Job Description

My client at Marine Management Organisation, is looking for a Marine Licensing Case Officer (EO Grade) to join their team as soon as possible. If you feel you have the right experience and skills to join the team then look no further!

Location: Hybrid Working - 2 Days Per Week from Home and 3 Days Per Week from Head Office in Newcastle (Lancaster House - NE47YH)
Rate of Pay: £14.29ph
Hours: Full time Monday-Friday - 9am to 5pm
Start Date: ASAP
Contract: 3 months initially with possibility of extension.

Main Duties and Accountabilities:

• Ensure that you make robust decisions in line with key performance indicators and quality assurance processes
• Marine Licensing Application decisions
• Harbour Order Application determinations (if applicable)
• Ensure all casework is dealt with promptly and efficiently using casework tracking systems
• Produce environmental impact assessment screening and scoping opinions
• Undertake technical and environmental assessments: Habitats Regulations, Marine Conservation Zone, Marine Plan Policy
• Work with primary advisers/consultees to draw together relevant legal and/or scientific advice
• Liaise with enforcement officers to ensure that compliance and enforcement activities are carried out in a robust manner
• Ensure that you are engaging effectively and appropriately, and that marine licensing is well represented with stakeholders
• Advise applicants and other parties about relevant regulatory frameworks and project-specific issues
• Work with applicants and other parties to resolve complex issues and to enable sustainable development
• Brief senior managers and assist with Freedom of Information and Environmental Information Regulations request

Role Criteria:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to adapt to different audiences.
• Ability to interpret legislation/regulations and apply them to a range of practical situations/solutions.
• Capacity to work through complex processes and resolve issues to a satisfactory conclusion.
• Ability to plan, prioritise and control workload to delivering results to agreed timescales.
• Ability to engage with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent team player who recognises the importance of working relationships within the business who can

work in collaboration to develop and maintain effective relationships.

Desirable Criteria:

• A degree in an environmental, science, engineering, planning or marine-related discipline or

equivalent applied experience.

• Experience of assessing the potential impacts of marine development.
• Knowledge of marine industries -ports and marinas, marine renewable energy, aggregate extraction

etc.

• Experience of dealing with a range of stakeholders.

Brook Street are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all candidates who are veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel, and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy.As a Disability Confident Leader, and holder of the Gold Award status from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, Brook Street, as a supplier to the Public Sector Resourcing Framework (PSR), will offer you a guaranteed interview with a PSR Sourcer.Should you identify as a candidate with a disability and/or as a veteran or spouse/partner of military personnel and meet all the essential criteria for the role, we encourage you to reach out to us via the Brook Street website. Here you will find a link to register your interest and state the role that you are interested in. We are committed to engaging with you.In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates/military spouses/partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, Brook Street will interview the best candidates from within that group.