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Job summary

This position is based Nationally

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 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.

We also have colleagues based in Defra offices, including Bristol, Cambridge and York where we share office space

Job description 

As the UK is a newly independent coastal state, this is a really exciting time to be joining the MMO and to be involved in fisheries management, as we embed new repatriated functions and services with an increased focus on the protection and enhancing of the marine environment.

From a fisheries perspective, the UK is now responsible for managing fishing-related activities in its own waters, and the UK Government has set a clear ambition to become world class in its approach to this.  The MMO has a significant role to play in this in English waters, as recognised through its strategic goal of delivering sustainable fishing opportunities.

As part of the Sustainable Fisheries function of the MMO’s Operations Directorate, the Fisheries Management Team has a key role to play on this through the provision of effective and customer-focused fisheries services, as well as leading on the development and delivery of new approaches to fisheries management at a national, regional and more local level.  Owing to the increasing importance and scale of this work, leadership of the Fisheries Management Team is being split into two G7 team leader roles, of which the Head of Fisheries Management (Fishing Opportunities) role is one. Between them, these two team leaders will be responsible for the successful and effective delivery of the Team’s activities and in doing so, ensuring that it works in partnership across the MMO,  with senior colleagues within Defra, its arms-length bodies and the UK Fisheries Administrations as well as senior representatives in the fishing industry, recreational fishing sector and environmental non-government organisations.

As much of the Team’s work is new, the nature of these roles will develop over time and the postholder will need to adapt to any changing responsibilities that this may bring.  For core responsibilities please see candidate pack.

Person specification

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Benefits

Alongside your salary of £51,300, Marine Management Organisation contributes £14,312 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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Security

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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.