SEO Principal Marine Conservation Manager - ( Ref : 5882 )

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.
We also have colleagues based in Defra offices, including Bristol, Cambridge and York where we share office space.
More information about our work is on the GOV.UK website and you can read the MMO’s Story here., We are recruiting for a Principal Marine Conservation Manager in the Marine Conservation Team, a passionate and supportive team of 30 within the MMO’s Operations Directorate.
The Operations Directorate also includes our Fisheries Management Team and Future Fisheries Team, as well as our Regulatory Assurance and coastal teams.
The Marine Conservation Team is a positive, engaging and rewarding environment with a fantastic team spirit. We deliver high impact projects critical to the government’s ambition for marine nature recovery.
The Marine Conservation Team works closely with other teams across the MMO, including our Marine Licensing and Marine Planning teams, Fisheries Management and Future Fisheries teams, and our key support functions including colleagues in MMO’s Data and Analysis Directorate as well as Communications and Legal teams.
We also work closely with a wide range of partners and stakeholders including other government bodies, commercial businesses, industry representatives, scientific institutions, environmental organisations and individual sea users.
The roles can be based in any MMO office across England, subject to capacity.
This is a really exciting time to join the MMO as the UK is now independent coastal state, embedding new repatriated functions and services with an increased focus on the protection and enhancing of the marine environment. This Principal Marine Conservation Manager role will be central to delivering critical aspects of the Government’s ambitions for marine nature recovery.
In particular, this role will focus on the management of marine non-licensable activities (mNLA) in marine protected areas (MPAs) and managing impacts on protected marine species by issuing wildlife licences .
This role is offered on a permanent basis. You will manage up to three HEO colleagues. Working with senior MMO managers, Defra policy teams, and relevant partners and stakeholders to shape the management of mNLA in MPAs and for wider conservation purposes. You will be responsible for reporting to senior managers through various Governance Boards, on the progress of the project.
The Marine Conservation Team has a broad and fluid workload and staff resource is applied flexibly to best meet the team’s priorities; you may therefore be required to work on other MCT functions.

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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Alongside your salary of £38,730, Marine Management Organisation contributes £10,495 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 average employer contribution of 27%