About the job

Job summary

This is a Nationally based role

Job description

Organisation Details

The MMO CV Template must be used. Applications made not using the template will be rejected. 

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 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 

The MMO CV Template must be used. Applications made without using the template will be rejected. 

Summary

This influential and rewarding role offers you the opportunity to use your geospatial knowledge and management skills to support and improve the Marine Management Organisation’s (MMO) capability to gain insights, make decisions, and communicate across all areas of work, particularly Marine Planning, Marine Licensing, and Fisheries Management.

Description

This role sits within the Data, Technical Assurance, and Information (DTI) Team, part of the Digital & Analysis (D&A) Directorate.

The Senior Technical Assurance Specialist will interpret and analyse complex information, across a diverse spectrum, including technology, system integration, IT supply chain delivery and business requirements, to effect technical assurance and alignment of new and existing systems to Defra and HMG standards.

Coordinating and supporting the Technical Design Authority in the provision of governance across a range of IT suppliers. You will ensure efficient use of IT technical resources by detailed data gathering and analysis techniques. You will also ensure technology best practice and work with colleagues to improve knowledge and capability.

 The delivery of the technical assurance remit will contribute to the achievement of MMO’s objectives and standards.

You will have the opportunity to work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders and suppliers. You will help the delivery of the technical assurance remit that contributes to the achievement of the objectives and standards of a UK government regulator. 

Responsibilities

As Senior Technical Assurance Specialist, you will:

• Provision technical assurance input across a wide variety of business services, using your extensive technical and ITIL framework knowledge to benefit the delivery of new projects and existing system changes to support delivery of MMO Strategic goals.
• Assist in the delivery of IT Technical Assurance artefacts and the presentation of these in a format to enable data derived senior management decisions, up to and including Senior Civil Service (Director) level or equivalent.
• Be responsible for and shape the utilisation of systems and processes, to accurately collect, collate, analyse, and document all forms of IT Technical Specialist augmentation resource requests, allocation, and expenditure, including sensitive contractual data. With recommendations delivered in an efficient format to support decision making up to and including Senior Civil Service (Director) level or equivalent.
• Working with DDTS colleagues, interpret technology choices and systems integration in a meaningful way, which allows the identification of issues, and provide specialist input into making effective change provision to support delivery of MMO Strategic goals.
• Support the Governance model by the planning, scheduling of monthly Technical Design Authority Meetings, including timetabling preparatory work, circulating Agendas and associated papers ensuring they are available in a timely manner.
• Accountable for the maintenance of the inventory of IT design artefacts and the development of technical assurance business flow documentation to MMO standards.
• Work collaboratively with internal and external technology delivery teams, business SMEs, to build to build strong relationships and implement optimum ways of working.
• Ensure compliance with privacy policies, legislation and confidentiality is always maintained.

You will be supported in continuing your professional development, including IT industry standard certifications.

Travel may be required to MMO’s Head Office in Newcastle upon Tyne for occasional team meetings/face-to-face contact.

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Person specification

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Benefits

Alongside your salary of £38,730, Marine Management Organisation contributes £10,495 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.