Maritime Advisor

4 months ago

London, United Kingdom UK Hydrographic Office Full time

Job summary

The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) is a world leading centre for hydrography, specialising in marine geospatial data to support safe, secure and thriving oceans.

�As a trading fund of the Ministry of Defence, we support defence, safe maritime navigation and marine development around the UK and worldwide.

We are looking for maritime professionals to join our you have the maritime qualifications and experience required for the role and want to apply your skills to support the maritime community, then this role is for you.

The purpose of the Maritime Advisor role is to assess new data to maintain our Sailing Directions Volumes, providing essential information to support port entry and coastal navigation for all classes of ships at sea.

Quality is paramount and the role is to ensure the volumes of Sailing Directions (SDs) are safe, accurate, clear to users, whilst remaining comprehensive, and up-to-date including Section IV Notice to Mariners supporting the maritime customer.

Post holders also provide navigational and maritime input for existing and emerging UKHO products and services, often acting as the �voice of the customer� due to their Maritime expertise.

You would be joining this team as we move towards producing digital SD volumes.

If you are successful, you will undertake a programme of development and will be measured against a defined skills and competency framework and, once the required level is reached, normally within 12 � 18 months, post holders will become B2 Maritime Advisors.

We are currently working towards a start date in January 2025.

Selection Process:

Candidates who pass the sift will be invited to undertake a technical test, which will be undertaken virtually.� If the pass mark is achieved, you will then be invited to an interview hosted on MS Teams.� Please note these stages will happen in a relatively short timeframe.�

The Maritime Advisor Teams work in a hybrid way, with ways of working agreed in discussion with the Line Manager.� There will be a requirement to attend the Taunton site daily for the first 2 weeks after joining for initial training.� There may then be further onsite training requirements � these will be discussed and agreed with appropriate notice.

The Teams ordinarily meet onsite in Taunton once a month all together, dates are agreed in advance.�

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Job description

On starting, Maritime Advisors will undertake the following activities:

� Assess new information for its impact on Sailing Directions (SDs) and maintain in steady state maintenance

� Recommend Notice to Mariner action for SDs

� Provide mariner's input to product development

� Pro-actively seek information for SD content from external sources

� Prepare, amend and technically edit Sailing Directions volumes for publication.

Once assessed as competent in these tasks, post holders will progress to undertake the following tasks:

� Verify assessment decisions relating to new information and recommendations of Notice to Mariners action; providing feedback and guidance to support colleagues.

� Collaborate with others toshare knowledge providing the mariners� perspective on New Charts, New Editions and new chart schemes at specification stage.

Additional tasks undertaken by Maritime Advisors may include:

� Provide navigational expertise in response to queries from both internal and external customers.

� Provide mariners perspective/advise to other areas of the business when required.

� Continually develop own skills and provide clear coaching and mentoring for the development of the team.

� Use own expertise to play an active role in development and implementation of new processes and working practices and review and update process documentation.

Person specification

In this role you will have the opportunity to share your external user experience to contribute to and support the development of our products and services to meet current and future customer needs.� We are looking for team players, with a proactive approach to identifying and taking forward improvements to ways of working.� An eye for detail and the ability to use clear written English to produce user focused sailing directions are key requirements for the role.

Qualifications

Officer of the Watch CoC (Unlimited) or Navy Equivalent (Minimum)

Behaviours

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

Delivering at PaceCommunicating and InfluencingMaking Effective Decisions

Technical skills

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

Strong understanding of passage planning techniques including the use of nautical publications and chartsRelevant experience in practical navigation, as a senior/sole watchkeeper.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of �30,226, UK Hydrographic Office contributes �8,161 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.

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