Assistant Fishery Officer Job at Scottish Government
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Applications are invited for an A3 Assistant Fishery Officer post within the Fishery Office in Stornoway and Buckie. This provides an exciting and unique opportunity to work in a valuable and high-priority area within Marine Scotland.
Marine Scotland Compliance is responsible for deterring and detecting illegal activities through effective compliance and enforcement arrangements. We employ Marine staff that are responsible for the crewing of Marine Scotland Compliance's three Marine Protection vessels and Coastal Inspection staff, who make up the Sea Fisheries Inspectorate. The Coastal staff are located at 18 Fishery Offices around the coast of Scotland and at the Registration of Buyers and Sellers (RBS) Unit, which is based in Aberdeen. The Compliance Headquarters is based in Victoria Quay, Edinburgh where the UK Fisheries Monitoring Centre is based. Additional information about the MS Compliance can be found on our website - MS Compliance.
The Assistant Fishery Officer is the first point of contact for the public and other government departments, stakeholders and as such should have knowledge of Marine Scotland’s Aims and Objectives and have the knowledge and ability to be able to put the caller in touch with the correct person.
As Assistant Fishery Officer you will also be required to assist the Senior Fishery Officer/Fishery Officer with inspection duties both on the pier and on-board fishing vessels and accompany Warranted Officers in other inspection tasks including visits to premises and landing creeks.
The role offers an opportunity to join a small team, providing admin support to the fishery officers with the prospect of being able to advance to the role of fishery officer through dedicated on the job training.
- Dealing with internal and external enquiries
- Updating and maintaining paper and electronic files
- Data input and analysis of Compass and VMS
- Collating materials
- Organising and issuing letters and papers to Industry
- Assisting in inspection duties
- Input Inspection data onto MCSS
Competencies:
Self Awareness
Team Work
Customer Service
Information Management
Communications and Engagement
Qualifications:Qualifications:
Throughout the first 12 months the candidate will be expected to gain a relevant SVQ qualification in Business Administration. Support will be provided by a qualified assessor who will work with the successful candidate on a monthly basis. Time will be given to work on your qualification, this includes delivering 2 presentations.
Essential Criteria:
1. Good communications skills written and oral
2. The ability to work with limited supervision.
3. The ability to work as part of a small team
4. The ability to arrange and prioritise workload.
Location: Fishery Office, Stornoway, HS1 2XX/Fishery Office, Buckie, AB56 4BT
Interview and Assessment: Dates to be confirmed
HOW TO APPLY & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
You must fully complete and submit an online application via the website before the closing date using evidence based examples to demonstrate your knowledge/skills (300 words). Remember, your answers should be clear, concise and reflect what actions you undertook. You may want to use the STAR(R) approach to respond to each criterion.
Additional information:
The post is a full-time role, but staff with different working patterns are invited to apply, and we will assess proposed working patterns against the business requirements for this post.
For information regarding this post please contact nicol.strang@gov.scot
Important Information Regarding Interviews:
In recognition of ongoing measures and guidance in response to Covid-19, a decision has been taken that all interviews will be conducted in a virtual/remote setting.
All applicants must ensure that they have a suitable space to complete the virtual interview via MS Teams and ensure that Wi-Fi/Broadband capacity will be sufficient to carry both audio and video feeds to undertake the interview.
Scottish Government's ambition is to be a world leading, diverse employer where people can be themselves at work. We want to help you demonstrate your full potential whatever type of assessment is used. If you require any adjustments to our recruitment process, please let us know via scottishgovernmentrecruitment@gov.scot
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