Workforce Planning Officer - Fareham, United Kingdom - Maritime and Coastguard Agency

Maritime and Coastguard Agency

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Fareham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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- £31,119

Advertised salary is inclusive of a base salary of £28,119 and up to £3,000 of additional allowances which includes: Rotating shift £2,000, Public holidays & weekend working £1,000.

Job grade:

Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
MCA
His Majesty's Coastguard
Type of role:
Administration / Corporate Support
Operational Delivery
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
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Job summary:

Are you looking for an opportunity to work collaboratively with wide range of colleague at all levels?

Do you have a high attention to detail and enjoy working with data sets?

If so, we are looking for a Workforce Planning officer to join us at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) and we'd love to hear from you**The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) implements the government's maritime safety policy in the United Kingdom and works to prevent the loss of life and occurrence of pollution on the coast and at sea.

Safer lives. Safer Ships. Cleaner Seas._

Our vision is to be a world-leading organisation, accelerating the transition to sustainable shipping with non-negotiable safety standards. We put our people, our customers and our planet at the heart of everything we do.

Job description:

His Majesty Coastguard (HMCG) is the operational arm of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency with responsibility for 6 key functions: Search and Rescue, Pollution Response, Vessel Traffic Management, Maritime Safety, Maritime Security and Emergency and Disaster Management.

There are three delivery disciplines within HM Coastguard:

Maritime and Aeronautical Operations, which both task resources and coordinate activities from an operations room environment, and together form HMCG Network Operations, and; Coastal Operations, which manages resources and service provision on the coast.

This role is part of Network Operations.

As the Workforce Planning Officer, it will be your responsibility for contributing to the planning, scheduling and managing of staff numbers and competency levels across the HMCG National Network, aligning operational staff numbers during a period of duty with agreed staffing levels, perceived operational risk and likely demand.

We are looking for a motivated individual to join our Programme Workforce Planning Team.

Our team is responsible for ensuring that we have adequate and capable resource in place to manage the HMCG network and support senior operation staff make informative decisions.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven and motivated individual to join the newly created Workforce Planning Team, here at the MCA.

It will be your role to not only support but work closely with the Workforce Planning Manager to create and implement new processes, giving you autonomy and the chance to bring ideas to life.

Your responsibilities include but are not limited to:

As part of the HMCG Workforce Planning Team, contributing to the planning, scheduling and deploying of sufficient staff across the 11 HMCG Rescue Coordination Centres (RCCs) to ensure that staffing meets or preferably exceeds the Recommended Staffing Level, and that the national network at all times has the appropriate spread and depth of operational numbers and competence to effectively meet its mandated functions and match operational demand.
Analysing operational and workforce planning data to inform decision making, and presenting findings in a clear and understandable manner, both in meetings and in written reports, and proactively identifying, highlighting and mitigating periods of emergent risk to the network, escalating those risks as necessary.
Receiving and deciding upon (grades AO to SEO) operational staff absence requests in accordance with leave policies, network data and network management guidance, in a timely manner and with impartial, objective communicated rationale.
Designing, maintaining and improving upon on administrative and process pathways that will ensure the centralised workforce planning remains efficient, effective, flexible and responsive to the needs of the national network.

For further information about the role and responsibilities, please see the attached role profile.

Person specification:

About You

To be successful, you will need to have experience with workforce planning, resource deployment, or scheduling within an operational delivery environment.

You will be confident and have previous experience of using data sets to make informed decisions.

You will have excellent interpersonal skills to build and maintain positive relationships at all levels across the agency.

You will be extremely organised with the capability to work with complexity, prioritise tasks and manage wor