Head of Service Delivery - Marine Licensing and Harbour Orders - ( Ref : 6488 )

Marine Management Organisation

On-Site

Expires: Expiring in less than 3 weeks

Environmental

Full time

£67,172 per year

Job summary

This position can be based at Newcastle or York

Job description

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 500 people and combine our Newcastle upon Tyne and London 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.

More information about our work is on the GOV.UK website and you can read the MMO’s Story here.

Job description

This is a really exciting time to join the MMO as we refresh our Strategy to recognise our key role in supporting the Government’s priorities for economic growth and clean energy whilst protecting the marine environment and its users.

This is a key role in the Marine Development Directorate, leading and managing the Marine Licensing service, Business Support and the Harbour Revision Orders (HRO) team, to deliver an excellent service to all.

Providing strong and supportive leadership, this post holder will be responsible for developing the capacity and capability within the team, role modelling the MMO values and ensuring effective and efficient service delivery in line with performance measures and targets to achieve excellent customer service

This FTA will provide cover for the Service Owner of Marine Licensing and Harbour Orders, to enable the development of a service strategy and for more focus to be given to the Marine Licensing and Planning Programme (MPLP). The Two posts will work closely with each other, with the Head of Service Delivery inputting to the development of the Marine Licensing service strategy and the MPLP, championing and socialising this work within the team and manage team resources to provide SME input as required.

Please refer to the candidate pack for full details of the role.

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Qualifications

Essential: Master's degree in relevant environmental science and/or has significant relevant operational leadership and delivery experience

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Managing a Quality Service
Making Effective Decisions
Delivering at Pace
Developing Self and Others
Communicating and Influencing

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £67,172, Marine Management Organisation contributes £19,459 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

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 employer contribution of 28.97%

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Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.Please refer to Job Description

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Security

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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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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.

Diversity and Inclusion

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Salary range

£67,172 per year