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Ocean Environment Technical Lead

UK Hydrographic Office

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United Kingdom

Posted 6+ months ago

Location

Taunton, Somerset, South West

About the job

Job summary

UK Hydrographic Office customers require us to provide professional advice and a range of Situational Awareness products providing information about the marine environment to assist in their planning. To support this, the Ocean Environment Team within the Scientific Analysis Group, acquires data from a variety of sources and analyses those data for subsequent use. Our Ocean Environment Technical Leads have the expertise necessary to advise on the use of this environmental data and provide an assessment of the environmental conditions likely to be encountered. This will be achieved through collaborations with external organisations and scientific communities.

We are in a position to be able to recruit 2 Ocean Environment Technical Leads to join and augment our Ocean Environment Team.

If successful, you will be the senior subject matter expert(s) for the Marine Environment within the UKHO and act as the technical advocate in this domain on behalf of the UKHO to external audiences in the military, academia, wider government and private industry. You will be responsible for the technical development of our Ocean Science disciplines, ensuring that the UKHO and Royal Navy can fully exploit a complex and rapidly advancing field.

Due to the nature of the work of the team, and the level of customer engagement and support provided to colleagues, on average 2 to 3 days a week working in the Taunton office would be the norm, although this can fluctuate depending on work in hand.

Job description

Activities and responsibilities fall into the following key areas:

Build scientific capability and expertise across marine environmental disciplines within the UKHO:

Drive forward the technical development of specialist staff skills within the Ocean Environment Team - this includes technical specialists across Oceanography, Marine Biology, Geology, Acoustics and Data Analytics/Management.

Conduct research into:

New marine environmental data acquisition (e.g. technology), processing (e.g. software) and analytical techniques (e.g. modelling)
Marine environmental data sources and standards, assessing the relevance to UKHO strategy
Complex technical issues relating to marine environmental data

Supervise Marine Environment related projects and programmes:

Responsible for overseeing marine environmental data processing, validating and data-basing. Seeking continuous improvement of UKHO's Marine Environmental data deliverables and processing procedures by primary research advising on the best formats, systems and practices.
Supporting the technical development of the Marine Environment databases and data management processes.
Providing technical leadership and representing UKHO interests on issues relating to emergent oceanographic data gathering technologies, e.g. the management and use of data collected using AUVs.
Verification of Marine Environment outputs, including assessing and editing geospatial data and associated text/reports.

Engage externally with Marine Environment experts, data suppliers and potential partners/collaborators, and UKHO Customers, including the Royal Navy:

Provide technical leadership to Royal Navy Hydrographic and Meteorological staff regarding appraisal and use of marine environmental data.
Represent the Marine Environmental technical interests of the UKHO throughout the MOD (including Allied), Government and academic communities.

Person specification

Please note that we will only score against the sift and interview criteria and not the essential and desirable information below.

We are looking for candidates with a postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience in a marine environmental discipline, or related discipline, who will be committed to utilising their expertise, currency and credibility to ensure we deliver high quality products and services to our defence users and allied partners. To be successful in this technical leadership role, the post holder will have demonstrable experience in communicating with and influencing a wide variety of audiences, both nationally and internationally, whilst also able to coach, mentor and develop colleagues internally, to enable them to broaden their knowledge and skills.

Behaviours

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

Leadership
Communicating and Influencing
Developing Self and Others
Working Together

Technical skills

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

Working with large complex datasets
Computer programming skills

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,889, UK Hydrographic Office contributes £11,850 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

At the UK Hydrographic Office, it's very important to us that our people feel valued.

We offer a huge range of benefits such as training and development, well-being support, flexible/ homeworking, a fantastic state of the art building, high spec equipment, and so much more.

See our attached Candidate Information Pack for more details.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

How to Apply:

You will be asked to upload details of your CV into Civil Service Jobs. This is for information purposes and will not be scored. You will be scored against the criteria below. Please apply by clicking "Apply Now" at the bottom of this page

Timeline:

Advert Closes for applications: 19 July 2023
Shortlisting: week commencing: 24 July 2023
Interviews: week commencing: 7 August 2023

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.

Sift/Shortlist Criteria:

All applications are processed anonymously. You will be short-listed against the following criteria:

Experience:

Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience in a marine environmental discipline, or related discipline.
Experience of applying marine environmental science in an operational/business environment.
Proven track record of working with large complex datasets
Computer programming skills and experience

You will be asked to provide a Supporting Statement of up to 1000 words illustrating how you meet the above criteria.

PLEASE NOTE: In the event of a high volume of applications, the Panel may undertake a pre-sift on the criteria of:-

Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience in a marine environmental discipline, or related discipline.

Interview Criteria:

You will be interviewed against the following criteria:

Civil Service Behaviours: (Level 3)

Leadership
Communicating and Influencing
Developing Self and Others
Working Together

Technical

Working with large complex datasets
Computer programming skills

You may be required to give a 10 minute presentation giving an example of when you have used your scientific knowledge/expertise to deliver a high qualify product/service to a customer.

See here for further information: Success Profiles - Civil Service Behaviours (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Process:

Single Stage Interview in person at our Taunton Office. You will be contacted to book a suitable slot if you are shortlisted (see our Candidate Pack for further information)
Interview will be with a panel of no more than 3 people and will last approximately 45 mins which may include a 10 minute presentation as outlined above

Onboarding Checks:

In the event you are offered a role with us, you will be required to go through Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks which will include Employment and Right to Work Checks. Please see our attached Candidate Pack for further details and Terms.

This is a Ministry of Defence reserved post and open to sole UK nationals only. Successful applicants will require Developed Vetting (DV) and therefore need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 24 consecutive months within the last 10 years.

Please note, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is developed vetting (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

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.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Apply and further information

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Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : recruitment.queries@ukho.gov.uk
Email : recruitment.queries@ukho.gov.uk

Recruitment team

Email : recruitment.queries@ukho.gov.uk

Further information

The Department’s recruitment processes are underpinned by the requirement of selection for appointment based on merit, open and fair competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles, details of which can be found at http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact recruitment.queries@ukho.gov.uk If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can further contact the Civil Service Commission at: civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk or view more details at http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk

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