THE MARINE SOCIETY AND SEA CADETS

Job Title: Training Centre Support Officer - SCTC Raleigh Location: HMS Raleigh, Torpoint, East Cornwall, PL11 2PD Salary: £29,000 gross per annum Job type: Full time, Permanent Closing Date: 1st December 2025 Are you a Training Centre Support Officer looking for a new opportunity? The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelong learning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential through challenge and nautical adventure and enabling seafarers and maritime professionals to realise their potential through learning and career development. Working with our employees, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a strong vision and five-year Future Ready strategy to meet the growing demand for what we provide, both for young people, seafarers and maritime professionals - and the thousands who aspire to be the sea cadets and marine professionals of the future. It is also about equipping them to achieve their potential and thrive in a rapidly changing world, while growing our charity to benefit even more people - including those from under-represented or marginalised groups. We are currently looking for a Training Centre Support Officer to join our team at HMS RALEIGH. About the role: The purpose of this role is to support the Centre Manager in managing the facility known as SCTC Raleigh which is hosted at HMS Raleigh. We operate within and as part of HMS Raleigh, this requires significant co-ordination and liaison across the wider team at HMS Raleigh. The purpose of SCTC Raleigh is to facilitate and support the delivery of cadet training for all organisations of the Royal Navy Cadet Forces. This role is responsible for facilities management and health and safety reporting to the Centre Manager. Responsibilities: To support the Centre Manager to facilitate all activity hosted at the centre Lead on arranging all logistics in support of the centre's activities Ensure the centres facilities are maintained appropriately Manage the routine health and safety records and actions for the Centre Manager Requirements: Strong administrative and organisational skills. Experience/knowledge of uniformed and/or youth organisations Experience working within the Military environment preferably Royal Navy. Can demonstrate ability to form and maintaining collaborative relationships. Ability and willingness to work evenings and weekends Benefits: 51 days annual leave per annum Hybrid working for many roles Volunteering Leave Life assurance (4x salary) Private medical insurance Generous pension (employer contribution up to 10%) Cycle to work scheme Access to the Marine Society Digital Library Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling Employee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential. Additional Information: MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer. We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC's values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire. All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo pre-employment checks including a criminal record check. Please click APPLY to be redirected to our website to complete your application. Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Cadet Training Centre Officer, Training Centre Manager, Training Manager, Development Officer, will be considered for this role.

Job Title: Maritime Engineering Manager (Shore-based) Location: Gosport, Hampshire Salary: Competitive Job type: Full-time, Permanent Closing Date: 11th January 2026. Are you an experienced Engineer looking for a new opportunity? The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is a vibrant and growing charity delivering life changing nautical adventure for young people through the Sea Cadets to give them the best possible head start in life. We also provide personal and professional development opportunities for seafarers with the Marine Society. Working with our staff, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a vision and five-year strategy to take us forward and further improve the astounding contribution already made through our work to the lives of thousands of young people and seafarers, while fully supporting our volunteers who are vital to our success. We are currently looking for an experienced maritime engineering manager to join our team. About the role: The shore-based Maritime Engineering Manager will play a key role in sustaining the MSSC's offshore vessels which provide sea-going experiences for cadets (aged 12-18) and in ensuring the safety of all personnel on board. The main purpose of the role is to provide support to the vessels' engineer officers with the engineering management and maintenance needs of MSSC's offshore vessels. Responsibilities: Providing day-to-day support in identifying defects and safety shortcomings, determining solutions, assisting in rectification or organising cost effective professional repairs at advantageous prices and obtaining replacement parts. Producing, overseeing and tracking (technically and financially) the winter maintenance work packages for the fleet. Progressive development of MSSC's Safety Management System & Electronic Planned Maintenance System, related to the technical running and management of each offshore vessel. About you: At MSSC Offshore we value attitude, experience and skills, no matter what route you have taken to build your portfolio. The following examples illustrate the type of person we are looking for, but are not exclusive. So long as you can show an equivalent level of experience and skills, and a willingness to learn more, we absolutely want to hear from you. Personal Attributes: High reliability in personal and professional standards, particularly in timekeeping, workload management and engineering standards. Confident working with a broad range of people; from briefing VIPs or educating cadets, through to assisting engineers with hands-on maintenance. Flexible and resilient, adaptable to change. Satisfactory DBS check or equivalent (arranged by MSSC if not already held). Ability and willingness to work at sea aboard MSSC vessels both during maintenance prior to the training season and as a relief engineer officer during the sailing season. Health and fitness necessary to obtain ENG1 / ML5 medical certification. Qualifications and Experience Engineer with appropriate experience and qualifications for operation up to Area Category 0 under the Small Commercial Vessel Code. Suitable examples include: MCA AEC2; Small Vessel Chief Engineer Other equivalent qualifications will be considered. Experience in both seagoing and shore support roles in the maritime sector. Areas of experience should include safety, equipment operation, maintenance, refit planning and execution. Experience using IT including third-party electronic planned maintenance management systems to support maintenance planning. Fluency with Office 365 core applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint). Evidence of effective liaison and strong working relationships with third parties, such as ship and shore staff, external authorities, suppliers and contractors. Benefits 25 working days pro rata of paid holiday per annum, plus public and bank holidays observed in England and Wales, increasing to 29 days after two years' service. Life assurance (4x salary) for those who opt to join the pension scheme. Private medical insurance. Pension (employer contribution up to 10%). Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling. Employee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential. National staff conference: All employees come together once a year to reflect on the past year and celebrate success at our offsite staff conference. This is a great opportunity to listen to employees' views, and for employees to network, share information and socialise. Please click APPLY to be redirected to our website to complete your application. Candidates with experience of; Shore-Based Marine Engineering Manager, Marine Technical Manager, Fleet Engineering Manager, Fleet Technical Manager, Maritime Technical Operations Manager will also be considered for this role.