About the job

Job summary

This position is based Nationally

 

Job description

Summary

This influential and rewarding role offers you the opportunity to use your geospatial knowledge and management skills to support and improve the Marine Management Organisation’s (MMO) capability to gain insights, make decisions, and communicate across all areas of work, particularly Marine Planning, Marine Licensing, and Fisheries Management.

Description

This role sits within the Data, Technical Assurance, and Information (DTI) Team, part of the Digital & Analysis (D&A) Directorate.

You will use agile service and product owner skills and techniques to discover user needs and lead the strategic development and technical implementation of geospatial data, metadata and GIS solutions across the organisation. You will also represent MMO business needs in Defra Group digital and data transformation activities. 

You will lead and develop you team in the analysis, management, distribution and publication of geospatial data, tools, and applications.

You will have the opportunity to work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders and suppliers. With a passion and enthusiasm for the real-world application of geospatial data and GIS, you will help provide direction and build a positive inclusive team to champion user need and deliver strategic solutions for a UK government regulator. 

You will work closely with colleagues across the DTI team, to coordinate and champion your inter-related services.

Responsibilities

The post holder will:

• Manage and develop a team of data and GIS officers
• Manage and develop the MMO ESRI ArcGIS Platform to meet user and business needs, and provide value for money
• Lead the provision of technical support and advice on the analysis, management and presentation of marine geospatial data
• Ensure the appropriate documentation of MMO GI processes and systems
• Develop a GI community of practice to ensure knowledge sharing and consistency in GI analysis and management across the MMO.
• Lead the development of guidance on GIS, including relevant policies, training, and communications.
• Build and foster close relationships with Defra Group GIS colleagues to ensure that common data and GIS policy and solutions meet MMO needs.

Travel may be required to MMO’s Head Office in Newcastle upon Tyne for occasional team meetings/face-to-face contact.

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Person specification

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Benefits

Alongside your salary of £38,730, Marine Management Organisation contributes £10,495 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.