Head of Marine Planning and Strategic Renewables(Ref: 6002)

Marine Management Organisation

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Reference number

374388

Salary

£61,619

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

Grade 6

Grade 6 (N)

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Planning

Working pattern

Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Location

East Midlands (England), East of England, North East England, North West England, South East England, South West England, West Midlands (England), Yorkshire and the Humber

About the job

Job summary

THIS ROLE IS ELIGIBLE TO BE BASED IN THE NEWCASTLE, YORK, BRISTOL AND PRESTON OFFICE LOCATIONS.

Job description

LOCATION: THIS ROLE IS ELIGIBLE TO BE BASED IN THE NEWCASTLE, YORK, BRISTOL AND PRESTON OFFICE LOCATIONS.

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.

Job description

This is an exciting time to join the MMO as we play our part, in line with our vision for ‘A prosperous future for our seas, coasts and communities’, in delivering the new government’s mission with a focus on growth, net zero, and protecting and enhancing of the marine environment. That includes the MMO’s Strategic Goal to ‘to manage a responsive and widely owned English marine planning framework.’

The Marine Planning Team (MPT) and Strategic Renewables Unit (SRU) sit within the MMO’s Marine Development (Domestic and International) Directorate, alongside Marine Licensing Team and the Global Team.

The MMO service that the MPT and SRU contribute to most directly is “Enabling sustainable marine development”.

The MPT’s core service is to prepare, implement, monitor, evaluate and report on England’s marine plans based on sound evidence and data, and effective engagement including working across government to influence the development of the approach taken to marine planning.
The SRU’s core service is to act as the hub on offshore wind and marine renewables for the MMO, both internally and externally, maximising the expertise and contributions of relevant MMO teams.

The role will provide leadership and management of the MPT and SRU, be part of the Directorate Senior Leadership team, and contribute to relevant wider MMO activities including as a member of the cross-MMO Departmental Leadership Team (DLT).

The Marine Planning Team mission is ‘To ensure marine planning, which makes sure the right activities happen in the right place, at the right time, and in the right way, delivers the MMO’s Vision, Mission, & Strategy’. To achieve our mission, we will...

Make the most of published plans to fully realise their value and utility including through more informed and efficient decision-making, working with others in MMO to lead by example.
Keep marine plans relevant, revising and updating them in response to changing context, changes in terrestrial planning, and in line with the continued evolution of marine planning.
Apply the best available evidence to understand current and future needs, to monitor and evaluate the impact of marine planning, and to implement and revise marine plans.
Engage with stakeholders and partners to not only meet statutory requirements but ensure effective participation and collaboration in a transparent way throughout the marine planning process.
Broadcast our experience, outputs and activities to widen understanding and ownership of marine planning and improve recognition of the MMO’s contributions.
Be a hub of expertise, growing and maintaining our capability and helping to build a broader community of marine planning practice.

The Strategic Renewables Unit vision is to: ‘Ensure the MMO’s vision of a prosperous future for our seas, coasts and communities is supported through deployment of sustainable offshore wind and other marine renewables.’

The Vision will be achieved through the following objectives

Enhance MMO’s internal and external ways of working on Offshore Renewables to support offshore renewables deployment in line with the MMO Strategy
Support external short and long term regulatory/system improvements to enable offshore renewables deployment in line with the MMO Strategy
Oversee MMO’s strategic engagement in offshore renewables and maintain productive relationships with stakeholders.

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

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

Person specification

Please refer to Job Description

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level in a relevant subject; and/or

• Significant relevant experience (at least 5 years).

Desirable

• More than 5 years relevant experience

• Strong strategic understanding of environmental and marine issues, gained through direct experience in marine management, planning or renewables

• Additional relevant qualifications or membership of a relevant professional

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £61,619, Marine Management Organisation contributes £17,851 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

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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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