The leading network for marine, coastal and water practitioners
OCF Jobs, News, Services & Events
Connecting to the largest ocean and coastal community
OCF provides a unique opportunity to connect with a growing community of marine practitioners. We offer you the chance to reach out and promote your job vacancies, services, training courses, conferences and publications to a targeted sector-specific audience.
We can connect you directly to our 21,000+ contacts and beyond from across the coastal, marine and water sectors. Our subscribers and followers range from new graduates to experienced experts and industry leaders.
As the CMS/OCF team, we have provided a trusted service to clients and practitioners for over twenty-five years and consistently receive very positive feedback from our clients:
“We have been constantly impressed with OCF’s professional approach, experience and dedication.” Environment Agency
“I used OCF to advertise for an important national coastal specialist role. The process was quick and easy and the advert reached all corners of the globe. I had a fantastic response with many high quality candidates to choose from ” National Trust
“Once again, using OCF Jobs provided us with a great selection of suitable candidates and we were able to fill our vacancy easily. Thank you for your fast, efficient and effective service.” Cornwall Inshore Fisheries & Conservation Authority
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How we promote you
There are three parts to our service:
- Details of your vacancy, event or service will be circulated in a direct email to thousands of industry practitioners who are subscribed to our database.
- We will further promote on our website and in our twice-weekly newsletters, which together reach many more thousands of targeted individuals every Tuesday and Thursday.
- We promote you on our social media channels using our house-style images and circulate to our followers.
Feedback
After the closing date we provide feedback on the click and open rates for both the direct mailing and the weekly publicity in our newsletters as well as the wider coverage.
Cost
Our standard price remains very competitive at £180.00 plus VAT per advert. We offer discounts for multiple adverts, and to charities, universities and first-time users. Please get in touch for details.
Bespoke services
We tailor our service to fit your needs and can provide an additional enhanced bespoke advertising campaign for events and recruitment on request.
Contact
If you would like to discuss further, please email jayne.onions@coastms.co.uk or call 07759 134801.
How to place an advert
Please provide the following:
- Download and complete the order form
- Supply logo – file format PNG, GIF or JPEG – High Resolution
- Advertisement copy and any relevant web links to the information on your website – file format Word document
- Email completed details to jayne.onions@coastms.co.uk
- We will then email you a draft for approval before sending it out. This will usually be within 2 working days of receiving your order.The main service is provided by direct mailing your advert to our contacts who have signed up to receive targeted emails.
Circulation Lists
Advertisements will be circulated to the relevant list(s). Vacancies will be circulated to the Job Vacancy list immediately and also included in the OCF/CMS Weekly Newsletters (9,500+ recipients) which provides twice-weekly exposure for the duration of the vacancy.
Events, News, tenders, reports, consultations and other advertisements will also be included in the OCF/CMS Weekly Newsletters.
| Circulation list |
Recipients |
| All Lists |
9,500+ |
| Job Vacancies |
5,700+ |
| Marine |
7,300+ |
| Water |
4,000+ |
Additional Information
Discounts
We offer 10% discount for 3+ and 20% discount for 10+ adverts. We will raise an invoice for the multiple adverts, which will be payable under the usual terms & conditions; these mailings can be circulated to suit your marketing requirements, there isn’t any deadline.
We also offer discounts to charities, universities and first-time users. Please get in touch for details.
Multiple vacancies
You can include more than one post in the one advert, we often find that adverts with multiple vacancies attract higher click & open rates.
Feedback and statistical reporting
After the closing date we provide feedback on the click and open rates for both the direct mailing and the weekly publicity in our newsletters as well as the wider coverage.
Real time testing and feedback
Try it and see; you might want to see this advertising as a trial and we’d be happy to engage with you on this and provide feedback as necessary. You might want to consider a programme of adverts for the event. We find that what you promote varies from the beginning to the days leading up to the event.
Free advice
We can provide free advice on promoting your event; on wording, approaches and timing of advertising since we have been working on this for over 200+ events that have used emailing approaches for over 25 years.
If you have any questions please email Jayne at jayne.onions@coastms.co.uk or call 07759 134801.