Senior Marine Planner
Salary: £40,667
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Job grade: Senior Executive Officer, SEO (N)
Contract type: Permanent
Type of role: Analytical, Policy, Social Research
Working pattern: Full-time, Job share, Part-time
Location: Bristol, Newcastle-upon-Tyne or York
Closing date: 11:55 pm on Sunday 16th November 2025
Job description
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
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.
We are the independent regulator for England’s seas, professionally delivering service-focussed outcomes for our customers.
We are a team of around 500 people and combine our hubs in Newcastle upon Tyne, Bristol, Preston, York, and London with a local presence around the English coastline in Brixham, Beverley, Harwich, Hastings, Lowestoft, North Shields, Hayle, Plymouth, Poole, Portsmouth, Scarborough, Shoreham, and Whitehaven.
More information about our work is on the GOV.UK website and you can read the MMO’s Story here.
This is a really exciting time to join the MMO as we become an independent coastal state, embedding new repatriated functions and services with an increased focus on the protection and enhancing of the marine environment.
Senior Marine Planners lead and contribute to the development and delivery of marine plans in England. The role will include understanding and analysing relevant evidence, including national and local policy, and integrating stakeholder views. Each Senior Marine Planner will undertake marine plan developmental work by contributing to the associated workstreams and acting on lessons learnt to support the marine planning process. Reporting to a Marine Planning Manager, the role holder will lead a theme from the economy, environment, or social groupings, and within the group lead the development and engagement for at least one sector. You will provide appropriate leadership and management to marine planners within workstreams that contribute to the marine planning programme.
You will work closely with colleagues within and outside of the MMO, engaging with a wide range of stakeholders to include industry, other sectors and members of the public, ensuring that their contributions are considered in an inclusive and appropriate manner.
We are recruiting for one Senior Executive Officer (SEO) Senior Marine Planner role.
The role focus will be either:
- to lead all forms of data and analysis with a focus on spatial mapping tools (GIS), data analysis, collaboration, databases and software
- to lead monitoring and evaluation of marine plans, including reporting to Parliament every 3 years on the progress of marine plans
For more details and to apply please refer to Civil Service Jobs:
Senior Marine Planner – ( Ref : 6278 ) – Civil Service Jobs – GOV.UK
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