Marketing and Communications Officer

Ocean Conservation Trust Ltd; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - GBP 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading conservation charity in Plymouth seeks a skilled Marketing & Communications Officer to develop impactful marketing strategies. The role involves content creation, media engagement, and collaboration across departments to enhance fundraising and public awareness. Candidates should have relevant experience in marketing or communications, ideally within a conservation context, and possess a positive, can-do attitude. This position offers a competitive salary of £26,000 – £29,000, along with benefits including training and staff discounts.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Continuous training

Life assurance

Staff discounts

Day off on your birthday

Flexible work from home opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in Marketing or Communications roles.
• Desirable background in conservation or charities.
• Positive attitude and capacity for learning.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver marketing and communication plans.
• Support fundraising and promote visitor attraction.
• Collaborate with departments and stakeholders on campaigns.

Skills

Marketing experience

Communications experience

Storytelling skills

Content creation

Media engagement

Job description

Marketing & Communications Officer

We are the Ocean Conservation Trust (OCT), a global Ocean conservation charity working towards a vision of a healthy Ocean for all. From our base at the National Marine Aquarium (NMA) in Plymouth, UK, we deliver conservation at scale through three interconnected pillars: Ocean Habitats, Ocean Advocacy, and Ocean Experiences. We believe that connecting people with the Ocean is key to driving behaviour change and catalysing systemic action for marine recovery.

This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled and purpose-driven Marketing & Communications Officer to join our passionate and committed team. Reporting to the Marketing & Communications Manager, you will develop and deliver the marketing and some of the communication plans and activities across the breadth of OCT’s work.

You’ll support the Marcoms Manager and Head of Advocacy and Engagement, bringing ideas across our OCT programmes that build our profile, generate income via our events, experiences and Learning team, support fundraising, promote the role of our visitor attraction, and amplify the impact of our Ocean conservation work. This role focuses on story-telling and content creation, adapting our key messages to our diverse audiences, driving media engagement and communicating across multiple channels.

As your role will work collaboratively with many departments and stakeholders within the OCT, you will be familiar with tailoring messaging and flexing your ways of working with the relevant department heads and team members to develop and deliver campaigns and activities in a timely manner, some of which also convert into income for the charity.

You’ll be able to demonstrate experience within Marketing or Communications roles. Having experience within conservation or charities would be desirable. You’ll be passionate about our cause, with a positive, can-do attitude and capacity for learning.

You’ll work Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm based at the National Marine Aquarium, in Plymouth. There will be occasions when you’re needed to work weekends and bank holidays to meet business needs, where you will be eligible for TOIL. There may be opportunity for flexibility to work from home on occasion, fitting around work priorities and other team members.

We offer a competitive salary, continuous training, life assurance, staff discounts and a day off on your birthday and the opportunity to work in an excellent working environment.

For more information about the role, please download the Job Description and Person Spec.

Salary £26,000 – £29,000 dependent on experience

Closing Date: 9am Friday 20th February 2026.

In line with current legislation all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. As part of the recruitment process, you will be asked to provide documented evidence of eligibility in the form of a passport, birth certificate or a visa share code.

The OCT operates an Equality and Diversity Policy and is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. All applications will be judged solely on merit, however we particularly welcome applications from groups currently under represented in the workforce.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found

Only candidates invited for interview will be contacted.