About the job

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 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.

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

More information about our work is on the GOV.UK website and you can read the MMO’s Story here.

Job description 1  

The role of Principle Marine Officer (PMO) Investigations is a pivotal role, you will manage a team of  Investigating Officers, ensuring investigations are undertaken in accordance with national criminal procedure guidelines and MMOs investigative processes.

The successful candidate will manage investigations into suspected fisheries; marine licensing; nature conservation; grant fraud and Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing offences.

The role holder will make appropriate sanction decisions for investigations, ensuring those decisions are compatible and consistent with internal guidance material, the MMO Compliance and Enforcement Strategy, previous sanction decisions and the Code for Crown Prosecutors.

The Principal Marine Officer Investigations will work closely with teams across the MMOs Operations Directorate, other government agencies and devolved administrations, with a particular focus on working in conjunction with the PMO for intelligence and risk.

Personal performance

• Maintain routine engagement with coastal, operational and legal teams to identify, progress and finalise investigations.
• Ensure investigations records are updated to reflect the status and outcome of each case, producing reports for senior managers highlighting performance against KPI targets.
• Ensure all investigative actions are compliant with PACE Codes of Practice and requirements. 

Finance

• Ensure value for money through effective and efficient use of resources.

 

Stakeholder Management

• Maintain strong working relationships with environmental and fisheries law enforcement partners including devolved administrations, identifying opportunities for joint working.

Continuous Improvement

• Constantly seek to improve investigative practices ensuring consistency with other law enforcement agencies and established best practice.
• Contribute towards training of staff across the organisation in the best practice of investigative procedures.

People Management

• Ensure the development and skills of the team members are fit for purpose, workloads are manageable, a wellbeing-focused and positive culture is maintained, innovation and creativity are encouraged, and performance is managed.

• Manage personal performance of your individual team members through scheduled performance reviews and regular one to one meetings ensuring personal aspirations are discussed and supported where possible
• Work collaboratively with other Principal Marine Officers to share best practice and ensure consistent standards
• Ensure organisational priorities are communicated and understood by your team and empower them to cascade further
• Provide opportunities to develop resilience and support succession planning.

 

Day to Day

• Achievement of personal targets and KPIs
• 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

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £37,062, Marine Management Organisation contributes £10,043 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

Please refer to Job Description

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

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

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.