About the job

Job summary

Why JNCC?

We’re small enough (c.300 staff) that your voice is heard by everyone including the CEO, but big enough that we have all the skills, resources and people you’ll need to get the job done. All our staff are passionate about conservation and making a difference to the world we live in. We have a very flexible, inclusive and welcoming organisational culture. Our Executive Management provides employees with the freedom and tools you will need, and our friendly team will assist you in your role. JNCC is committed to maintaining employee health and wellbeing, whether it is physically, emotionally, financially or socially, and offers a range of benefits to support employees in this. Such benefits include the option to join the Civil Service Pension Scheme, professional and personal development opportunities as well as an exciting job in a unique environment.

Post background

JNCC are looking for two Marine Monitoring Managers to join the Marine Monitoring Team and lead on the planning and delivery of our offshore UK marine surveys and associated projects. Using your knowledge of marine biodiversity and offshore benthic surveys, you will help develop, plan and implement surveys and manage delivery of survey data analyses and reports for marine monitoring of offshore UK waters. There will also be a focus on exploring whole ecosystem monitoring by incorporating the use of Natural Capital Approaches (NCA) into future monitoring practices. The posts involve substantial project management, working with partners and stakeholders to ensure complex work programmes are delivered on time and in budget.

You will work under the guidance of JNCC’s Marine Monitoring Team Leaders, with a range of other specialists, both within JNCC and in other organisations, including with colleagues in the country nature conservation bodies (NatureScot, Natural England, Natural Resources Wales, Department for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Northern Ireland) and other public bodies (e.g. CEFAS, Marine Directorate, MMO, Environment Agency).

Job description

Post Duties

• Manage complex marine monitoring projects to ensure all targets are met and budgets are well-managed;

• Ensure offshore MPA monitoring surveys are well planned and fit for purpose through the development of MPA monitoring objectives and survey specifications, organising survey staffing, identifying the needs of other JNCC marine teams and liaising with external partners to manage survey delivery;

• Ensure the Marine Natural Capital and Ecosystem Approach (mNCEA) benthic work programme led by the JNCC Marine Monitoring Team is well managed, working with delivery teams and external partners to ensure project deliverables and budgets are met and the project delivers its ambitions to better understand the offshore benthic natural capital assets and future monitoring.

• Ensure new and outstanding offshore MPA survey reports and monitoring reports are completed and published;

• Manage sample processing and analysis contracts, including the drafting of specifications and undertaking of procurement;

• Ensure quality assurance of survey deliverables;

• Liaise with other organisations on offshore survey related activities; and

• Line-manage and supervise a small team to deliver the work described above.

Most of the work will be office based, but there may be opportunities to participate in field surveys at sea (for up to several weeks at a time). The post-holder will be required to work with colleagues in JNCC’s Peterborough and Aberdeen offices, and may also be required to attend meetings in UK and overseas, involving overnight stays away from home.

Person specification

Please demonstrate in your statement of suitability your reasons for applying.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £38,320, Joint Nature Conservation Committee contributes £10,346 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a statement of suitability. In your statement, refer to the responsibilities and experience section of this advert to show how you’re suitable for the role.

Please use the STARR technique

• Situation: Set the stage. 
• Task: Explain where you fit in. 
• Action: Describe each step. 
• Results: Impress with your achievements.
• Reflection: what have you learned 

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.