Job title: Navigation Specialist - 23 Month Fixed Term Appointment

Location: Taunton, Somerset

Salary: 24,597 - 28,318 with an RRA of up to 7,000 for the right candidate

Closing date: Friday 18 August 2017

Opening statement

The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) is a world-leading agency providing the most comprehensive
range of marine geospatial information across the globe. This information is supplied to commercial shipping,
defence navies and maritime organisations for the primary purpose of safe navigation and global trade efficiency.
It also supports other marine activities including economic development, environmental protection, resource
exploration and utilisation, scientific research and security and defence.

Our Navigation Specialists are experienced mariners who are responsible for maintaining and producing safe,
comprehensive and up-to-date volumes of Sailing Directions and Section IV Notice to Mariners for the Royal Navy
and commercial shipping market.

Navigation Specialists are deployed into either the Impact Analysis Group or the Publication Production team within
the Digital Products, Services and Publications Group with opportunity to interchange between teams.

Tasks, expectations/deliverables

Within the Impact Analysis Team, Navigation Specialists will undertake the following tasks:

Assess the significance of data contained within new UK and Foreign Government charts, new information
contained in Foreign Government Hydrographic Office (FGHO) Sailing Directions, photographic views and reports of
survey from HM ships and contract companies

Maintain the Sailing Directions volumes accordingly through the steady state maintenance process using desktop
publishing software

Liaise with and advise other Navigation Specialists, Production Technicians and Regional Teams within UKHO and
respond to external enquiries from customers, Harbour Masters and other authorities, both in UK and abroad

Provide information to the Terrestrial Team to support Hydrographic Instructions

Within the Publications Team, Navigation Specialists will undertake the following tasks:

Work with the Production Technicians to prepare, amend and technically edit Sailing Directions using desktop
publishing and other specialist software, for delivery to the Digital Imaging Department to meet the copy-ready
production schedule in accordance with quality documentation

Produce section IV notices for Weekly Notices to Mariners (NMs), for navigationally significant information

On a rotational basis with other Navigation Specialists in the team, act as the Section IV Editor, preparing the
weekly Section IV NMs for publication
 Support the production of Port Approach Guides, ensuring Sailing Directions material supplied is up to date,
delivered to specification and on time

As appropriate, support specification creation and pre-compilation meetings for new edition and new charts

Liaise with and advise other Navigation Specialists, Production Technicians and regional teams within the business
and respond to external enquiries from customers, Harbour Masters and other authorities, both in the UK and
abroad

Full brief of the core competencies, knowledge, skills and experience required

Civil Service Competency Framework Level 2, with particular emphasis on:

Setting Direction

Changing and Improving

Making Effective Decisions

Engaging People

Collaborating and Partnering

Building Capability for All

Delivering Results

Delivering Value for Money

Delivering at Pace

Specific Technical/Functional Skills and Experience

Recent seagoing experience, including practical experience of navigation (including the use of ECDIS/ENCs) with
appropriate supporting qualifications, e.g. Deck Officer Certificate of Competence, Royal Navy STCW 95 (Officer of
the Watch) certificate, RYA Yachtmaster

Effective communications skills, both written and oral

Practical experience in distinguishing navigationally significant information from large volumes of data presented

Ability to deal methodically with information and keep accurate records of the actions taken

Confident and competent user of the MS Office suite with the ability to learn and apply new software, including
bespoke packages
Short-list and interview

You will be short-listed and interviewed against the following criteria:

Recent seagoing experience, including practical experience of navigation (including the use of ECDIS/ENCs) with
appropriate supporting qualifications, e.g. Deck Officer Certificate of Competence, Royal Navy STCW 95 (Officer of
the Watch) certificate, RYA Yachtmaster

Competence in using MS Office and bespoke software packages

Changing and Improving

Making Effective Decisions

Delivering Value for Money

How to apply and interview process

Please prepare a competency statement, which details, with examples, how you demonstrate the core competencies,
knowledge, skills and/or experience, as set out in the short-list section, above. Your examples do not need to be work-
related.

Please limit your examples to a maximum of 250 words for each criterion and please note that additional wording, in
excess of the 250-word maximum, will be disregarded and not assessed as part of the sift.

As an employer committed to equality of opportunity, we short-list solely using information relevant to the assessment
process. Please note that your competency statement will be the only document assessed; therefore, please
ensure you provide all the necessary information within it.

Please send:

Your competency statement

Your CV this will be used in the interview process but not during short-listing

To recruitment@ukho.gov.uk by 12 noon on Friday 18 August 2017

Other information

This position is a 23-month fixed term appointment.

This is a non-reserved post and requires BPSS and SC Clearance.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS)

We guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post. By
minimum criteria we mean that the evidence you provide in your competency statement must demonstrate that
you meet the minimum pass mark, set by the short-list panel, for each criteria listed in the short-list section,
above. The short-list panel will not be made aware of any individual that has applied under GIS; this information
will be processed solely by HR, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

If you would like to apply under the GIS, please complete the GIS Declaration Form and send it to
recruitment@ukho.gov.uk, along with the required documents listed at How to apply and interview process.
Civil Service Recruitment
Selection for appointment to the Civil Service is on merit, on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in
the Civil Service Commissions Recruitment Principles

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a
complaint, please contact the Recruitment Team, United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, Admiralty Way, Taunton,
Somerset TA1 2DN.

The Civil Service Code forms part of the terms and conditions of every civil servant.

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