Total 2 business management project planning job vacancies in Legal / Public / Security category in Southampton, Hampshire, SO14 3EW

JMSC offers government departments and agencies a central point of UK maritime expertise and understanding to assist policy and decision making. The JMSC works internationally - with states and with key international organisations - to support information sharing, relationship development and capacity building efforts.

The key elements of JMSC are:

The National Maritime Information Centre (NMIC), which since 2010 has provided a mechanism for the UK’s civilian and military maritime and law enforcement focused organisations to fuse intelligence, data and capabilities. This maximises operational impact at home and abroad.
The Joint Maritime Operations Coordination Centre, which utilises cutting edge technology to provide 24/7 monitoring of UK waters. It can swiftly identify maritime security incidents and enable the effective coordination of the UK’s aerial and at-sea assets to respond – ensuring the safety and security of all those who use our seas.
The new JMSC Assessment capability, which will produce global strategic maritime security assessments to inform UK government and other stakeholders of threats within or emanating from the maritime domain. This also provides support to the UK sanctions regimes.
These functions are supported by the JMSC Strategy team, which includes workforce planning, programme management, financial planning and controls, and policy development.
Job description
The Joint Maritime Security Centre (JMSC) Strategy and Policy (Strat Pol) team form the core enabling function within the JMSC, providing critical services to the operational elements of the organisation.

JMSC Strat Pol is formed of three distinct sub teams:

Policy and Business Resilience (P&BR) – this team manages the business support functions for the JMSC including recruitment, the secretariat function for meetings, updates to the Risk Register and ensuring the resilience of the JMSC.
Security and Data Compliance (S&DC) – this team assures and manages the security of the JMSC and its personnel. It is comprised of Information Managers who assure data compliance and adherence to the Data Protection Act and STRAPSOs who manage access to systems.
Project Management Office and Finance (PMO&F) - this team manages various programmes of activity to increase the capability of the JMSC systems and the growth of the JMSC to full operating capacity. The team also includes Commercial and Finance, with responsibility for purchasing everything from stationery and desks to innovative technology and ensuring that Home Office policies are complied with.
The Business Resilience Lead will be accountable to the Policy and Engagement Manager within the Policy and Business Resilience team. You will be responsible for managing one direct report. You will be responsible for ensuring that the JMSC has a coherent business resilience plan by leading on the business risk register, infrastructure plan and people plans, working closely with the MOD Business Manager and wider JMSC team. You will be responsible for one direct report.

Responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to:

Ownership of the JMSC Business Continuity and Resilience function within the organisation, including premises, technology, risk management, resource planning and business resilience communications & exercising, working closely with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) Business Manager.
Maintenance of the JMSC Operational Risk Register, ensuring that all the operational risks to the Business are referenced and that the Operational Risk Register is integrated into the JMSC Strategic Risk Register (owned by the Assistant Director of Strategy and Policy).
Leading on the continuous development and management of the JMSC Performance Framework, including collating monthly reports for the Head of JMSC and their Senior Management Team. The focus of this work will be to collaborate with colleagues from across the organisation to further develop performance metric collection to enable the Senior Management Team to identify strengths and trends in delivering JMSC Services.
Working with JMSC stakeholders to collate and record all JMSC management and performance data, conducting analysis and producing meaningful reports for the Head of JMSC, the Joint Governance Board and stakeholders.
Providing secretariat support to all elements of the JMSC, except for meetings chaired by the Head of JMSC. You will need to develop a good working relationship with the Staff Officer to the Head of JMSC to ensure there is no duplication or gaps.
Procurement of stationery, equipment, and general facilities oversight, working closely with the MOD Business Manager.
Leading on the administration of JMSC recruitment, through the entirety of the process, and coordinate wider personnel matters.
Managing the Workforce Planning Officer, maintaining oversight of all Annual Hours Allowance (AHA) administration. AHA is an allowance paid to compensate employees working non-standard working patterns.
Person specification
Essential criteria

You must be able to demonstrate:

Experience of business continuity, or business resilience, and business planning.
The ability to work with functional teams to systematically identify and monitor risks to the organisation, and plan to mitigate those risks.
Experience of exercising sound judgement and decision making, utilising all available information.
Being a strong communicator, able to gain buy-in from team members and stakeholders to support business critical work.
Being self-motivated, highly organised, and efficient, and able to manage many competing priorities in a calm and appropriate manner.
The ability to work, and lead a team, independently and often at pace in busy situations to meet tight deadlines.
Excellent skills in written and verbal communication, and in presenting information to a wide and varied audience.

