Careers at Sea Ambassadors

The Merchant Navy Training Board, with support from The Marine Society and Sea Cadets and Nautilus International, have set up the Careers at Sea Ambassadors Volunteer programme.The programme enables those within the Shipping Industry (seafarers, ex-seafarers, shipping company staff), who are keen to raise awareness of the Merchant Navy and its excellent career opportunities in their local area, to have access to up-to-date, professional and quality resources.

Who are Careers at Sea Ambassadors?

Ambassadors are volunteers from the shipping industry who are interested in meeting young people at school or through youth groups in their local area to raise their awareness of Merchant Navy career opportunities and to encourage them to find out more about the education and training available to them.  Ambassadors should ideally already have links with schools, colleges or youth groups and will be expected to organise and arrange their own visits.  The MNTB would hope that Ambassadors will make a minimum of two to three school visits a year.

If you are interested in volunteering as a Careers at Sea Ambassador please click here.

What do Careers at Sea Ambassadors do?

Ambassadors can attend schools, youth groups or other local community groups and deliver the Careers at Sea presentation as an individual talk or at a special careers event or within a classroom setting ie PSHE/Careers lessons. There are many ways in which an Ambassador can start spreading the word about the Merchant Navy and we hope that by using the presentation and resources provided this will open up more opportunities.

All Ambassadors will have access to the presentation that contains video clips, quiz questions and exciting and entertaining information about the Merchant Navy and the careers, education and training opportunities available and how to access them. The presentation itself is very flexible and can be adapted to suit the audience and the ambassador.

The key messages about the Merchant Navy that are promoted through the presentation are:-

• The Merchant Navy is of vital economic importance to the UK economy and to our everyday lives
• There are world class education and training programmes for navigation (deck), engineering and electro-technical roles with a fully paid for degree, National Diploma or National Certificate plus a salary/training allowance
• There are unequalled travel opportunities with the chance to travel the world at someone else's expense
• The chance to gain exciting responsibility at an early age, with excellent salary prospects
• Stimulating and varied work using the latest technology on a wide range of modern hi-tech ships
• There is a varied range of professional occupations ashore and in the wider maritime sector for those with seafaring expertise and certification – including ship’s surveyor, shore based ship manager, ship broker, technical superintendent, maritime lawyer.

If you would like to request a visit from an Ambassador to deliver the Careers at Sea Presentation please click here.