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Blue Belt Head of Marine Management

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3. Candidate Information Pack
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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.
“The Marine Management Organisation is committed to its staff and believes in investing in their wellbeing and learning and development.
We strive to be an Organisation that creates an environment in which staff are able to identify and share good practice, celebrate success and encourage positive attitudes towards diversity.”
John Tuckett, CEO
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4. ABOUT THE WORK AREA – UK Overseas Territories Blue Belt Team
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ABOUT THE WORK AREA – UK Overseas Territories Blue Belt Team
What are we doing?
We are commissioned to deliver the UK Government’s commitment to enhance marine protection of over four million square kilometres of marine environment across UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) by 2020.
Specifically, in partnership with the UKOTs and stakeholders, we are (a) improving scientific understanding of the marine environment; (b) developing and implementing evidence-based, tailored marine management strategies, including novel and effective approaches to surveillance and enforcement. This is particularly challenging because the territories are very remote and sparsely populated areas; and (c) ensuring management is sustainable and long term.
Why are we doing this?
Because the UKOTs are home to over 90% of the UK’s biodiversity, it is vital that we put effective systems in place to protect these globally significant marine areas. We also need to ensure that we are able to provide the best, up-to-date scientific advice on how these thriving ecosystems can be supported and enhanced. We are also committed to helping the local populations maximise the potential economic and social gains that can be reaped from the Blue Belt Programme.
Who is involved?
The Programme is an innovative partnership between two world-leading agencies of the UK Government, the Centre
for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) and the Marine Management Organisation (MMO),
in partnership with the Overseas Territories, the FCO, Defra, NGOs, industry and the academic community. 
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CASE STUDY
Joanna Stockill – Previous Head of Marine Management
The Blue Belt team is a great team to work in, we are all very passionate about what we do and keen to get the best outcomes for the OTs. The team is dispersed, so it is really important to make sure that we all communicate effectively to make sure our work is integrated across our team and with Cefas. Meetings are important for this, either face to face or using other comms tools, and regular calls with the people I manage, or teams based out in the OTs are essential. You will need to be able to travel to meetings regularly, and occasionally overseas.
This role is important in making sure that science, data and evidence is used effectively in developing management strategies for the OTs, whether that be supporting MPA designation, or setting up a new system and legislation for licensing marine development activities, or developing management plans. You will oversee technical input and lead on projects which are relevant to a number of OTs, especially where these require collaboration across other delivery bodies or with other programmes. It is also very important to join up effectively with the Heads of Compliance and Enforcement to ensure management strategies are implemented. Being able to see the bigger picture and links with other drivers is important, but you will also need to be able to get into the detail and delivery.
There is considerable external scrutiny of the programme and our work attracts a lot of interest from MPs and other stakeholder organisations.
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6. Marine development and extractive activities
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Job Title: Blue Belt Head of Marine Management
Grade: G7
Location: Flexibility to be based from a number of MMO offices. Regular travel will be required to London, Newcastle and Peterborough.
Salary: £ 45,200 – 55,277
Non civil servants will start on the minimum
About the Job
As Head of Marine Management and a key member of the Blue Belt Team you will play an important role in ensuring that the MMO is successful in meeting the government’s commitment to double the area of ocean under marine protection across the UK Overseas Territories (OTs).
You will oversee the delivery of various projects for the overseas territories to support designation of MPAs and ensure that their waters are effectively managed and protected. This may encompass a wide range of marine activities including:
Recreation and tourism (recreational fishing, diving, wildlife watching etc),
Pollution management,
Marine development and extractive activities
Invasive non-native species
You will work closely with delivery partners to ensure an integrated approach is taken to management in the OTs.
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7. Main Duties and Accountabilities
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Job Title: Blue Belt Head of Marine Management
Grade: G7
Location: Flexibility to be based from a number of MMO offices. Regular travel will be required to London, Newcastle and Peterborough.
Salary: £ 45,200 – 55,277
Non civil servants will start on the minimum
Main Duties and Accountabilities
Provide the OTs with a framework to ensure effective marine management
Oversee delivery of management projects to support the OTs. Management will encompass various activities (e.g. tourism and development), aspirations (e.g. economic growth and environmental protection) and aspects of the system (e.g. policy, legislation and implementation).
Lead delivery of work where outcomes are relevant to multiple OTs or programmes, ensuring effective join up and collaboration, and ensuring value for money
Provide technical capability and capacity to ensure OT needs are met, and deliverables meet quality standards
Ensure the blue belt programme takes an integrated marine management approach
Support the compliance and enforcement team and ensure their work is fully considered across policy, legislation and management
Work closely with Cefas to ensure management is informed by best available evidence and management solutions are adaptive
Build and maintain a culture of delivery and team work with OTs and partners
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8. Main Duties and Accountabilities
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Job Title: Blue Belt Head of Marine Management
Grade: G7
Location: Flexibility to be based from a number of MMO offices. Regular travel will be required to London, Newcastle and Peterborough.
