Assistant Chief Coastguard Scotland

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 244448**Salary**:

- £61,940- On-call allowance £3,000 per annum**Job grade**:

- Grade 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MCA - Directorate of Her Majesty's Coastguard**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery
- Senior leadership
- Strategy**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

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Location
- Aberdeen, Belfast, GlasgowAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Are you an experienced leader with an operational service delivery background, able to evaluate risk, match resource to demands and contingency plan?

Could you shape a new role to assist in driving HM Coastguard to become a world class international maritime response organisation?

Would you relish an exciting change of career where your skills will make a real difference?

We would love to hear from people from all operational service delivery backgrounds who have the necessary transferable skills to be the Assistant Chief Coastguard Scotland & Northern Ireland.

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) implements the government's maritime safety policy in the United Kingdom and works to prevent the loss of life and occurrence of pollution on the coast and at sea.
- Safer lives, Safer ships, Cleaner seas._

Our vision is to be the best maritime safety organisation in the world.

Find out more about what it's like working at the Department for Transport.

**Job description**:
HM Coastguard (HMCG) is the operational arm of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) with responsibility for 6 Coastguard functions:

- Search and Rescue
- Pollution Response
- Vessel Traffic Management
- Maritime Safety
- Maritime Security, and
- Emergency and Disaster Management.

We are looking for a dynamic individual to join us in this new and exciting senior leadership role within HMCG, as the Assistant Chief Coastguard Scotland & Northern Ireland.

Reporting directly to the Chief Coastguard the successful applicant will take strategic leadership for two Coastguard Divisions made up of regular officers and volunteer Coastguard Rescue Officers. The Assistant Chief Coastguard Scotland & Northern Ireland will evaluate risk, provide effective governance and supervision and ensure effective capacity planning to manage and match resource to demand, ensuring their division works to optimal performance levels.

The role holder will have national strategic oversight for Business Continuity, Civil Resilience and Exercises, and will become a member of the Chief Officers Group (COG) supporting and collaborating with the Chief Coastguard and COG members to identify and mitigate current and future risks.

Stakeholder collaboration is key within this role and the Assistant Chief Coastguard Scotland & Northern Ireland will liaise and build robust working relationships with other emergency services, local government, voluntary organisations the press and media and local resilience fora as well as internally across the MCA.

This is a rare opportunity to take up a significant senior position in a challenging and exciting new role in which you will enjoy great satisfaction in bringing your ideas to the forefront and seeing them through to fruition. The role provides the opportunity and empowerment to use your drive and passion to create innovative solutions to mitigate risk and deliver MCA business objectives in its drive to be a world class maritime emergency service.

This role can be based in the Aberdeen, Glasgow or Belfast office. MCA supports flexible working and operates a hybrid working model between home and office for this role, giving you greater flexibility over where and when you work. Details of the arrangement will be discussed further with your line manager.

The role holder will be required to attend formal training events and be required to travel to all parts of the United Kingdom and on occasion internationally which will involve spending time away from home and from the normal workplace.

A full driving licence valid for driving in the UK is required.

The role holder will participate in on call roster for Duty Director which will involve working outside of standard working hours.

**Person specification**:
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Providing strong visible strategic leadership, supervision, and guidance to their direct reports to ensure that maritime, aviation, coastal and counter pollution operational delivery is effective within their area of responsibility.
- Providing strategic oversight of the Counter Pollution Business Management Group to ensure that the group effectively identifies and proposes mitigations to emerging operational risks, develops and monitors the control measures for recognised risks and raises significant risks to COG for inclusion in the directive Risk Register.
- Providing strategic oversight to ensure that HMCG operations remain und