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We have vacancies for Senior Geospatial Specialists (formerly Senior Cartographers) across Operations and Production teams. These roles are being advertised collectively as we move towards a resourcing model that enables greater flexibility to rotate staff across teams where there is comparable skills and capability requirements, benefitting the development of the individual and the business.

We are looking for a supportive team player who is also able to work with a high level of autonomy and responsibility. You will have strong analytical skills and the ability to work methodically in order to solve technical issues. You will have the confidence to engage with a range of customers and stakeholders both internal and external to the UKHO to achieve positive outcomes.

Our Marketing Communications team is responsible for defining the organisation’s core marketing strategies and developing and implementing product positioning and ‘go to market’ plans. The team are high performers with a passion for marketing, and you would be involved in everything from creating, planning and implementing digitally-optimised content, using a range of platforms (including web, digital advertising, social media, film and email marketing) to reporting on analytics.

The purpose of the role is to contribute to Key Performance Measure 1 through the compilation, updating and delivery of Situational Awareness products for our Defence Customer as agreed in the annual Service Definition Annex (SDA) within the Defence Hydrographic Programme.

The purpose of this role is to deliver our outputs as agreed yearly with the Defence Customer, primarily through the specification and verification of Situational Awareness Products. In this role, this is achieved by:

• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders, including UKHO Ocean Environment (OE),Scientific Analysis Group (SAG) teams, DGDMT, and RN customer/user groups to coordinate provision of data/information to ensure it meets customer requirements.
• Specifying and validating Marine Environment (ME) products in line with agreed deliverables. Careful management of workflows and planning of resource between TP team members and OE SMEs is required to ensure that no conflicts occur in data delivery.