Salary: £ 45,200 – 55,277
Non civil servants will start on the minimum
Main Duties and Accountabilities
Engage across OTs, MMO, wider government and other stakeholders
Build good relationships with key contacts within each OT. Ensure engagement and input from relevant individuals and organisations from project inception to completion. Identify and build good relationships with other key stakeholders including relevant government departments, UK statutory nature conservation bodies, private sector and NGOs.
Promote joint working with the OTs. Promote joint working with other organisations currently working within the OTs to identify common goals and avoid duplication.
Set a strong direction and convey a persuasive future vision to all stakeholders. Ensure support and buy in.
Create long term cost effective management solutions
Support the OTs to identify sustainable funding opportunities including through fees and charges
Ensure management is fit for purpose
Identify needs and mechanisms to build capacity and capability within the OTs
Senior management and leadership role in the Blue Belt and MMO
Contribute to resource and budget management
Line management, performance reviews
Active role in senior leadership within the MMO
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Role Criteria
You must show demonstrable experience of
Relevant degree or significant relevant work experience gained in the UK or overseas
Experience implementing regulation and management changes in a marine context.
Experience working in integrated marine management context (legislation, policy, management, compliance, enforcement)
Highly articulate, with great leadership skills, comfortable influencing at senior levels;
Ability to work independently to deliver results within agreed timescales
Able to work in complex programmes, adjust quickly to change and generate new and innovative approaches to problems.
Experience of working with a range of stakeholders to secure buy-in and support on projects.
Desirable criteria for this role:
Knowledge of UK OTs context
Experience of delivering large scale projects including resource and budget management
Strong IT skills with a good working knowledge of all Microsoft packages.
Experience of managing people and/or delivering as part of a project team
Job Title: Blue Belt Head of Marine Management
Grade: G7
Location: Flexibility to be based from a number of MMO offices. Regular travel will be required to London, Newcastle and Peterborough.
Salary: £ 45,200 – 55,277
Non civil servants will start on the minimum
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Competency Profile
The core competencies for this role are
Making effective decisions (Lead Competency)
Seeing the big picture
Collaborating and partnering
Delivering at pace
Leading and communicating
Managing a quality service
For further information on the MMO competency framework please visit GOV.UK
Job Title: Blue Belt Head of Marine Management
Grade: G7
Location: Flexibility to be based from a number of MMO offices. Regular travel will be required to London, Newcastle and Peterborough.
Salary: £ 45,200 – 55,277
Non civil servants will start on the minimum
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How to Apply
All of our jobs are advertised on the Civil Service Jobs website.
You must download and complete a copy of the MMO CV Template as part of your application. This should
then be attached to your application.
Please note:- Your application will not be sifted if you do not use the standard MMO CV Template.
Once the vacancy has closed, you will be ed a unique link to enable you to complete the Civil Service
Judgement Test. You will have 5 days to complete the test.
Sift and Interviews
Applications will be sifted using your Civil Service Judgement Test Score, and your CV to establish whether
you meet the essential criteria.
Please note:- Feedback will not be given at sift stage.
The interview will consist of a 10 minute presentation (topic to be confirmed in invite to interview) followed by
a 1 hour 15 min competency and technical interview.
Further Information
If you have any questions about applying for this role please contact:
Name: Joanna Stockill, Head of Blue Belt Programme
Tel:
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12. Candidate Information Pack
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Indicative Timeline
Please note these dates are only indicative at this stage and could be subject to change.
If you are unable to meet these timeframes, please let us know by contacting;
Joanna Stockill
Tel:
Week commencing
17 June 2019
Anticipated start date
Week commencing
13 May 2019
Outcome
Week commencing
13 May 2019
Interviews
3 May 2019
Sift period*
28 April 2019
Closing date
January 2019
February 2019
Interviews will take place at the Marine Management Organisation, Lancaster House, Newcastle.
* The sift will include an online situational judgement test as an initial sift, links to the test will be sent via .
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13. Candidate Information Pack
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Appointment Term:
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Pension:
Fixed Term Appointment/secondment to March 2020 with a possibility of extension.
Flexibility to be based from a number of MMO offices. Regular (weekly) travel will be required often to London, Newcastle and Peterborough.
Full time, Part time, flexible working arrangements.
