Senior Marine Officer Harwich – Ref : 5634

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.

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

• 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%

Job contact :

• Name : Justin Rowley
• Email : Justin.Rowley@marinemanagement.org.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : defra-recruitment-enquiries@gov.sscl.com