Marine Licensing Case Officer (EO)

6 Months
5
North East
Newcastle
Lancaster House
EO
Executive Officer (N)
Permanent
Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share
Operational Delivery
£23,387
£26,690

What we do

We licence, regulate and plan marine activities in the seas around England and Wales so that they're carried out in a sustainable way.

This helps the government achieve its vision for clean, healthy, productive and biologically diverse oceans and seas.

Who we are

We were created by the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 and are now a team of almost 300 people. We combine our Newcastle upon Tyne and London operations with a local presence around the English coastline in North Shields, Scarborough, Grimsby, Lowestoft, Harwich, Hastings, Shoreham, Poole, Portsmouth, Brixham, Plymouth, Penzance, Whitehaven and Preston.

Our responsibilities

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
  • enforcing wildlife legislation and issuing wildlife licences

Job purpose

As a Case Officer working within the Marine Licensing Team you will be responsible for determining a diverse range of licence applications for activities within our marine area.

The team’s work is diverse and you may work on port developments, navigational dredging, coastal defences, nuclear energy or marine renewable energy projects, extraction of aggregates from the seabed, salvage of wrecks and many other activities taking place in the marine area.

You will be responsible for assessing the potential social, environmental and economic impacts of these activities and for drafting reports based on these assessments. You will also be responsible for drafting licences giving authorisation to activities and for drafting licence conditions to control the activities.

You will be responsible for the general administration of your cases. This will include file management, running public consultations on licence applications, handling correspondence and information requests. This will also include preparing briefings for management and government departments.

You will be expected to provide advice to applicants and other parties. This will include attending meetings and teleconferences and may include attending public inquiries and hearings into nationally significant infrastructure projects.

You will have a passion for the marine sector and be able to develop the skills needed to fulfil the MMO’s role as an enabling regulator. You will understand the importance of the regulatory process and the position of the MMO as a regulator, and effectively deliver fair, open and transparent decision making.


 

Main duties and accountabilities involved in achieving your stated job purpose

Ensure that you make robust decisions in line with key performance indicators and quality assurance processes

  • Produce environmental impact assessment screening and scoping opinions.
  • Assess applications for potential social, environmental and economic impacts arising from the proposed activities.
  • Produce reports and briefings.
  • Draft licences and licence conditions.
  • Follow the principles set out in the Coastal Concordat and work with primary advisers/consultees to draw together relevant legal and/or scientific advice.
  • In consultation with statutory nature conservation bodies, assess projects under the Habitats Regulations and for impacts on other protected areas.
  • Ensure all casework is dealt with promptly and efficiently using casework tracking systems.
  • Attend weekly team meetings to provide updates/reviews on cases in progress.
  • Liaise with enforcement officers to ensure that compliance and enforcement activities are carried out in a robust manner.

Ensure that you comply with financial management controls in line with corporate and operational standards

  • Ensure time is recorded correctly using the Bill Quick Management system.
  • Ensure fee estimates are issued to customers and time records are monitored to manage actual time spent against estimates issued.

Ensure that you are engaging effectively and appropriately and that marine licensing is well represented with stakeholders

  • Attend and chair meetings with applicants and other parties.
  • Advise applicants and other parties about relevant regulatory frameworks and project-specific issues.
  • Work with applicants and other parties to resolve complex issues and to enable sustainable development.
  • Brief senior managers and assist with Freedom of Information and Environmental Information Regulations requests.

Contribute / lead on work needed for the licensing team to deliver effectively and to continuously improve

  • Undertake ad-hoc projects to improve marine licensing delivery.

Key Stakeholders

  • MMO teams including coastal offices, Marine Conservation and Enforcement, Marine Planning, Evidence, Legal and Communications

 

Stakeholder management, communication and working relationships

Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Environment Agency, Natural England, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Trinity House Lighthouse Service, Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities, The Crown Estate, English Heritage, harbour authorities, The Planning Inspectorate, Department of Energy and Climate Change, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Department for Transport, devolved administrations, local authorities.