With competitive maternity, paternity and parental leave we also recognise the importance of a good work-life balance and offer flexible working and a family friendly approach to work.
Salary: £ 45,200 – 55,277
Non civil servants will start on the minimum
New entrants to the Civil Service will start on the salary band minimum.
Existing Civil Servants applying on level transfer will transfer in on their current salary providing it is within the salary range. If you are on a lower salary then you will transfer in on the salary range minimum. Existing Civil Servants applying on promotion will transfer in on the salary range minimum. There is no pay progression within the bands
Your pension is a valuable part of your total reward package where:
The employer makes a significant contribution to the cost of your pension.
Your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken. This means, if you pay tax, your take-home pay will not be reduced by the full amount of your contribution; and
Your pension will continue to provide valuable benefits for you and your family if you are too ill to continue to work or die before you retire. For more information, visit
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Leave Allowance:
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Other Benefits:
30 days (pro-rated for part time staff), 10 and a half day’s public and privilege holidays and flexible working.
We are committed to investing in our staff and offer a range of work based training and qualifications, coaching and mentoring opportunities and a guaranteed five days of learning a year.
Childcare - the Civil Service recognises that many staff balance working lives with the demands of a family life and offers support with childcare and holiday play schemes costs by providing childcare vouchers for staff who meet the eligibility criteria.
Special leave.
Sick pay.
Salary advances.
Interest free season ticket and bicycle loans.
Defra discount scheme.
Employee Assistance Programme.
Eye care.
Trade Unions.
Mediation service.
Volunteering.
Staff networking pages.
Some sites also offer onsite facilities including fitness centres and staff canteens.
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Eligibility:
Nationality:
Reserved for UK Nationals:
This post is advertised to suitably qualified people in the external market, and to existing Civil Servants and those in accredited Non Departmental Public Bodies.
Applicants from other government departments would be expected to come over on loan/secondment therefore they must have approval from their current line manager for this.
All jobs listed in our current vacancies are open to:
EC nationals
members of the Commonwealth, European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non-EEA family members
Candidates from the Commonwealth must be free from any restrictions to reside and take up employment in the UK.
As part of our selection process, successful candidates will be asked to provide, in confidence, evidence of entitlement to work in the UK and to provide references for your character and health. We will usually ask for documentary evidence of your nationality and other personal details to enable us to start taking up references, health and security clearance checks. We will tell you what you need to bring with you if you are invited to attend an assessment centre.
Certain posts, notably those concerned with security and intelligence, might be reserved for British citizens, but this will not normally prevent access to a wide range of developmental opportunities within the Civil Service.
This is not a reserved post.
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Security Clearance:
Conflicts of interest:
Pre-employment checks will be undertaken in accordance with the HM Government Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). The BPSS comprises verification of four main elements:
Identity
employment history for the last three years
nationality and immigration status, including the right to work
criminal records check for unspent convictions also known as a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks.
In some circumstances enhanced checks may also be required however candidates will be advised if this is the case.
Additionally, successful candidates are required to give a reasonable account of any significant periods (six months or more in the past three years) of time spent abroad.
The DBS checks are designed to provide clarity on any unspent convictions and therefore the provisions of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974) apply.
Candidates must note the requirement to declare any interests they may have that might cause questions to be raised about their approach to the business of the Department. They are required to declare any relevant business interests, shareholdings, positions of authority, retainers, consultancy arrangements or other connections with commercial, public or voluntary bodies, both for themselves and for their spouses/partners. The successful candidate will be required to give up any conflicting interests and his/her other business and financial interests may be published.
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Equality and Diversity:
Civil Service Code:
The Marine Management Organisation is committed to being an equal opportunities employer. We value and welcome diversity. We aim to develop all our staff to enable them to make a full contribution to meeting the Department's objectives, and to fulfil their own potential on merit. We will not tolerate harassment or other unfair discrimination on grounds of sex, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, age, religion or sexual orientation. We will promote and support the use of a range of flexible working patterns to enable staff to balance home and work responsibilities; and we will treat people fairly irrespective of their working arrangements.
Under the terms of the Equality Act 2010, we are legally required to consider making reasonable adjustments to ensure that disabled people are not disadvantaged in the recruitment and selection process. We are therefore committed to meeting, wherever possible, any needs you specify in your application. We will also consider any reasonable adjustments under the terms of the Act to enable any applicant with a
disability (as defined under the Act) to meet the requirements of the post.
We offer a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for people with disabilities (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) who meet the minimum criteria for appointment.
All civil servants are subject to the provisions of the Civil Service Code that details the
Civil Service values, standards of behaviour and rights and responsibilities.
For further information, visit GOV.UK.
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