Maritime Advisor

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 team. If 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.

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 to share knowledge providing the mariners’ perspective on New Charts, New Editions and new chart schemes at specification stage.

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.

Alongside your salary of £31,213, UK Hydrographic Office contributes £9,042 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. 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.

Please submit your application through Civil Service Jobs. You will be short-listed against set criteria.

Please read all criteria in detail and tailor your application to these requirements.