Executive support officer Work, Jobs in Taunton, Eng (with Salaries)

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- Full-time
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UK Hydrographic Office —Taunton
- £32,420 - £38,173 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
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Ocean Environment Scientist - Marine Biology
UK Hydrographic Office —Taunton
- £38,173 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
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- Presentation skills
- Computer skills
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- Full-time
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IC-ENC Project Delivery Officer

UK Hydrographic Office -
Taunton

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Permanent | Full-time
£38,173 a year
3 days ago

Benefits

Company pension

Qualifications

ArcGIS
Power BI
QGIS
XML
SQL
Presentation skills
SharePoint
Software testing
Requirements gathering

Full job description

Details

Reference number

465278

Salary

£38,173

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Higher Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

UKHO - Data Acquisition

Type of role

Architecture and Data
Digital
Information Technology
Planning
Project Delivery

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time

Number of jobs available

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Location

Taunton

About the job

Job summary

International Centre of Electronic National Charts (IC-ENC) is an international organisation that supports safe and consistent marine navigation by coordinating and validating Electronic Navigational Chart services for more than 50 member hydrographic offices worldwide. Working at the forefront of digital maritime standards, IC-ENC is evolving from S-57 to S-100 services and driving innovation, automation and quality across global chart production and validation.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to come and work with the international expertise within IC-ENC team as a Project Delivery Officer and make an impact through technological advances to provide increased automation and efficiency for our ENC and future S-100 marine navigation services.
IC-ENC is developing its capability from S-57 to S-100 marine navigation services for its 50+ Members worldwide.

Working in a professional fast-paced environment you will manage a complex and demanding workload, adapting to changing priorities and offer effective solutions, providing support to the IC-ENC Technical Team to maintain and enhance appropriate Technology Infrastructure, databases, and workflow applications to support delivery of IC-ENC services.

Hybrid working

This job role can be worked on a hybrid basis, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, working between the office in Taunton and remotely within the UK.

Office attendance is expected 60% of the time.

Job description

Project Management & Delivery: Apply project management principles to deliver technical change initiatives, including requirements gathering, implementation, testing, and rollout of internal improvements.

Technical Solution Design & Implementation: Collaborate with IT architects and developers to design, configure, and deploy technical solutions, ensuring integration with existing infrastructure and systems.

Stakeholder & Vendor Coordination: Manage relationships with internal stakeholders and external service providers, supporting procurement activities, facilitating meetings, and ensuring deliverables are met.

System & Service Support: Provide first-line technical support to IC-ENC regional offices and member organizations, monitor services, escalate issues to providers, and assist third-party specialists as needed.

Documentation, Standards & Compliance: Translate business requirements into user stories and functional specifications, maintain technical documentation, and develop an understanding of IHO standards such as S-57 and S-100.

Automation, Data & Analysis Support: Identify opportunities for workflow automation, support tooling improvements, and assist with data handling, validation, and analysis to inform decision-making.

Other tasks as set by IC-ENC General Manager and management team to deliver activities within the IC-ENC annual Work Plan.

Person specification

Proven experience of managing change, gathering requirements and of testing solutions/tools against requirements/specifications.
Experience in a project delivery role or similar, working to deadlines bringing tasks to a conclusion.
A self-motivated and analytical individual with the ability to make effective decisions.
Experience of technological development and improvement including software testing.
An understanding or experience with S-57, S-58, S-100 IHO Standards and S-100 based product types.
Familiarity with general data concepts, with the ability to work effectively with structured data (e.g. SQL and XML).
Good working knowledge of GIS software packages (such as ArcGIS, QGIS, Safe FME), and experience with similar software.
Experience of Microsoft tools (including SharePoint and Power Platform tools such as: PowerBI and CoPilot) and their capabilities and applying these to new business processes.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Changing and Improving
Delivering at Pace
Communicating and Influencing

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £38,173, UK Hydrographic Office contributes £11,058 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

At the UK Hydrographic Office, it's very important to us that our people feel valued.

We offer a huge range of benefits such as training and development, well-being support, flexible/ homeworking, a fantastic state of the art building, high spec equipment, and so much more.

See our attached Candidate Information Pack for more details.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

How to Apply:

When you click "Apply Now" at the bottom of this page, you will be required to attach your anonymised CV and give a supporting statement of 500 words on the Experience criteria below.

Timeline:

Advert Closes for applications: 28th June 2026
Shortlisting: Week commencing: 6th July 2026
Interviews: Week commencing: 20th July 2026

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.

Sift/Shortlist Criteria:

All applications are processed anonymously. You will be short-listed against the following criteria - assessed by both your anonymised CV and personal statement.

Experience:

Proven experience of managing change, gathering requirements and of testing solutions/tools against requirements/specifications (lead criteria)
Experience of technological development and improvement including software testing.
Familiarity with general data concepts, with the ability to work effectively with structured data (e.g. SQL and XML).
Good working knowledge of GIS software packages (such as ArcGIS, QGIS, Safe FME), and experience with similar software.

All the above criteria will be assessed from your CV and Personal Statement.

Interview Criteria:

You will be interviewed against the following criteria:

Experience:-

Proven successful experience of managing change, gathering requirements and of testing solutions/tools against requirements/specifications (lead criteria and assessed by a presentation)

Civil Service Behaviours (SEO Level)

Changing and Improving
Delivering at pace
Communicating and Influencing

See here for further information: Success Profiles: Civil Service Behaviours

Process:

Single Stage Interview via MS TEAMS. You will be contacted to book a suitable slot if you are shortlisted (see our Candidate Pack for further information)
Interview will be with a panel of no more than 3 people and will last approximately 45 minutes. If selected for interview, you will be required to give a 10 minute presentation as noted above. The title of the presentation will be provided in your Invitation to Interview.

Onboarding Checks:

In the event you are offered a role with us, you will be required to go through Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks which will include Employment and Right to Work Checks. Please see our attached Candidate Pack for further details and Terms.

Residency Requirements:

BPSS non reserved

This is a Ministry of Defence non-reserved post and is open to UK, British Commonwealth, and European Economic Area nationals. Successful applicants will be required to pass the Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) and will therefore need to provide evidence if they have resided outside of the UK for a period of 6 months or longer within the last 3 years. This is not a bar to employment, but a successful applicant will be required to provide sufficient evidence to allow the UKHO to conduct meaningful background checks. Please contact the recruitment team on the email address below if you have any concerns regarding this.

Please note, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.

Due to the secure nature of our work, there may be eligibility restrictions if you hold dual nationality or are not a British Citizen. We will consider each application on a case-by-case basis. We will ask you in our application form to confirm your place of birth and details of any dual or previous nationalities.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

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Recruitment team

Email : [email protected]

Further information

The Departments recruitment processes are underpinned by the requirement of selection for appointment based on merit, open and fair competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners Recruitment Principles, details of which can be found at http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact [email protected] If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can further contact the Civil Service Commission at: civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk or view more details at http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk

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