Marine Officer Kings Lynn and Lowestoft Is Active -

Marine Officer Kings Lynn and Lowestoft Is Active -

Marine Management Organisation
Full Time 25726 - 28753 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Details

Reference number

273257

Salary

£25,726 - £28,753

Job grade

Executive Officer
Marine Officer (N)

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Operational Delivery

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

4

Contents

    Location

    About the job

    Benefits

    Things you need to know

    Apply and further information

Location

East of England

About the job

Job summary

This position can be based at Lowestoft, Pakefield Road

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, time at sea 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

Job description

FAILURE TO USE THE MMO CV TEMPLATE ATTACHED WILL RESULT IN YOUR APPLICATION NOT BEING SIFTED.

MMO enforcement activity is predominantly carried out by staff that are located in one of MMO’s 16 coastal offices. Our work seeks to ensure and promote compliance with the European Commission and national sea fisheries regulations, marine licensing and marine nature conservation legislation.

We co-ordinate programmes for monitoring, control and surveillance of sea fishing activity, marine licensable activity and marine conservation measures within the EEZ around the coast of England and for UK vessels outside those waters.

We primarily seek to educate and inform marine sectors to promote compliance with the various regulatory requirements. We also investigate and take appropriate enforcement action, including prosecution, when serious breaches of the regulations are identified.

Activities of Marine Enforcement Officers include:

Monitoring and assessment of fishing activity through receiving data systems

Undertaking risk assessment and intelligence gathering

Inspections of fishing vessels in port, and possibly at sea

Inspections of fishing industry premises, including fish markets and fish merchants etc

Inspections of marine licensable activities

Monitoring and inspection of activities which may affect marine protected areas (MPAs) or protected species

Undertaking investigations into incidents of non-compliant activities

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

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%

Things you need to know

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 Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
  • relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
  • certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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.

Apply and further information

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Further information

https://networkrecruitment.tal.net/vx/appcentre-5/brand-10/candidate/so/pm/1/pl/6/opp/4963-4963-Marine-Officer-Kings-Lynn-and-Lowestoft/en-GB

Marine Officer Kings Lynn and Lowestoft Is Active -
Marine Management Organisation

www.gov.uk/mmo
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
John Tuckett
Unknown / Non-Applicable
201 to 500 Employees
Non-profit Organisation
National Services & Agencies
2010
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