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Job summary

This position can be based at Harwich, East of England

Job description

The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

We license and regulate marine activities in the seas around England and Wales so that they're carried out in a sustainable way.

We’re responsible for:

• Managing and monitoring fishing fleet sizes and quotas for catches.
• Ensuring compliance with fisheries regulations, such as fishing vessel licences and quotas for fish and seafood.
• Managing funding programmes for fisheries activities.
• Planning and licensing for marine construction, deposits and dredging that may have an environmental, economic or social impact.
• Making marine nature conservation byelaws.
• Dealing with marine pollution emergencies, including oil spills.
• Helping to prevent illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing worldwide.
• Producing marine plans to include all marine activities, including those we don’t directly regulate.

More information about our work is on the GOV.UK website.

Job description  

Job Purpose

Managing a team of MOs, working closely with marine stakeholders, carrying out inspections, collecting data and information and giving advice and guidance. This is a varied role and will involve both desk work and work outside of the office. In addition to the shore-based aspects of this role, you may have opportunity to spend some periods of time conducting inspections of fishing vessels at sea as part of a boarding team based on a fisheries patrol vessel.

You will be responsible for the planning of inspection, monitoring and enforcement activities using risk profiles, intelligence, and the MMO’s Compliance Enforcement Strategy. You will be required to undertake practical enforcement action including conducting investigations, compiling case files and attending court when required.

You will be required to work closely with other agencies and teams including teams from across the MMO, Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities, The Royal Navy, UK Border Force and partners in the Joint Maritime Operations Coordination Centre and National Maritime Intelligence Centre.

You will be required to have both local, national and international situational awareness and be able to promote the MMO's interests and priorities amongst other marine stakeholders. Due to the activities of our stakeholders, there is sometimes a need to work out of office and unsociable hours including weekends, for which you will be appropriately recompensed.

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Person specification

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Benefits

Alongside your salary of £31,614, Marine Management Organisation contributes £8,567 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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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.