and external guidance for compliance and enforcement purposes. 
• Contribute to the establishment and maintenance of a single SharePoint site for compliance management, enforcement guidance and reporting and monitoring tools. 
• On behalf of the Operations Directorate, maintain and update the MMO Blue Book, as and when changes to existing or the introduction of new legislation requires amendments. 
• Manage the process for IFCA access to MCSS, including registration, deregistration and cost recovery. 
• To contribute to the work of internal working groups to help deliver projects and services to improve coastal operations. 
• Assist with the management of RIPA applications, including monitoring review dates, liaising with and supporting the surveillance team and managing the equipment. 
• Work with the Intelligence Team to help provide evidence for risk and enforcement priorities. 
• Contribute to MMO internal guidance and training, including but not limited to marine licensing, with a focus on consideration of environmental impacts and implications. 
• Contribute to the review and production of internal and external environment and wildlife guidance for compliance and enforcement purposes in liaison with Marine Conservation Team and wider Compliance Team and MMO colleagues. 
• Provide input from an enforcement point of view into wildlife and environment bylaws and HPMAs. 
• Assist to maintain internal and external wildlife and environment networks with ongoing engagement around wildlife and environmental issues. This includes providing secretariat for the UK PAW marine working group meetings. 

Stakeholder Management  

• To develop operational contacts within the Intelligence Team, Coastal Operations, Marine Conservation Team, Statistics and Analysis, MMO finance, MMO Communications, MMO Training, MMO Legal and IFCAs for enforcement and monitoring purposes. 
• To maintain a network of wildlife and environment enforcement contacts including but not limited to – Police, RSPCA, EA, IFCAs, Natural England, DEFRA and NGO stakeholders.

Continuous Improvement 

• To complete mandatory training within agreed timescales. 

Day to Day 

• Achievement of personal targets and KPI’s  
• Ensure that the MMO values and code of conduct are embedded in your daily activity and you provide feedback to others  
• Comply with all MMO policies and procedures at all times 
• Develop customer and stakeholder relationships to enable mutually satisfactory results 
• Maximize opportunities to continually learn about your role and yourself  
• Support corporate initiatives as required  
• Positively promote the MMO “brand” outside of the organisation 
• Any other reasonable duty as defined by the organisation 

Please refer to the candidate pack for full job details.

FAILURE TO USE THE MMO CV TEMPLATE ATTACHED WILL RESULT IN YOUR APPLICATION NOT BEING SIFTED.

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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Working for 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.