Welcome

Thank you for your interest in working with the Marine Management Organisation, we are really pleased to be sharing this opportunity to work with us as we embark on the next stages of our 10 year development plan for the marine environment in England and Wales.

This is a really exciting time to join the Marine Management Organisation. We have published the MMO Story, setting out our ambitions for our seas both in England and globally. We are intent on becoming an evidence and data-driven organisation and the Director of Digital and Analysis will be a critical part of that, focusing on the evidence, data and information we gather and utilising it to inform our decisions and shape our services. 

The Director of Digital and Analysis is part of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and is a critical part of the MMO achieving its objectives and shaping the organisation as a whole.  The role also works with Defra and other government departments and across a political landscape. 

If you have a passion for data and delivery and are keen to share the MMO’s journey, then we would love to hear from you.
 

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About Our Organisation

MMO was created in 2010 by the Marine and Coastal Access Act, and has many achievements to be proud of. We will build on these past ten years as we enter a new decade with a fresh,  bold vision for the future prosperity of our seas, coasts and communities. 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. MMO manages 230,000 square kilometres of hugely diverse seas, almost double that of England’s land mass.  Our seas are among the busiest in the world.  We don’t always appreciate the extensive benefits we draw from them, whether for leisure, transport, commerce, fisheries, construction, energy and communications.  And critically, our seas provide significant environmental benefits.

The Marine Management Organisation delivers professional, expert, valued services and support for our marine environment and for those who use it. We are committed to being a top place to work – focussed on colleague engagement and respect; shared values; personal wellbeing; individual and collective diversity; and professional personal development.

Tom McCormack, CEO

Headquartered in Newcastle Upon Tyne, we pride ourselves on creating a culture as diverse and harmonious as the environments we are responsible for.

We have a clear purpose and a broad range of responsibilities, both administrative and environmental, which are set to evolve further over the next 10 years. MMO will be at the centre of a successful transition from the EU, at the heart of enabling the further development and delivery of renewable energy, and we will play a key role in supporting delivery of the government’s exciting environmental ambitions.

About Us - At Sea

We’re fully 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. Producing marine plans to include all marine activities, including those we don’t directly regulate.

About Our MMO Culture 

Our people are professional and hugely committed, and are MMO’s greatest asset.  Our People Plan helps the MMO become an even better place to work and we strive to live by our values.  Our culture is supportive and flexible and we are brigaded by our shared vision and purpose, improving the ways we work and support each other.

MMO - The next 10 years

Our Vision

A prosperous future for our seas, coasts and communities.

Our Guiding Principles


Ambitious - We aspire to be the best we can, working with others to achieve shared objectives
Professional  - We are a customer focussed regulator, delivering outcomes using best available science; evidence and technologies
Balanced -  We weigh the evidence, making independent decisions that protect our marine environment and support economic and social prosperity

Our Employees

We employ people passionate about our seas who deliver a range of services and objectives to help realise our ambitions. Operating in Newcastle, London and across 14 coastal offices, we employ around 400 people with a whole host of skills and experiences. 

Career Development

The MMO has a generous employee offer which includes elective learning and development including access to Civil Service Learning which has 100s of free courses, access to apprenticeships and other development opportunities. Our colleagues can access courses specific to their role and use them to assist with their development for future career opportunities. As an NDPB the MMO also is a gateway to other civil service employment opportunities not advertised in the public domain. In addition, there are 3 days allocated to colleagues to volunteer and learn and develop new skills and understanding of different environments. There are also opportunities to access bitesize training and learning about health, safety, wellbeing and data protection. 
 

MMO Values


Inclusive: we promote an inclusive environment that allows everyone to be their best.  We promote and support wellbeing, diversity and equality of opportunity for all.
Innovative: we look for better ways, being innovative in our thinking in order to adapt how we use our resources to do the best we can for our customers.
Accountable: we take ownership of issues and make confident decisions which are informed by robust evidence.  We are honest, transparent and fair.
Engaging: we are collaborative, working as one organisation with each other and our stakeholders to get the job done.

Equality and Diversity

The Marine Management Organisation is committed to being an equal opportunities employer. We value and welcome diversity. We aim to develop all our staff to enable them to make a full contribution to meeting the Department's objectives, and to fulfil their own potential on merit. We will not tolerate harassment or other unfair discrimination on grounds of sex, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, disability, age, religion or sexual orientation. We will promote and support the use of a range of flexible working patterns to enable staff to balance home and work responsibilities; and we will treat people fairly irrespective of their working arrangements.

Under the terms of the Equality Act 2010, we are legally required to consider making reasonable adjustments to ensure that disabled people are not disadvantaged in the recruitment and selection process. We are therefore committed to meeting, wherever possible, any needs you specify in your application. We will also consider any reasonable adjustments under the terms of the Act to enable any applicant with a disability (as defined under the Act) to meet the requirements of the post.

Location

The post will be primarily based in either Lancaster House, Newcastle or Nobel House, London, with the expectation of regular time spent with MMO teams in both locations and other business travel as necessary.