Candidate profile:

Essential criteria for this role:

  • Ability to meet the core competencies in the competency profile at this level.
  • Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people, in writing, over the phone and in groups.
  • Ability to interpret legislation/regulations and apply them to a range of practical situations/solutions.
  • Capacity to work through complex processes and resolve issues to a satisfactory conclusion.
  • Ability to plan, prioritise and control workload to delivering results to agreed timescales.
  • Ability to engage with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

 

Desirable criteria for this role: 

  • A degree in an environmental, science, engineering, planning or marine-related discipline.
  • Experience of assessing the potential impacts of marine development.
  • Knowledge of marine industries – ports and harbours, marine renewable energy, aggregate extraction etc.

The closing date for this vacancy is 15th July, 23:55 BST. Please note that we will not accept any late applications.

For more information please contact Matthew Kinmond on 02080 265 376 or matthew.kinmond@marinemanagement.org.uk | 

15/07/2016, 23:55 hours

Expected interview dates are in the period from 1/8/16 to 12/8/16
Non Reserved
Basic Check (BPSS)
Making Effective Decisions
Effectiveness in this area is about being objective; using sound judgement, evidence and knowledge to provide accurate, expert and professional advice. For all staff, it means showing clarity of thought, setting priorities, analysing and using evidence to evaluate options before arriving at well-reasoned justifiable decisions. At senior levels, leaders will be creating evidence based strategies, evaluating options, impacts, risks and solutions. They will aim to maximise return while minimising risk and balancing social, political, financial, economic and environmental considerations to provide sustainable outcomes.
Seeing the Big Picture
Seeing the big picture is about having an in-depth understanding and knowledge of how your role fits with and supports organisational objectives and the wider public needs. For all staff, it is about focusing your contribution on the activities which will meet the MMO goals and deliver the greatest value. At senior levels, it is about scanning the political context and taking account of wider impacts to develop long term implementation strategies that maximise opportunities to add value to the citizen and support economic, sustainable growth.
Delivering Value for Money
Effectiveness in this area means focusing on delivering timely performance with energy and taking responsibility and accountability for quality outcomes. For all staff, it’s about working to agreed goals and activities and dealing with challenges in a responsive and constructive way. At senior levels, it is about building a performance culture to deliver outcomes with a firm focus on prioritisation and addressing performance issues resolutely, fairly and promptly. It is also about leaders providing the focus and energy to drive activities forward through others and encourage staff to perform effectively during challenging and changing times.
Delivering at Pace
Delivering value for money involves the efficient, effective and economic use of taxpayers’ money in the delivery of public services. For all staff, it means seeking out and implementing solutions which achieve the best mix of quality and effectiveness for the least outlay. People who do this well base their decisions on evidenced information and follow agreed processes and policies, challenging these appropriately where they appear to prevent good value for money. At senior levels, effective people embed a culture of value for money within their area/function. They work collaboratively across boundaries to ensure that the MMO and Civil Service maximises its strategic outcomes within the resources available.
Leading and Communicating
At all levels, effectiveness in this area is about leading from the front and communicating with clarity, conviction and enthusiasm. It’s about supporting principles of fairness of opportunity for all and a dedication to a diverse range of citizens. At senior levels, it is about establishing a strong direction and a persuasive future vision; managing and engaging with people with honesty and integrity, and upholding the reputation of the Organisation and the Civil Service.
Collaborating and Partnering
People skilled in this area create and maintain positive, professional and trusting working relationships with a wide range of people within and outside the MMO and Civil Service to help get business done. At all levels, it requires working collaboratively, sharing information and building supportive, responsive relationships with colleagues and stakeholders, whilst having the confidence to challenge assumptions. At senior levels, it’s about delivering business objectives through creating an inclusive environment, encouraging collaboration and building effective partnerships including relationships with Ministers.
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