About the job

Job summary

Do you want to play an important role in tackling the climate change emergency by helping to enable the sustainable development of offshore wind in Scotland?

 

OCTOBER START DATE

The Scottish Government is preparing for the implementation of a new HR and Finance platform and, as a result, some job offers will be subject to an October 2024 start date at the earliest.  This will be confirmed as your application progresses.

 

This is a permanent post. The postholder will lead on the development and delivery of renewables science projects within R&E that address critical knowledge gaps relating to the sustainable delivery of offshore wind and other marine renewables. The areas of focus will include seabirds, marine mammals, benthic species and habitats, marine fish, fisheries, diadromous fish, underwater noise, oceanography, cumulative effects, ecosystem effects, compensatory measures, and nature positive outcomes. The post holder will manage the relationship with the ScotMER Programme located in the Offshore Wind Directorate, and work across Scottish Government to help ensure that critical knowledge gaps relating to offshore wind and approaches to addressing them are identified, and suitable funding is secured. This will require that the appropriate processes for costing, approval, and delivery of externally and internally funded research are followed. This role will involve close liaison with colleagues across the Marine Directorate and the Offshore Wind Directorate, and a collaborative approach with both internal and external stakeholders, and potential delivery partners. The post will maintain and enhance relationships with national and international partners to further enable collaborative working and accessing of external funding streams.

Whilst we anticipate the role will be focussed on issues related to offshore wind, we operate a flexible resourcing policy within the Marine Directorate and as such the post-holder may be required to work on other areas of high priority work as required.

Job description

• Manage the development of proposals, securing of funding, and delivery of a programme of projects across REEA that improve the knowledge base or assessment methodologies for marine renewable licensing.
• Lead on managing the relationship between R&E and the ScotMER team, and coordinate interactions between the two. This will include working with both teams to ensure that processes are fit for purpose and streamlined.
• Work with specialists within the R&E team to understand critical evidence gaps as well as areas where there are synergies between specialist areas both within the team and across other policy areas to enable strategic approaches to particular evidence gaps.
• Ensure that internal costing, approval, and budget management are followed for all projects, along with any additional processes for externally funded projects.
• Work with internal and external partners to identify future funding opportunities or other delivery mechanisms.
• The position may include people and delivery management

Person specification

• A good understanding of the marine environment and the potential impacts of anthropogenic activities upon key marine ecological receptors.
• Experience of leading the development of commercial, research or scientific project proposals and successfully obtaining funding for their delivery, including the development of collaborative partnerships.
• The ability to work independently with good organisational skills and effectively manage projects.
• Track record of successfully managing and delivering research projects to time and to budget.

Benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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Selection process details

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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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