The Joint Maritime Security Centre (JMSC) is the UK government’s centre of excellence for maritime security. Its mission is to increase awareness and understanding of maritime security threats and enable cross-government coordination to deliver a whole-system response to mitigate them.

JMSC is a multi-agency, fused military-civil organisation with staff drawn from a host of agencies including Border Force, the Royal Navy, Counter Terrorism Policing, National Crime Agency, HM Revenue and Customs, Home Office Intelligence, the Maritime Management Organisation and HM Coast Guard. It’s responsible for ensuring the UK maintains its understanding of the maritime domain and develops the cross-government coordination frameworks to respond to threats to security, law and order, trade and commerce, and the marine environment.

JMSC offers government departments and agencies a central point of UK maritime expertise and understanding to assist policy and decision making. The JMSC works internationally - with states and with key international organisations - to support information sharing, relationship development and capacity building efforts.

The key elements of JMSC are:

The National Maritime Information Centre (NMIC), which since 2010 has provided a mechanism for the UK’s civilian and military maritime and law enforcement focused organisations to fuse intelligence, data and capabilities. This maximises operational impact at home and abroad.
The Joint Maritime Security Centre - Operations, which utilises cutting edge technology to provide 24/7 monitoring of UK waters. It can swiftly identify maritime security incidents and enable the effective coordination of the UK’s aerial and at-sea assets to respond – ensuring the safety and security of all those who use our seas.
The new JMSC Assessment capability, which will produce global strategic maritime security assessments to inform UK government and other stakeholders of threats within or emanating from the maritime domain. This also provides support to the UK sanctions regimes.
These functions are supported by the JMSC Strategy team, which includes workforce planning, programme management, financial planning and controls, and policy development.
Job description
The Joint Maritime Security Centre (JMSC) Operations Team is the operational delivery team of the JSMC and delivers maritime domain awareness and understanding as well as providing support to maritime operations.

The purpose of the Planner is to deliver both a planning role and general contribution within the JMSC Operations (Ops) environment, reporting to the Deputy Lead Planner. The Planner works as part of the JMSC Ops team that coordinates the cross-government response to maritime security incidents.

In addition to the planning function there is also a need to identify and provide awareness of emerging priorities to which JMSC Ops can contribute. The planning function includes organising and delivering multi-agency live and tabletop activities along with the maintenance of a national exercising calendar.

Person specification
Duties include but are not limited to:

Taking responsibility for delivery and working with others to achieve corporate goals in line with the planning function, including covering the roles and responsibilities of any gapped positions within the planning function as requested by the Lead Planner / Operations Pillar leadership, where trained and confident to do so.
Preparing and issuing the weekly JMSC asset disposition report.
Supporting capability trials to ensure JMSC has access to cutting edge technology.
Supporting the production, planning and delivery of multi-agency exercises in response to maritime security threats, both in the form of table-top and live exercises. This includes procurement.
Tracking Operations pillar mandatory training to provide evidence of compliance.
Providing secretariat and other support for the JMSC Stowaway Working Group.
Being prepared to support wider JMSC activity, including across the other pillars, where the planning team has capacity and they are trained and confident to do so.
Maintaining the capabilities grid in the UK/France Counter Terrorism Joint Intervention Plan.
Supporting to cross Government planning activity. Contribute to formulating response to maritime security issues and risks ensuring best asset utilisation.
Utilising in-house systems to coordinate asset response. You will be trained in and maintain skills to use in-house systems to assist in the coordination of any response to events and, in extremis, provide resilience and capacity to the operations room watchkeepers during working hours.
Essential criteria

Candidates are expected to demonstrate and/or have experience of:

A self-starter with an organised approach and the ability to prioritise and work to tight deadlines.
Working effectively and remain professional in a highly pressurised environment, with the ability to deal with changing situations and to act calmly under pressure.
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with clarity, conviction, and enthusiasm orally and in writing.
The professional behaviours and personal integrity associated with working alongside law enforcement organisations. This means acting ethically and with integrity, being able to take difficult decisions when they are needed, always doing the right thing, being impartial and honest.
An ability to develop strong stakeholder relationships, both internally and externally, and build enduring partnerships.
A good working knowledge of Microsoft Products.
An objective and analytical approach to work. Able to gather information from several sources, make a reasoned recommendation or assessment, and justify this both verbally and in writing.

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